Conditions

Your pelvic floor needs support throughout your life, and we’re here to help you! We offer customized pelvic floor physical therapy in Atlanta for all genders over 18 years old. It’s never too early or too late to get the help you need!

We can help you with these concerns and more!

Pregnancy/Postpartum

  • Pre-conception/preparation for pregnancy

  • Labor/childbirth preparation

  • Practice for pushing phase of labor

  • Pregnancy pain

  • Pelvic girdle pain

  • Mid-back pain

  • Sacral/low back pain

  • Pubic symphysis pain

  • Lightning crotch

  • Round ligament pain

Dr Shipley offers pelvic floor therapy Atlanta for pregnancy

Pain

  • Interstitial Cystitis

  • Endometriosis

  • Chronic pelvic pain

  • Pubic symphysis dysfunction - PSD (or symphysis pubis dysfunction - SPD)

  • Vulvodynia

  • Vaginismus

  • Lichen sclerosus

  • SIJ pain

  • Groin pain

  • Low back pain

  • Buttock pain

  • Athletic pubalgia (sports hernia)

  • Coccydynia (tailbone pain)

  • Lower abdominal pain

  • Pain from abdominal or pelvic scars

  • Proctalgia fugax (anal spasms/rectal pain)

  • Dyspareunia (painful sex/intercourse)

  • Pain with initial and/or deep penetration

  • Testicular pain

  • Penile pain

  • Pain during/after orgasm/ejaculation

person holding belly in pain - pelvic floor therapy helps with pelvic pain and vaginismus

Bowel/Bladder

  • Stress urinary incontinence

  • Urge urinary incontinence

  • Mixed incontinence

  • Dribbling after urination

  • Fecal incontinence

  • Incontinence of gas

  • Fecal smearing

  • Constipation

  • Incomplete bladder emptying/urination

  • Incomplete bowel emptying/defecation

  • Urinary urgency

  • Urinary frequency

  • Fecal urgency

  • Dysuria (painful urination)

  • Dyschezia (painful defecation)

  • Straining to urinate or defecate

  • Urinary hesitancy, difficulty starting urine stream

  • Weak urine stream, poor flow

  • Abdominophrenic dyssynergia

Supportive Conditions

  • Pelvic organ prolapse

  • Vaginal pressure, heaviness, or falling-out sensation

  • Rectal prolapse

  • Uterocele (uterine prolapse)

  • Cystocele (bladder prolapse)

  • Rectocele (rectum prolapse)

  • Enterocele (small bowel prolapse)

  • Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Pre/Post Abdominal Surgery

  • Preparation for surgery

  • Post-surgical healing

  • Painful scars & restrictions

  • C-section scar pain

Preventative

  • Evaluation to identify possible areas of concern

  • Education to improve your pelvic health

  • Information to support your overall health

Ariel Esperancilla educates patients on holistic pelvic care

Perimenopause/Menopause

Get help with Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM), including these common symptoms and more:

  • Vaginal dryness

  • Painful sex, bleeding after sex

  • Decreased sexual arousal and desire, difficulty with orgasm

  • Constipation

  • Painful urination

  • Urinary urgency

  • Urinary frequency

  • Urinary incontinence

  • Fecal incontinence

  • Urinary tract infections

  • Vaginal infections

  • Pelvic organ prolapse