Women in pain from the pelvis, from fibroids or from cysts often curl up against it, tensing the whole body - in the foetal position, for instance. Held that way, the muscles of the pelvic floor, the abdomen and the hips shorten.
Another source of pain is scars and adhesions, for example after gynaecological surgery. Those scars pull on the muscles, which in turn pull on the joints, leaving the organs and the posture set asymmetrically. Adhesions forming after an operation can cause pain during intercourse, passing urine or opening the bowels, because all of these stretch them. Beyond the changes in the joints and muscles, pain can also be produced by changes in normal movement patterns and in the elasticity of the tissue.
What matters then is to stretch those shortened muscles and the fascia - the membranes surrounding every muscle - and so to give the tissues a free glide against each other, and the nerves a free glide between the muscle fibres.
To reduce the pain we can also use a range of exercises, along with manual therapy and massage, to improve quality of life.
We also focus on restoring a normal breathing pattern and normal posture.
Therapy
- Manual pain-relief techniques
- Releasing therapy on trigger points per vaginam
- Learning self-therapy
- Manual therapy
- Dry needling
- Mobilisation of scars and adhesions in the pelvis
- Osteopathic techniques on the sacroiliac joints
- Sets of pain-relief exercises
- Learning to work with the breath
- Stretching exercises