Urinary incontinence is just one of the many issues a weak pelvic floor can create, but it is the most common reason our patients come to our team at Spa 29 for pelvic floor treatment.
At Spa 29, we offer Emsella as our main treatment for strengthening the pelvic floor. Here, we’ll talk about why Emsella leads the field in pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, GA, and how it addresses the root cause of your concerns, not just the symptoms.
What Is the Pelvic Floor?
Many people don’t think or know about the pelvic floor, let alone what it does. This collection of muscles stretches between the front of your pubic bone and your tailbone.
These muscles work with the surrounding muscles and organs to support proper physical functions, like urination, defecation, and sexual reproduction. These muscles also help you stabilize your core and protect your organs and bones from impacts like sneezing, jumping, or external forces.
When the pelvic floor becomes weak, these muscles no longer properly support your bodily functions, which can cause issues like:
- Urinary incontinence
- Fecal incontinence
- Sexual dysfunction
Causes for a Weak Pelvic Floor
Many things contribute to weakening the pelvic floor, but we see these reasons most often at our med spa. Thankfully, all of these causes can be alleviated using pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, GA.
Pregnancy or Giving Birth
Carrying a pregnancy and giving birth puts a lot of strain on the pelvic floor muscles, causing them to stretch beyond their normal limits. While they can return to normal, the overstretching damages the muscles and prevents them from returning to their former strength and positions.
Surgery
Whenever you have a surgical procedure, the muscles in and around the surgical site are affected because the surgeon cuts through them, disrupting their ability to flex and relax normally.
With proper care and physical therapy, you can retrain your muscles so they return to their normal strength and flexibility. However, sometimes complications arise during the healing process and patients cannot follow their physical therapy instructions or do not care properly for their incisions, leading to dysfunction of the muscle.
When surgery requires incisions around the pelvic floor area, this not only affects the muscles that were cut, it can also weaken the surrounding muscles that had to bear the extra work while the affected muscles healed. Without proper care or physical therapy, this can lead to a weakened pelvic floor.
Recurrent UTIs
UTIs are uncomfortable to deal with, and some women get them regularly. When you have repeated UTIs, the consistent inflammation in the bladder also inflames the pelvic floor muscles. Over time, this inflammatory response can damage the muscles and cause pelvic floor dysfunction.
Aging
Another common reason for a weakened pelvic floor is simply the natural aging process. As we age, our muscles gradually become weaker—including the pelvic floor muscles.
The deterioration of the pelvic floor muscles is also affected by hormone fluctuations as we get older. Decreased amounts of testosterone and estrogen, which commonly happen during menopause, can cause muscle weakness and reduced muscle flexibility, leading to dysfunction.
Obesity
Our pelvic floor muscles hold up our organs and other muscles, providing the necessary support. But they also hold up our body fat, and when body fat increases, that also increases strain on those muscles over time.
As they strain, they lose strength, becoming weak and unable to support normal bodily functions.
Chronic Constipation
We all deal with constipation, but some people experience constipation regularly. The need to regularly strain and push to defecate puts additional pressure on your pelvic floor muscles, weakening your pelvic floor over time.
Treatment Options for Your Pelvic Floor
While Emsella is considered the best option for pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, you may find other options in your search for solutions.
Here are “solutions” other providers may recommend for treatment and why they don’t measure up to the benefits of Emsella.
Physical Therapy
While many people just picture physical therapy as simple exercises for your legs or your arms, therapists can offer exercises for your pelvic floor, too.
This typically includes a process called biofeedback, where a physical therapist uses sensors and video to identify which pelvic floor muscles are too tense or too relaxed. Then, your therapist can provide you with guidance on how to improve muscle coordination.
But while pelvic floor therapy can help, it takes a long time and daily effort to begin seeing improvements.
Medications
Other providers may recommend or prescribe certain medications depending on the cause of your pelvic floor dysfunction. For some, that may mean medications to relieve chronic constipation. For others, that may mean medications to manage neuromuscular conditions.
But while medication can address some of the causes, it still leaves you with a weakened pelvic floor—and any of the symptoms that come along with it.
Strengthening Exercises
Some providers may recommend exercises to strengthen your core and pelvic floor muscles. This can include yoga, pilates, and sometimes even weight training. However, you will most likely need to learn these exercises with a physical therapist first to ensure you are using proper form. And as with true physical therapy, it requires long commitments and daily repetitions.
Surgery
Surgery is another option certain providers recommend for pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, GA. During pelvic floor surgery, a surgeon cuts the muscles and stitches them together more tightly so they can function properly.
However, this option for treating pelvic floor dysfunction is painful, invasive, and has a long timeline for healing. Additionally, even small issues with physical therapy or healing can cause the weakness to return.
Lifestyle Changes
Other providers might recommend lifestyle changes, especially if the pelvic floor weakness stems from chronic constipation or excess weight. Our providers may recommend these options too, with assistance like diet coaching or weight loss injections, as these improvements can maintain your results for longer and improve your overall health and wellness.
However, while these changes maintain strength and overall wellness, they can’t reverse existing weaknesses. To retrain your pelvic floor, we offer Emsella.
The Ideal Treatment: Emsella
When comparing your options for treating a weakened pelvic floor, the best option by far is Emsella. For pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, Emsella’s noninvasive, comfortable, and quick technology can retrain and strengthen muscles to restore function—no injections, no surgery, and no medications required.
Emsella uses high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy to stimulate over 20,000 contractions within the pelvic floor muscles during each section. Don’t worry—they’re not like birthing contractions. They are not painful, just quick pulses that cause the muscles to tense and relax.
For about 30 minutes, you sit in the Emsella chair, fully clothed, while your muscles experience the workout of a lifetime. This “workout” increases muscle mass, improving strength and tightening the pelvic floor muscles so they can function properly.
The Emsella Process
You can expect these steps when you receive treatment with Emsella for pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, GA.
Consultation
Your first appointment with our providers is a one-on-one consultation. They talk with you about what concerns you would like to address, your goals are for your overall beauty and wellness, and more.
They also ask you questions about your health, including medications, any medical conditions you may have, and any aesthetic treatments you have received in the past. This helps them fully understand your needs, so we can pair you with the right care.
Finally, they talk with you about all your options for treatment, making sure to explain each one in detail. Before ending the consultation, they answer your questions, and together, you create your unique care plan to address your needs and accomplish your goals.
Treatment
If you decide on Emsella for your pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, you should arrive at your first appointment in comfortable, loose or flowing, and thin clothing. This allows the HIFEM energy to travel through your clothes and reach your pelvic floor muscles.
When you arrive, you will sit in the treatment chair fully clothed. Your provider may adjust your position so you receive the maximum amount of HIFEM energy. Then, you relax for about 30 minutes while the Emsella chair stimulates thousands of pelvic floor contractions, delivering the ultimate strengthening therapy for your muscles.
Results
Some patients notice improvements in their symptoms after just one session of Emsella, but we recommend anything between 4 to 8 sessions of Emsella for full results, depending on your starting condition.
While results typically last for at least 6 months, we recommend regular maintenance sessions to keep up improvements.
Most patients schedule maintenance sessions once every 6 to 9 months, but it depends on the severity of your pelvic floor dysfunction, other treatment options you pair with Emsella, and more. You and your provider can work together to plan out your maintenance as needed.
Enjoy the Benefits of Emsella
With quick treatment times and a comfortable process, Emsella delivers many benefits, making it the best option for pelvic floor therapy in Brunswick, GA.
If you think you might benefit from Emsella, we encourage you to book an appointment with one of our experts at Spa 29 to schedule your consultation.
Not quite ready for an in-person consultation? That is just fine! We also have a complimentary treatment planning tool that helps you find the best options for treatment based on your individual concerns.
Simply input what areas you would like to treat, what concerns you would like to address, and some more info about you, and you can begin exploring your options to reveal your best self.
