Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy in Omaha
At Pelvic Wellness Physical Therapy, we specialize in pelvic floor physical therapy in Omaha, helping individuals overcome pain, dysfunction, and movement limitations so they can feel more comfortable and confident in their bodies.
Our approach goes beyond symptom relief. We assess how your pelvic floor works with the rest of your body, including strength, mobility, and movement patterns. This allows us to create a personalized, one-on-one treatment plan designed for lasting results.
Conditions We Treat
Pregnancy & Postpartum
We support women through pregnancy and postpartum recovery, helping manage pelvic pain, SI joint discomfort, low back pain, urinary symptoms, and core weakness so you can feel strong and supported.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
We support women through pregnancy and postpartum recovery, helping manage pelvic pain, SI joint discomfort, low back pain, urinary symptoms, and core weakness so you can feel strong and supported.
Birth Preparation
Our birth prep sessions help prepare your body for labor and delivery through movement, positioning, and education designed to support better outcomes and smoother recovery.
Birth Preparation
Our birth prep sessions help prepare your body for labor and delivery through movement, positioning, and education designed to support better outcomes and smoother recovery.
Fertility Optimization
As a Certified Mercier Therapist, Dr. Nicole provides specialized care to improve pelvic organ mobility, circulation, and function to support natural fertility and complement medical treatments.
Pelvic Pain
We treat pelvic pain in people of all genders, including pain in the hips, abdomen, low back, and pelvic region. Pelvic pain can be related to conditions like interstitial cystitis or endometriosis, or may develop without a clear cause. Our focus is on identifying and treating the root issue. Shockwave Therapy is often utilized in instances of stubborn or chronic pelvic pain.
Male Pelvic Health
We treat men with pelvic floor conditions including pain, urinary dysfunction, bowel issues, and sexual dysfunction. We also help support recovery after surgery and address persistent symptoms with targeted pelvic floor physical therapy.
Bowel & Bladder Dysfunction
The pelvic floor plays an important role in bowel and bladder function. We treat urinary urgency, frequency, incontinence, and painful urination, along with bowel concerns such as constipation, IBS, and fecal incontinence.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
At our Omaha clinic, we treat pelvic organ prolapse by improving pelvic floor strength, coordination, and support. Treatment focuses on reducing symptoms, improving function, and helping you return to daily activities without feeling limited.
Sexual Dysfunction
We help men and women in Omaha dealing with sexual dysfunction, including painful intercourse, changes in arousal, and decreased satisfaction. Pelvic floor dysfunction is often a contributing factor, and pelvic floor physical therapy can help restore comfort, function, and confidence.
We offer Shockwave Therapy at our Omaha clinic, which can be helpful in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Hip & Low Back Pain
Many patients we see in Omaha for persistent hip or low back pain have underlying pelvic floor involvement. If previous physical therapy has not fully resolved your symptoms, addressing pelvic floor function may be the missing piece for long-term relief.
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Treatment Techniques
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Manual therapy involves the PT using hands-on pressure and massage, either externally or internally, on the muscles of the pelvis. The purpose of manual therapy is to improve blood flow, relax and stretch muscles, or improve the health of the area.
This approach may also utilize certain tools such as cupping or instrument assisted massage to get muscles back into a healthy state.
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Pelvic floor exercises can be used to relax tight muscles or tighten loose muscles, depending on each patient’s specific needs. Ultimately, the goal of these exercises is to restore the strength or mobility of the muscles while giving the patient greater control over their function.
Exercises for areas such as the abdomen, hips and low back may also be part of treatment, as these areas impact what is happening at the pelvic floor.
Your therapist will work with you in-person on specific exercises for your symptoms. You will then have a home exercise program where you will complete these independently.
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Most patients seek help when they become limited in their daily activities by weakness or pain. Functional movement training works on the coordination and neuromuscular control of the body to return to those daily activities from which you are limited. It does not focus on strengthening just one muscle group at a time, but rather real-life scenarios in which you are calling on your body to utilize multiple muscles and coordination to complete.
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Extracorporal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is a non-invasive treatment in Omaha designed to restore pelvic health, improve function, and support long-term healing.
At Pelvic Wellness Omaha, we use advanced extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) to help patients reduce pain, improve blood flow, and return to the activities they love.
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Neuromuscular re-education is a way to retrain the brain and the muscles to work in a more coordinated fashion for optimal functioning. Oftentimes when weakness or pain arises, this is due to muscles not firing properly or with the inaccurate amount of strength. We work with you to restore function of your brain and muscle relationship.
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Myofascial release is a manual therapy technique that focuses on myofascial tissue. Myoascial tissue surrounds and connects your internal organs and muscles. The goal of myofascial release is to loosen and stretch this fascia so the structure can move more freely and restore motion.
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We utilize dry needling when deemed necessary and upon patient consent for a variety of conditions. Dry needling is a technique where a fine needle penetrates a muscular trigger point, fascial tissue or scar tissue. This technique can help to relax muscles, help muscles fire more optimally, improve fascial mobility and improve scar mobility.
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Mercier Therapy is a deep organ visceral manipulation technique used for fertility optimization or pelvic pain conditions such as endometriosis, PCOS, painful menstrual cycles, or pelvic pain related to c-section, previous pelvic or abdominal surgery, or sexual or birth trauma.
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Your internal organs (viscera) are surrounded by connective tissue that holds them in place in the body. Healthy connective tissue should move easily to allow organs to slide by each other when you move your torso throughout your day.
Visceral manipulation is a gentle, hands-on manual therapy technique used to help your internal organs glide smoothly within your body. Your physical therapist can use this technique to treat abdominal pain, constipation, cramps, and other problems.
When this connective tissue throughout your abdomen and pelvis is congested or inflamed, this can create visceral discomfort or dysfunction and can lead to restricted movement and pain in other parts of the body.
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Nicole has training in pilates for rehabilitation. She utilizes this as one treatment technique among others. If you desire to begin pilates or are currently in pilates and having pelvic floor symptoms, we can help guide you on how to properly integrate Pilates into your treatment.
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Correct function of the pelvic floor is essential for both bowel and bladder function. Biofeedback is a medical technology used in pelvic floor therapy that helps the brain and body re-establish healthy coordination patterns. Computer sensors are used to measure activity of the pelvic floor muscles while a screen gives live visual feedback as to what the pelvic floor muscles are doing. This is a non-invasive technique that helps the patient learn how to properly contract and relax the pelvic floor, as well as properly push for bowel movements. We often utilize this in treatment of pediatric pelvic floor conditions.