Pelvic floor physical therapy helps. Why don’t people know about it?

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Pelvic floor physical therapy helps. Why don’t people know about it?

Kathy Kates ran sexual reproductive health programs at a community health center in Brighton, Massachusetts, before being diagnosed with breast cancer. 

Once in remission, the vaginal pain came. 

During a pelvic exam, the practitioner discovered that Kates had tight pelvic floor muscles and suggested she try pelvic physical therapy.

Pelvic floor physical therapy helps. Why don’t people know about it?

Kates was mortified. She’d spent 10 years treating reproductive health, and she had never heard of this kind of physical therapy. “How many women did I treat and totally ignore the pelvic floor?” Kates wondered. 

Kates found physical therapy to be crucial in her recovery and created Pelvic Health Support, a physical therapy facility in Boston. However, Kates recognizes that a growing number of patients are still unable to get the care they so desperately need.

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