Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in NE Calgary
Private, one-on-one pelvic health assessment and treatment at Cityscape Square NE — postpartum recovery, incontinence, pelvic pain, prolapse and pregnancy-related pain. Direct billing to most plans.
- Private treatment room
- Internal assessment only with your consent
- Direct billing to most plans
- No referral needed
Pelvic Health Care Close to Home for Skyview, Redstone, Cornerstone and Saddle Ridge
Your deeply personal healing journey deserves a gentle, supportive and understanding hand.
Leaking when you laugh or run, pressure or heaviness after your baby, pain with intimacy, a core that never came back after pregnancy — these are common, treatable, and not something you have to live with. Apollo Physiotherapy provides pelvic floor physiotherapy at Cityscape Square NE for patients from Cityscape, Skyview Ranch, Redstone, Cornerstone, Savanna, Saddle Ridge and Cornerbrook, in a private treatment room with the same physiotherapist every visit.
Pelvic health here sits inside a full clinic: prenatal massage during pregnancy, postnatal massage after, and general physiotherapy for the back and hip pain that so often travels with pelvic floor dysfunction.
What Is the Pelvic Floor?
The pelvic floor is a network of muscles, ligaments, and connective tissues from the pubic bone to the tailbone supporting organs, movement, and stability. Assessment evaluates coordination to identify causes of symptoms and limitations.
- Supports internal organs and maintains alignment
- Controls bladder and bowel function
- Works with deep core muscles for spinal stability
- Regulates pressure during lifting, coughing, and movement
- Supports sexual and reproductive function
- Assists during pregnancy and postpartum recovery
- Contributes to posture, balance, and hip stability
- Enhances movement efficiency and load transfer
- Aids in shock absorption during physical activity
- Coordinates with the diaphragm during breathing
Pelvic floor dysfunction can affect comfort, mobility, continence, and posture; addressing it can improve function and overall quality of life.
Signs You May Benefit From Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Early pelvic floor dysfunction is often overlooked as a normal part of aging, pregnancy, childbirth, or activity. These symptoms can improve with assessment and treatment.
- Leakage with coughing, sneezing, lifting, or exercise
- Urgency or frequent urination (day/night)
- Difficulty starting or fully emptying the bladder
- Ongoing bladder pressure
- Constipation or straining
- Gas or stool leakage
- Incomplete emptying or rectal pressure
- Difficulty coordinating bowel movements
- Heaviness, fullness, or bulging sensation
- Lower back, hip, or abdominal pain
- Symptoms worsening with standing or activity
- Pain, burning, or muscle spasm
- Difficulty relaxing pelvic muscles
- Reduced sexual comfort or confidence
- Weak core stability or poor control
- Difficulty returning to exercise postpartum or after surgery
- Pelvic weakness or discomfort
- Bladder control issues after childbirth
- Difficulty resuming activity
If these symptoms are familiar, a pelvic floor assessment can help identify causes and improve function and quality of life.
- Pain, burning, or muscle spasm
- Difficulty relaxing pelvic muscles
- Reduced sexual comfort or confidence
- Weak core stability or poor control
- Difficulty returning to exercise postpartum or after surgery
- Pelvic weakness or discomfort
- Bladder control issues after childbirth
- Difficulty resuming activity
- Leakage or discomfort during exercise
- Reduced confidence in sports or fitness
- Tailbone, hip, groin, or pelvic pain
- Lower abdominal tension or pressure
- Bladder or bowel changes after surgery
- Ongoing weakness or delayed recovery
What Triggers Pelvic Floor Challenges?
These muscles adapt to physical changes, stress, and trauma over time rather than functioning in isolation. Understanding the underlying cause of your symptoms helps guide a tailored treatment approach.
Pregnancy shifts posture, alters balance, and places sustained pressure on pelvic tissues.
Vaginal or cesarean delivery may stretch or damage tissues, leading to scar formation and altered muscle function.
Chronic coughing, constipation, or heavy lifting can overstretch and weaken pelvic structures.
Surgeries may affect support structures, create scar tissue, and disrupt muscle control pathways.
Reduced estrogen during perimenopause or menopause can decrease tissue elasticity and strength.
Ongoing stress or poor posture can lead to habitual tension in the pelvic and abdominal muscles.
Conditions Handled with Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Calgary
At Apollo Physiotherapy, we review your complete health history to align symptoms with safe, non-surgical pelvic floor rehabilitation. We support a wide range of pelvic health conditions.
- Stress Incontinence: Leaks during coughing, laughing, lifting, or exercise.
- Urge Incontinence: Sudden, strong urge to urinate with difficulty holding it.
- Mixed Incontinence: Combination of stress and urge symptoms.
- Overflow Incontinence: Constant dribbling due to incomplete bladder emptying.
- Cystocele: Bladder bulging into the vaginal wall due to weakened support.
- Rectocele: Rectal bulging into the vaginal wall affects bowel function.
- Uterine Prolapse: Descent of the uterus due to weakened pelvic support structures.
Includes conditions such as levator ani syndrome, vulvodynia, bladder pain syndrome, and coccygodynia, causing persistent pelvic or tailbone pain and discomfort.
Includes vaginismus and dyspareunia, involving pain, tightness, or discomfort during intimacy or examination.
Includes chronic constipation and fecal incontinence due to impaired muscle coordination or weakness.
Addresses pregnancy-related pelvic pain, diastasis recti, and postpartum scar or tissue recovery.
What to Expect During Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Assessment
A pelvic health assessment prioritizes your comfort, privacy, and safety, beginning with a detailed discussion and followed by a physical assessment.
We review your health history, including fluid intake, bowel and bladder habits, medical or surgical background, intimacy concerns, and how symptoms affect your daily life and goals.
With your consent, we proceed with an assessment that can be paused or modified at any time.
- External Postural Check: We assess posture, walking pattern, hip mobility, and core coordination with breathing.
- External Pelvic Check: We examine skin integrity and observe pelvic floor reflex response during coughing.
- Internal Muscle Evaluation: A gentle internal assessment (vaginal or rectal) evaluates muscle tone, strength, endurance, and relaxation to understand pelvic floor function.
Techniques Used in Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Calgary
Everybody functions differently, which is why we do not use generic exercise sheets. We create a customized treatment plan based on your symptoms, goals, and assessment findings using evidence-based approaches.
Improves coordination between the brain and pelvic floor for better activation, relaxation, and breathing integration.
Hands-on manual therapy techniques to reduce tension, improve mobility, and address trigger points.
Strengthens core, hips, and spine to improve stability and movement control.
Improves flexibility and comfort following surgeries such as C-sections or episiotomies.
Uses real-time feedback to improve awareness and control of pelvic floor muscles.
Techniques to reduce muscle overactivity, tension, and discomfort.
Progressive exercises to improve support, control, and stability when weakness is present.
Enhances pressure control and deep core function through breathing retraining.
Supports pelvic stability and overall movement efficiency.
Restores pelvic floor function, strength, and confidence after childbirth with postpartum pelvic floor physiotherapy calgary.
Supports comfort, stability, and pelvic health during pregnancy with prenatal pelvic floor physiotherapy and postnatal pelvic floor physiotherapy.
Improves alignment during daily activities to reduce pelvic strain.
Teaches safe movement patterns for lifting, bending, and daily tasks.
Helps control abdominal pressure during exertion to reduce symptoms.
Progressive programs to safely resume fitness and sports.
Improves coordination, control, and functional performance.
Combines manual therapy, relaxation, and movement-based techniques.
prenatal pelvic floor physiotherapy calgary to reduce strain and improve comfort during pregnancy.
Individualized Exercise Prescription programs targeting strength, flexibility, and function.
Strategies to reduce strain during work and daily activities.
By combining these approaches, pelvic floor physiotherapy addresses muscular, neurological, and functional factors to improve comfort, confidence, and daily function.
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy for Pelvic Support
Pelvic health priorities shift as you move through different stages of life. We design our care to match these changing needs.
During pregnancy, we focus on comfort, mobility, and preparing the pelvic muscles for birth. This includes learning relaxation techniques, labour positions, and perineal massage to improve tissue flexibility.
After childbirth, we support a safe recovery through core reactivation, scar tissue management, and a gradual return to activity, including running or high-impact exercise, without leakage or strain.`
As hormones change, we help maintain tissue health, manage prolapse symptoms, and reduce bladder leaks, supporting continued activity and independence.
Pre-surgical care prepares muscles for recovery, while post-surgical rehab focuses on postpartum scar management, pain reduction, and safe return to daily activities.
Insurance and Direct Billing
Pelvic floor physiotherapy is billed as physiotherapy and covered by most extended health plans. We direct bill Alberta Blue Cross, Sun Life, Manulife, Canada Life and others. No doctor’s referral is needed to book, though some plans require one for reimbursement — check your plan or call us and we will verify before your first visit.
Book a Pelvic Floor Assessment at Cityscape Square NE
Physical comfort, confidence and daily function depend on a well-coordinated core system. Start with a private assessment.
Unit 210 – 100 Cityscape Square NE, two minutes from Métis Trail and Country Hills Blvd. Free parking, open until 7 pm Friday and 9–4 Saturday. Call (403) 300-2400 or book online.
What NE Calgary Patients Say
The Compassionate Hands Behind Your Recovery
Discover the dedicated professionals ready to guide your pelvic health rehabilitation journey with gentle support, clinical diligence, and a shared commitment to restoring your daily comfort.
Ramesh Bimagani
Physical Therapist
Ramesh brings a grounded, thoughtful approach to care, utilizing precise manual therapies and custom core retraining to help you gently rebuild foundational strength, overcome chronic leaks, and reclaim everyday confidence.
Vaidarbhi Patel
Physical Therapist
Vaidarbhi focuses on mindful pelvic down-training and nervous system calming, creating a deeply secure environment where you can safely navigate tissue sensitivity, painful intimacy, and complex postpartum recovery.
Harmandeep Singh
Physical Therapist
Harmandeep combines practical functional movement analysis with biofeedback tools, empowering you to coordinate your deep core structures effortlessly so you can confidently return to the active lifestyle you love.
Yenny Berenice
Massage Therapist:
Janki combines warmth with a meticulous approach, delivering tailored care to resolve deep physical tension. Her gentle demeanour provides a nurturing space that eases stress and supports body mechanics.
Janki Devi
Massage Therapist
Yenny brings extensive clinical training to our team, providing therapeutic, deep-tissue, trigger-point, and prenatal massage solutions that gently soothe persistent lower back strain and pelvic muscle tension.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Coughing and sneezing create sudden increases in abdominal pressure. If the pelvic floor muscles cannot respond quickly enough to support the bladder and urethra, leakage may occur. Physiotherapy focuses on strengthening, timing, and coordination strategies to help the muscles respond more effectively during these activities.
Frequent nighttime urination may be influenced by bladder habits, pelvic floor dysfunction, fluid intake patterns, and other health factors. Physiotherapists assess contributing causes and provide bladder retraining techniques, behavioural strategies, and pelvic floor interventions that may help reduce unnecessary nighttime bathroom visits.
Urgency can occur when bladder signals become overly sensitive or when pelvic floor muscles remain tense and irritated. Physiotherapy helps identify contributing factors and teaches bladder retraining, relaxation strategies, and pelvic floor coordination techniques designed to improve control and reduce urgency episodes.
Many individuals seek treatment after experiencing symptoms for years. While recovery timelines vary, pelvic floor rehabilitation can help improve muscle function, bladder control, and symptom management regardless of how long symptoms have been present. Consistent participation in therapy and home exercises often contributes to better outcomes.
Bladder retraining entails gradually increasing the time between bathroom visits while improving pelvic floor control and suppressing unnecessary urgency signals. Physiotherapists create individualized schedules and strategies that help the bladder develop healthier habits, potentially reducing frequency, urgency, and leakage episodes over time.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
When the pelvic organs descend due to a lack of support from the muscles and connective tissues, the condition is known as pelvic organ prolapse. Physiotherapy focuses on strengthening support structures, improving pressure management, optimizing movement mechanics, and teaching strategies that help manage symptoms during daily activities.
Certain activities may increase pressure on the pelvic floor if performed without appropriate support or technique. Physiotherapists evaluate movement patterns and modify exercises when needed. Individuals can often continue exercising safely with proper guidance and progressive rehabilitation strategies.
Common symptoms include pelvic heaviness, pressure sensations, bulging feelings, bladder changes, bowel difficulties, and discomfort during prolonged standing. Symptoms vary in severity and may fluctuate throughout the day depending on activity levels, fatigue, and pressure demands.
Many individuals successfully manage prolapse symptoms through physiotherapy, lifestyle modifications, pelvic floor rehabilitation, and pressure-management techniques. Treatment aims to improve support, function, and symptom control. Outcomes depend on the severity of prolapse and individual circumstances.
Improper lifting can increase pressure within the abdomen and place additional stress on pelvic support structures. Physiotherapists teach breathing and lifting strategies that distribute forces more effectively, helping reduce strain on the pelvic floor during daily tasks.
Bowel Health and Pelvic Floor Function
Yes. Tight, uncoordinated, or poorly functioning pelvic floor muscles can interfere with bowel emptying. Physiotherapy assesses muscular function and teaches relaxation, positioning, breathing, and behavioural techniques that may help improve bowel movements and reduce straining.
Repeated straining increases downward pressure on pelvic tissues and may contribute to prolapse, muscle dysfunction, and symptom progression. Physiotherapists educate patients about proper toileting mechanics and bowel habits to reduce unnecessary stress on the pelvic floor.
Breathing influences pressure regulation throughout the abdomen and pelvis. Proper breathing can help coordinate muscle relaxation and support more efficient bowel emptying. Physiotherapists teach techniques that promote healthier pressure management during toileting activities.
In some cases, incomplete emptying is linked to pelvic floor muscle coordination issues. Assessment helps identify underlying dysfunction, while treatment may include relaxation training, movement strategies, and education aimed at improving bowel function and reducing discomfort.
Posture affects the alignment of the pelvic floor and rectum. Appropriate positioning may reduce muscular resistance and improve bowel emptying efficiency. Physiotherapists provide practical recommendations that support healthy toileting habits and minimize unnecessary strain.
Exercise, Movement, and Athletic Performance
Yes. Running, jumping, lifting, and high-impact sports increase demands on the pelvic floor. Physiotherapy helps athletes improve muscle coordination, manage symptoms such as leakage or heaviness, and develop movement strategies that support performance while protecting pelvic health.
Physical activity increases abdominal pressure and challenges pelvic floor control. Leakage may occur if muscles are weak, fatigued, overly tense, or poorly coordinated. Physiotherapy identifies contributing factors and develops targeted rehabilitation programs to address them.
Not always. The pelvic floor, diaphragm, and abdominal muscles work together as a functional system. Effective rehabilitation often requires addressing breathing mechanics, muscle coordination, movement patterns, and pelvic floor-specific training rather than focusing solely on core strengthening.
Heavy lifting can place significant pressure on pelvic support structures. Proper breathing, technique, and muscle coordination are important for minimizing strain. Physiotherapists assess lifting mechanics and provide individualized recommendations for safe participation in strength-training activities.
Running creates repetitive impact forces that challenge pelvic stability and support. Physiotherapists assess readiness, strength, endurance, and movement quality before creating gradual return-to-running programs designed to support confidence and reduce symptom recurrence.
Treatment and Long-Term Management
Treatment duration varies based on symptom severity, goals, medical history, and participation in home exercises. Some people see results after just a few sessions, while others require more extensive rehabilitation. Physiotherapists regularly reassess progress and adjust treatment plans accordingly.
No. Pelvic floor dysfunction can result from weakness, tightness, poor coordination, or a combination of factors. Physiotherapists design individualized exercise programs based on assessment findings rather than using a generic approach for all patients.
Education helps individuals understand symptom triggers, pressure management, movement strategies, bladder habits, bowel health, and exercise modifications. Greater understanding often improves self-management, supports treatment outcomes, and encourages healthier long-term pelvic floor function.
Yes. Factors such as fluid intake, physical activity, toileting habits, lifting techniques, posture, and chronic straining can affect pelvic floor health. Physiotherapists assess these influences and recommend practical changes that support rehabilitation goals.
Home exercises reinforce treatment gains achieved during appointments and promote ongoing adaptation of muscles and movement patterns. Consistent participation often improves strength, coordination, endurance, and symptom management while supporting long-term progress.
Symptoms may return if contributing factors are not addressed or if new physical demands arise. Maintaining exercise routines, healthy movement habits, and pressure-management strategies can help support long-term pelvic floor function and reduce recurrence risks.
Posture affects pressure distribution, breathing mechanics, and muscular alignment. Poor posture may increase strain on pelvic structures. Physiotherapists evaluate posture and provide strategies that improve body mechanics during sitting, standing, lifting, and exercise activities.
Natural age-related changes in muscle strength, tissue elasticity, and hormonal influences can impact pelvic floor performance. Physiotherapy helps address these changes through individualized exercise programs, movement education, and strategies designed to support ongoing function.
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Calgary involves individualized assessments, targeted rehabilitation, symptom-specific treatment planning, and professional guidance. Unlike general exercise programs, treatment addresses underlying pelvic floor dysfunction, bladder concerns, bowel symptoms, pelvic pain, and movement-related factors affecting recovery.
Individuals should consider Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Calgary when experiencing urinary leakage, urgency, pelvic pressure, bowel dysfunction, postpartum concerns, pelvic discomfort, or difficulty returning to physical activity. Early assessment may help identify contributing factors and provide strategies to support improved function and quality of life.