Re: Self PT?

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

If you haven't already, seek out a good physcial therapist that works

with pelvic pain disorders.

Self pt refers to releasing the trigger points for the internal pelvic

muscles. It's hard to distinguish at first what's normal/what's not

and if you are doing it right or not.

Basically, with one leg up, you reach in with your thumb and search

for any tight spots. You should feel all loose with no resistance. If

the muscles feel hard, then they are not relaxing. With your thumb you

apply steady pressure on an area of tightness and then follow the

muscle as it releases. Sometimes it just won't release and that's ok.

This takes time. There is more than one muscle there so you have to

search around to hit all of the spots. You should make sure to work

both sides. I concentrated so much on my left side (because that's

were most of my tension and pain was) that my right side ended up

becoming tight. Now I make sure to work both sides.

Dawn

So, I'm wondering if anyone could describe the self PT exercises they

do.

[Guest guest]

I know how to do PT at home but I wouldn't do it without have been to a

PT first, she taught DH and I what to do - because the same things

don't work for everyone, and not everyone needs the same exercises as

others.

The Happy Pelvis group has loads of info and advice on self-PT.

Melinda

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

The instructions I found were called " Molly's self PT instructions.doc "

Go to the yahoo group website, on the left you should see a column:

" Home

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Files

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It's not under Messages, it's under " Files " - not quite half-way down

the page.

If you can't find it, just let me know, and I'll e-mail it to you.

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