Physical therapy after a vaginal birth

Physical Therapist Deena Goodman, PT, shares advice for new moms on the best physical therapy treatments for moms who have had a vaginal delivery
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Physical therapy after a vaginal birth

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The best treatments for moms who have had a vaginal delivery include pelvic floor strengthening. Those tissues need to be assessed internally, as well as externally, to feel what those muscles are like and what strength they have. In conjunction with abdominal, back, and trunk strengthening. As well as, we might add some electrical stimulation, which helps muscle strengthening, and also helps with pain, if they have, as well as, infrared light, ultrasound, heat and ice treatments, in conjunction. Everyone is different, but those treatment modalities are the treatments of choice.

Physical Therapist Deena Goodman, PT, shares advice for new moms on the best physical therapy treatments for moms who have had a vaginal delivery

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Deena Goodman, PT

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Deena Poll Goodman, PT, WCS, BCIA-PMDB is the Founder and Director of Goodman Physical Therapy, Inc in West Los Angeles, CA. She is a licensed Physical Therapist with over 22 years of experience specializing in urogynecology, obstetrics, orthopedics, and pelvic health and wellness.  Goodman is one of the first in the nation to have received Board Certification as a Women's Health Clinical Specialist by the American Physical Therapy Association. She treats men and women in her private practice for pelvic and sexual pain issues, and has a passion for helping prenatal and postpartum women get their bodies back in shape. She is internationally recognized for her work in pelvic floor rehabilitation, and developed and implemented many programs during the 12 years she was on staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center including mom and baby exercise classes. 

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