In France and other countries like the Netherlands and Australia, postpartum physical therapy is a common treatment to help women recover from the rigors of childbirth. Yet in the United States and Canada, women often just have a 6-week postpartum check-up and are told to resume their normal activities.
In an ideal world, every post partum woman should have an evaluation to identify what their particular issues are and get a specialized home program. A physical therapist can help identify impairments in the tissues, muscles, nerves and joints and evaluate the abdominal wall and the pelvic floor muscles to determine what has changed during pregnancy, labor and delivery.
Once the issues are identified, women are given an individualized program to help the muscles heal, improve urinary, bowel and sexual function as well as the overall stability of the pelvis so they can do things like pick up their babies.
Read more about why pelvic floor physical therapy should be a part of every woman’s post partum recovery…
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/04/17/why-every-new-mom-needs-physical-therapy.html
