Bladder Physical Therapy Near Grand Rapids

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Female patient seated, talking to bladder physical therapist in Grand Rapids who is holding model of the pelvis showing the pelvic floor muscles and how bladder physical therapy can help retrain the bladder.

If you are looking for Bladder Physical Therapy near Grand Rapids, you have found the right place.

Are you tired of bladder problems? Frustrated and uncertain about what is going on and how to get it better? Have you tried kegels or other at-home solutions and find this problem just doesn’t change? If this sounds like you, we have natural, effective bladder physical therapy solutions to your issues. We are Purple Mountain Physical Therapy, a specialty pelvic health, bladder, bowel, pelvic pain and TM joint physical therapy clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our PTs offer in-person and remote consultations to men, women and kids who have bladder or bowel problems. If you are interested to learn more about our PT, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

Our patients travel from all over Michigan and surrounding states to receive their treatment with us because we have been doing this for years and our comprehensive and advanced treatment methods work.

We enjoy helping people overcome all bladder problems. When you work with our physical therapists for your bladder PT, you will receive care from providers devoted to understanding how to treat simple to complex bladder conditions. We have advanced post-doctoral training specific to the needs of pediatric, women’s health and men’s bladder condition. Each population has unique needs to solve their bladder problems and our PTs will customize your treatment based on what you require. If you are interested to learn more about our PT, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

Bladder Physical Therapy is Natural and Works to Improve Your Strength, Bladder Function, Posture, Core Engagement, Breathing and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Some of our patients have tried medications for things like overactive bladder and they don’t like the idea of being on a medication; especially one that is costly, may cause memory issues or leads to constant dry mouth or constipation. Other patients are considering surgery to provide a bladder lift, but they know that surgery is a big deal and may not provide lasting results. Our patients come to us looking for natural, effective solutions for their problem and most of them understand that physical therapy offers this. Reach out to us here if you would like to learn more.

In contast to medical options, bladder physical therapy uses natural, non-invasive methods to bring your bladder problem back to a state of homeostasis.

Our natural remedies for bladder incontinence, pain, frequency and urgency and other problems give you long-term results and use the power of your own body to resolve your problems. The treatment we provide addresses your muscles, fascia, breathing, nervous system, spine and bladder control center to help you. Most of our patients leave appointments and tell us they feel so much better and more hopeful. This work is rewarding for us. If you’d like to connect with our team, call 616-516-4334 or contact us here.

We use pelvic floor muscle training, corrective exercise, movement & posture retraining, manual therapies (to your spine, hips, thighs, abdomen or pelvic floor), heart rate variability training, bladder calming techniques and more to improve your bladder control and function.

If you are interested in natural treatmens for your bladder problems and would like to work with our pelvic PTs for bladder physical therapy treatment (offered in-person in Grand Rapids, with telehealth or a remote consultation for those who quality), call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or reach out to us here.

Our Bladder Physical Therapists in Grand Rapids or via Telehealth will Provide You Comprehensive, Whole-Body Treatments Designed to Restore Bladder Function and Control.

The whole-body care that we offer is more comprehensive than our patients have received elsewhere. Because of our advanced training, we understand that the bladder functions within the system of you entire body and treating your entire spine, abdomen, hips, movement patterns, bladder, nervous system and strength is important to recover bladder function. If you are tired of your bladder problems and are wanting a natural solution, that improves your overall health, strength, back pain, and pelvic floor dysfunction, our bladder physical therapy offers you this. Getting started is easy: just call our office to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff members. During that conversation, we like to learn a bit about what is going on with your bladder to determine if our bladder physical therapy could help you. We also like to answer your questions and explain what to expect in PT. We offer in-person bladder physical therapy, telehealth visits or remote consultations for those who qualify. Call 616-516-4334 to have this conversation or submit your questions here.

What Kinds of Bladder Issues does Pelvic Floor Bladder Physical Therapy Help?

Our pelvic PTs treat all ranges and types of bladder problems from simple to complex. Because we specialize in bladder physical therapy, we have advanced training beyond our doctoral degrees that allows us to provide comprehensive and helpful bladder physical therapy treatments so we can help restore your bladder function. While some patients come to us with more straight-forward issues such as stress urinary incontinence, many of our patients have combined issues of stress incontinence with urinary frequency and urgency and low back pain. Our PTs can help you. Reach out to us here or call 616-516-4334 to learn more.

The bladder should be able to quietly fill up and hold urine until it reaches a point of needing to empty, contract to empty when you are using the toilet and be quiet, without pain between urinations.

Our patients have problems somewhere along that bladder filling, holding, emptying journey. If you are interested to learn more about our PT, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or reach out to us here. If you are wondering what kind of bladder conditions we treat, here is an abbreviated list:

Nocturia, a problem of waking at night to pee.

Urinary urgency and frequency

Interstitial cystitis (bladder pain syndrome)

Endometriosis-related bladder problems

Stress urinary incontinence (leakage with laugh, cough, movement, jumping or sneez

Post-partum bladder control problems and overactive bladder symptoms.

Pelvic organ prolapse that contributes to bladder problems, such as incontinence, split stream, recurrent urinary tract infections

Recurrent urinary tract infections, especially when related to pelvic floor dysfunction

Post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence. Or following prostate radiation treatments

Constant urge to urinate, lower abdominal pain or bladder spasms.

Neurogenic bladder and difficulty starting their urinary stream

The kids we treat often have constipation, bedwetting or daytime loss of urine (enuresis).

Does Bladder Physical Therapy Work?

Yes. There is high quality evidence from a Cochrane Review, the leading organization that looks at all published research and summarizes the findings, that bladder physical therapy that includes pelvic floor muscle training (which our PTs teach you!) helps stress urinary incontinence and other types of urinary incontinence. Our experience has found that creating the proper treatment program that includes whole-body movement retraining and addresses pelvic floor muscle dysfunction is important to getting you results. This is why we use exercise, balance retraining, postural correction, biofeedback, hands-on treatments and more to get you results. If you are interested to learn more about our PT, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

So, You Offer Bladder Physical Therapy in Grand Rapids or with a Remote Consultation? I’ve never head of this type of PT, what makes you different than other physical therapists?

Our physical therapists specificially specialize in treating pelvic health conditions for women, men and kids. We have advanced training and considerable experience in this field. We treat bladder, bowel, prolapse, pregnancy and postpartum problems, chronic pelvic pain, SIJ pain, coccy pain (tailbone), endometriosis, Pudendal neuralgia, sciatica, all bladder problems, prostate related bladder issues and more. We are also fully trained and experienced orthopedic physical therapists, which provides us the ability to give you whole-body care. The pelvic floor muscles line the base of the pelvis and are impacted by all spine and leg movements, which is why we work on your whole body to improve bladder conditions. For more information about our bladder physical therapy, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or reach out to us here.

What we do is commonly called “pelvic floor physical therapy” and the speciality that our PTs have at Purple Mountain PT may be called by a number of terms, such as:

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapists
Pelvic Health Physical Therapists
Bladder Physical Therapists
Pelvic Physical Therapist
Women’s Health Physical Therapist
Specialists in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Pediatric Bladder and Bowel Physical Therapist

All of these labels simply let you know that we are Doctors of Physical Therapy who have completed advanced post-doctoral training specific to pelvic health, which involves bladder, bowel, intimacy, pain and prolapse related issues.

At Purple Mountain PT because we specialize in bladder physical therapy in-person in Grand Rapids, via telehealth or a remote consultation, we offer difficult-to-find expertise and treatment methods to help your bladder. Our clinic provides you a private, comfortable place to receive your one-on-one treatments with your PT. Every visit is upto 55 minutes in length and may include a combination of nervous system calming, pelvic floor therapy, exercises, manual therapy, alignment corrections or other therapeutic methods. As pelvic health physical therapy specialists, we have knowledge about all the areas of the body. This is because the pelvic floor, bladder and bowel have connections to the hips, spine, thighs, calves and feet, shoulder blades, diaphragm, rib cage and thoracic spine. Therefore, a bladder physical therapist is truly an expertly trained orthopedic physical therapist who knows the specifics of how to help your bladder. If you are interested to learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or ask a question here.

Bladder physical therapy will help optimize your bladder’s ability to fill up, hold urine without leaking, empty and have no pain!

Our patients come to us with problems related to any portion of the bladder function. Common complaints we treat include

Stress urinary incontinence: the involuntary loss of urine when laughing, coughing, sneezing or exercising
Urge urinary incontinence: the involuntary loss of urine because you cannot get to the bathroom soon enough
Mixed urinary incontinence: you have loss of urine that might involve both stress and urge incontinence
Insensible urinary incontinence: Loss of urine simply happens, not necessary related to any activities or having a full bladder
Urinary retention: you cannot empty your bladder at all. Or you can only partially empty your bladder. You may need to self catheterize
Urinary frequency: You need to urinate more often than every 2-4 hours
Urinary urgency: You experience sudden urges to urinate and cannot hold it long
Nocturia: A person wakes up at night to urinate. This disrupts sleep.
Painful urination: You feel pain anywhere in your abdomen or pelvis before, during or after peeing.
Frequent urinary tract infections: You keep getting infections and don’t know why. We find you may have incomplete emptying of your bladder that is related to dysfunctional voiding and pelvic floor dysfunction
Slow urinary stream: you hear other people’s urinations in a public restroom and you are jealous, it sounds so much stronger than yours. Your stream may stop and start.
Straining to urinate: You must push your urine out, it won’t come on its own.
Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome: You have a combination of pain and urinary frequency and urgency.
E hlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) related bladder problems
Diabetic bladder.

As Pelvic Health Physical Therapy specialists, we offer insights and treatment techniques that are natural and help you recover bladder function, including resolving bladder pain, incontinence, overactive bladder or other bladder problems.

Our pelvic physical therapists partner with you to identify how we can best optimize your bladder function and to provide you care that is holisitic, compassionate and designed to address your goals and ease your frustration about your bladder.

If you are wondering how does bladder physical therapy help your problem, the easiest way to explain it is that we help restore your bladder and pelvic floor muscles’ ability to function. We do this using a variety of hands-on treatment directed anywhere from your neck to your toes such as myofascial release, trigger point release, muscle balancing, pelvic and low back gentle mobilizations, hip alignment, visceral mobilization and therapeutic massage. We may combine these manual therapy techniques with exercise based treatments designed to optimize the coordination and timing of your bladder control, to improve pelvic floor dysfunction and address strength or flexibility imbalances. We also provide instructions on how to optimize your bladder function at home. This may include fluid intake, posture, toileting methods, constipation mitigation or other advice to improve your control. If you are interested to learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or contact us here.

Our evaluation and treatment is holistic and designed to address all contributing factors in your bladder dysfunction. These may include

Pelvic floor dysfunction: including high tone pelvic floor, weakness, tightness
Impaired timing and coordination of the pelvic floor muscles
Improper breathing mechanics that strain the bladder
Low back and hip contributions to your bladder condition
Postural contributions to your bladder condtiion
Fascia restrictions in viscerosomatic convergence areas related to your bladder. These include your thoracic spine, lower back, hips, thighs and abdominal wall.
Scar tissue that is impairing your bladder. This may be related to prior pelvic surgeries, endometriosis, pregnancy or postpartum injuries or trauma.
Food sensitivities
Bowel contributions: an unhealthy bowel can set off a bladder and disrupt optimal bladder control. This is true of everyone, but for children constipation impairs bladder control possibly more than adults. For our patients who have diarrhea, IBS, constipation or other bowel condition, we would like to partner with you to address this.
Non-optimal habits with exercise/fitness/running/jumping that overload the pelvic floor and overwhelm your bladder control system

Your goals and needs are at the center of our treatment. We will partner with you and create a pelvic physical therapy plan customized to your body’s needs.

Our patients tell us that this has been the most important thing they have done for themselves. I founded Purple Mountain Physical Therapy in Grand Rapids to provide bladder physical therapy to our community and beyond. Having worked in this field for 25 years, most of them in Chicago, I have experience working with some of the top medical centers that treat bladder problems; these include Northwestern, Rush and Loyola. My goal is to provide patients with compassionate, effective bladder physical therapy treatment in Grand Rapids or via telehealth that is holistic, effective and compassionate. If you wonder if bladder physical therapy could help you, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or ask a question here.

Bladder physical therapy that includes pelvic floor muscle training has been found to improve your quality of life and to improve your bladder symptoms!

As part of our focus on pelvic health, bladder problems and pelvic pain, we are active in professional societies and are mindful of what the research has found, so we can offer you treatment that is effective. One thing that has consistently been found to help bladder problems is pelvic floor muscle training exercises. This type of exercises goes well beyond the widely mis-understood concept of a Kegel exercise and includes focused instruction of how to properly coordinate the pelvic floor muscles within your entire bladder control system. Our PTs include pelvic floor muscle training treatment that incorporates postural correction, diaphragmatic breathing, core muscle strength, hip & low back treatment, coordination of the pelvic floor muscles with the rest of the bladder control system and more. The treatment we provide is consistent with research that has found that bladder physical therapy, from a pelvic health PT specialist, can improve symptom severity and quality of life. If you are interested to learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

People who have urinary urgency and frequency benefit from the treatment we offer to improve hip strength

Bladder control problems are not straight-forward to resolve. Our PTs have devoted our careers to learning about bladder function and best ways to reduce issues. We have included strengthening of your low back, hips and abdominals into the treatment program for some people, depending of their symptoms and findings. Research has found that urinary urgency and frequency problems also involve weakness of the hip muscles, specifically hip abduction and external rotation. Our PTs have included strength training exercises for these muscles for years and our clinical experience has found that these are one (of many) thing to be addressed to help urinary frequency and urgency. If you are interested to learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

We understand that sometimes the idea of starting a pelvic physical therapy is overwhelming and you don’t know what to expect. We’re here to take the anxiety out of this.

Our clinic provides you a private, welcoming place to receive your care. We focus on pelvic health and TM joint disorders, so everything has been set up here for your comfort, discretion and privacy. Our PTs enjoy getting to know you and will help you to reach your goals. We begin treatment with an evaluation, which includes you sharing your history and symptoms and an assessment of relevant areas that may be contributing to your bladder issues. This may include your posture, overall strength, pelvic floor muscle function, breathing, abdominal wall integrity (such as scars, elongation from pregnancy, diastasis recti abdominis), fascia in your thoracic spine, low back, hips, thighs, or other areas specific to your symptoms. To learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or reach out to us here.

We treat women, men and kids who have bladder problems. And our treatment methods are specific to each person’s needs. We do NOT simply apply “women’s health” bladder physical therapy treatment to a child or a man. Our pelvic physical therapists are trained the specific needs of children, men and women.

Women’s bladder needs are unique. We understand pelvic organ prolapse, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, recurrent urinary tract infections and female specific challenges across the lifespan.

Our pelvic PTs enjoy working with women throughout the lifespan and have post-graduate training and many years’ experience helping women through their college years, pregnancy & postpartum recovery, peri-menopause and menopause years. Our needs change throughout our lifespan and our PTs offer you what you need for bladder control and other pelvic or TM joint problems at all stages of life. You will receive customized treatment that addresses your unique needs. We know that bladder control problems are a risk factor for women needing assisted living in her elderly years. If you are having incontinence in your younger years, it is important to get that addressed. Why wait for it to worsen? Help is available today. Call 616-516-4334 to chat with one of our team members or contact us here.

Male bladder needs are different than female. Your anatomy is different and while everyone is different, males tends towards pelvic floor, hip and low back stiffness and tension that can cause urinary urgency, frequency, pelvic pain or other bladder issues.

Our male-specific training and experience gives men effective bladder physical therapy that is directed to the unique needs of male anatomy and bladder function. We work with men at all ages and address all bladder problems that men experience, including tip of penis or testicular pain, constant urge to urinate, post-void dribbling, incontinence, urgency and frequency, chronic prostatitis and post-prostatectomy bladder training. For more informationn about our bladder physical therapy treatment in Grand Rapids Michigan or via remote consult, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or contact us here.

Pediatric bladder needs require specific training for kiddos. We offer that!

Pediatric bladder patients often benefit external treatment methods and exercises that may help them practice and learn how to listen to the signal of their body, address underlying constipation and direct their mindfulness to feeling when they need to urinate. We use positive, encouraging methods with all of our patients and find our developmentally appropriate methods for little ones creates an uplifting and encouraging experience for them. If you are interested to learn more about our bladder physical therapy treatment, call us today at 616-516-4334 to speak with one of our knowledgeable staff or submit your questions here.

Bladder physical therapy won’t work if we don’t treat the many things contributing to your symptoms.

At Purple Mountain Physical Therapy, we are devoted to improving pelvic pain and bladder problems, so you get results. That’s why we offer whole body care and treatments that are compassionate, trauma-informed and effective. I have established Purple Mountain PT with your needs in mind. This is why every appointment is private, one-on-one with your licensed physical therapist upto 55 minutes in length. Our clinical experience has taught us that we must give you a full, complete treatment at each visit to get you the results. We never have you work with a lesser trained person and we do not leave you to exercise on your own during an appointment. We are by your side, correcting your movement patterns, cuing your muscular coordination and helping you get the most out of each visit. If you are interested in working with experienced pelvic PTs who focus on providing bladder physical therapy, we are located in Grand Rapids and offer in-person care or remote consults.

If you are interested in learning more, call our office at 616.516.4334. We are located at 847 Parchment Drive SE Grand Rapids, Michigan; this is near the I-96 and Cascade Road exit. We have convenient parking and a warm, welcoming staff. We are here to serve you and meet your needs.

Peace,

Dr. Maureen O’Keefe, DPT physical therapist and founder of Purple Mountain Physical Therapy. We are specialists in providing bladder physical therapy to men, women and children in Grand Rapids or via remote consultation. For more information about our bladder physical therapy treatments, call us today at 616-516-4334 or submit your questions here.

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