Postpartum Health & Recovery

Your body deserves support after pregnancy and birth. Postpartum physical therapy helps you rebuild strength, restore core and pelvic floor function, and return to daily life and exercise with confidence

What is Postpartum Physical Therapy?

Pregnancy and delivery place significant stress on the muscles, joints, and pelvic floor. Even with an uncomplicated birth, it is common to experience weakness, pain, or symptoms that make it difficult to feel like yourself again. Postpartum physical therapy focuses on restoring strength, stability, and coordination so you can move comfortably while caring for your baby and returning to the activities you love.

Treatment may include:

• Core and abdominal rehabilitation

• Pelvic floor strengthening and relaxation

• Scar tissue treatment after C-section or tearing

• Postural and lifting mechanics for caring for baby

• Hip and back strengthening

• Guided return to exercise

• Manual therapy for pain and stiffness

• Breathing and pressure management training

Care is always one-on-one and tailored to your symptoms, goals, and stage of recovery.

Common issues we help with

Postpartum concerns are very common and very treatable.

We frequently help patients with:

• Diastasis recti (abdominal separation)

• Urinary leakage or urgency

• Pelvic heaviness or prolapse symptoms

• Pain with exercise

• Back, hip, or neck pain after baby

• Core weakness

• Pain with intercourse

• C-section scar tightness or sensitivity

• Perineal tearing discomfort

• Difficulty returning to running or workouts

• Feeling unstable or weak after pregnancy

Even if it has been months or years since delivery, it is not too late to improve strength and
function.

When should I start postpartum therapy?

Postpartum therapy can begin as early as a few weeks after delivery with gentle treatment, or later when you feel ready to focus on rebuilding strength.

Many patients start when:

• Pain is not improving

• Exercise feels difficult

• Leakage or heaviness is present

• Core feels weak or disconnected

• They want guidance returning to workouts

Early treatment often makes recovery easier, but improvement is possible at any stage.

Why postpartum rehab matters

Many women are told that symptoms after birth are normal, but that does not mean you have to live with them.

With the right guidance, your body can become strong, stable, and comfortable again.

Our goal is to help you feel confident in your body — not just as a mother, but as yourself.

Ready to start your recovery?

Schedule a postpartum evaluation to create a personalized plan for healing and rebuilding strength.