What is postpartum recovery?
The body that delivers a baby has done remarkable work. It also has tissue that needs time, attention, and often hands-on care to come back to how it moved before.
In plain language.
Postpartum recovery is the months your body spends rebuilding after pregnancy and birth. Pelvic floor PT works on the parts that exercise alone cannot reach: the deep abdominal wall, the diaphragm, the pelvic floor muscles, and the connective tissue that carried the baby and helped deliver it.
The body is responsive to this work at any timeline. Most patients begin between 6 and 12 weeks postpartum, but we see patients who delivered last week, last year, and twenty years ago. The tissue does not have a deadline.
How it shows up.
Postpartum patients arrive with a range of issues, most of which can be addressed by careful, dosed pelvic floor work. Common reasons to come in:
- Diastasis recti, the separation between the abdominal walls
- Stress or urge incontinence
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Pelvic floor weakness, or over-tightness from compensating
- Scar tissue from c-section or tearing
- Persistent pelvic, hip, or low back pain
- Pain with intimacy
What makes our treatment different.
Most postpartum PT is delivered in 15 to 20-minute slots, in shared rooms, often with shifting therapists across the course of care. We do it differently.
Sixty minutes in a private room with the same therapist, every visit. Hands-on manual therapy on the abdominal wall, the diaphragm, and the pelvic floor itself when clinically indicated, paired with the motor retraining the tissue actually needs to come back.
We see patients 6 weeks postpartum, 6 months postpartum, 6 years postpartum. The tissue is responsive at every timeline. We do not have a window.
Begin with a closer look.
Book a 60-minute evaluation, or call to talk through where you are first.