Physical Therapy in Hollywood, FL
If leaking, pelvic pain or painful sex has been called normal and then left there, this is the kind of physical therapy that actually examines it.
What is physical therapy in Hollywood, FL?
Physical therapy here means one thing: the muscles, nerves and connective tissue of the pelvis, assessed properly and treated directly. Pelvic floor dysfunction comes from weakness, from tension that will not release, from nerve irritation, or from the way a body has reorganized itself around an old injury, a surgery or a birth. Medication can quiet a symptom for an afternoon. It cannot change the pattern underneath it. So the pattern is what we go looking for. That is how leaking, pelvic pain, painful intercourse, painful urination, constipation and the dragging heaviness of prolapse all get treated at Wellsprings Health, by finding the mechanism that is actually driving them and working on that. Your therapist stays with you for the whole visit, in a private room with the door closed, for 30 to 60 minutes. Not three patients at once. Not a sheet of exercises handed over at the front desk.
Florida is a direct-access state, so no physician referral is needed to begin. You can call and book an evaluation. If something on the table feels wrong once treatment starts, say so and it changes: some tenderness is normal when guarded tissue is being worked on, but treatment should stay tolerable, and your feedback is what shapes it. Coverage and payment are handled case by case, which means the honest answer comes from a phone call. Ask for Ronda at (954) 842-3825 and she will tell you what your visits will cost before you book anything.
Who it's for.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is not a women's issue or a men's issue. It is a pelvis issue. These are the three situations that bring most people into this room, and not one of them is rare.
Cleared after a birth, still not right
Your six-week check said everything looked fine. You are still crossing your legs to sneeze, still not running, still bracing before sex. That is not a discipline problem and it is not the price of having children. It is healing tissue, pressure management and coordination, and all three of those respond to hands-on work and progressive loading.
Pain nobody has been able to explain
Pelvic pain that flares with movement or exercise. Pain during intercourse. Burning when you urinate. A gynecological exam you dread for weeks beforehand. The imaging came back clean, so you were told to relax. Clean imaging rules some things out. It does not rule out muscle guarding, nerve irritation or scar, which is precisely what a pelvic floor exam is built to find.
Men who were told there is nothing there
Chronic pelvic pain. Urinary urgency, leakage, dribbling, or a bladder that never quite empties. Erectile difficulty. Rehabilitation after prostate surgery. Bowel trouble and hemorrhoid discomfort that has outlasted every cream on the shelf. Men have a pelvic floor, and it holds tension and loses coordination exactly like any other muscle group. You are not imagining this.
What to expect in a session.
Every visit is 30 to 60 minutes, one on one, with the same therapist and the door closed. Here is what those minutes actually look like.
We listen, then we assess
Your history comes first: what happened, what you have already tried, what you have stopped doing because of it. Then a movement and posture screen, and an assessment of how the pelvic floor muscles are working and whether nerves are contributing. Nothing takes place before it has been explained to you.
Hands-on work, then retraining
Manual therapy comes first, releasing tissue that is holding tension and restoring mobility. Then neuromuscular retraining, often with biofeedback or gentle stimulation, so the muscles learn to contract and release on cue instead of clamping down all day. More Kegels are not the answer for a floor that is already too tight.
Load it, then keep it
Targeted exercise builds the strength and endurance your actual life demands: lifting a toddler, a full shift on your feet, sex without bracing first. You finish with relaxation work and a short home program. What you do between visits is what makes the change hold, and your therapist will tell you at the evaluation what your plan looks like.
A pelvic floor assessment may involve internal work, and parts of the exam can require partial undressing, similar to a gynecology visit. You will hear what the technique is and why it matters before anything begins, you can decline any part of it, and you can stop at any point. Consent here is continuous and it belongs to you. Tell your therapist beforehand if you are pregnant, recently postpartum, recently post-surgical, or have taken pain medication that day, so intensity can be adjusted. Wear something you can move in.
I have had the pleasure of working with both Dr. Leslie and Tanya who were both incredibly knowledgeable and always made me feel super comfortable.
Where to go next.
Pelvic Floor Therapy
Internal and external work to retrain muscles you were never taught to feel.
Manual Therapy
Skilled hands on restricted tissue, the technique everything else builds on.
Pelvic Pain
Pain in the pelvis, groin or genitals that imaging keeps calling normal.