A typical week of workout routines may include arms, legs, back, and a day for your core. But what about your pelvic floor? While this is one of the most essential muscle groups in the body, it’s often one of the most overlooked. To discover what makes these muscles so important and how the Institute for Hormonal Balance improves them, we’re taking a deep dive into pelvic floor therapy in Arlington!
What’s in Your Pelvic Floor?
Before we discuss our revolutionary treatment, we feel it’s important to share what your pelvic floor does. These muscles hold your major organs in place and protect them to promote healthy function and mobility. Here are some of the core functions our pelvic floor therapy in Arlington helps with!
Structural Support
At a basic level, these muscles act as a hammock that supports your bladder, uterus (in women), and rectum. The main muscle of the pelvic floor (levator ani) works to prevent organs from sagging or falling due to gravity, pregnancy, childbirth, or increased abdominal pressure.
Core Stability & Posture
Pelvic floor muscles are also an integral part of your core musculature. Your coccygeus muscle works with your abdominal, back, and diaphragm muscles to provide stability and support to your spine and pelvis.
Strong pelvic floor muscles ensure proper posture and alignment of your pelvis and spine. With better posture, our therapy can help to relieve back pain and improve your overall range of motion. Your pelvic floor plays a pivotal role in everyday functions, like standing, walking, lifting, and twisting.
Bowel Control
Some of the most complex muscles in this group play a vital role in controlling your bladder and bowel functions. Through a network of sphincters and inner muscles, your pelvic floor also works to control the flow of urine or stool. Many men and women experience urinary incontinence if these crucial muscles weaken.
Sexual Health
This muscle group is also responsible for overall sexual wellness and satisfaction. For both men and women, the pelvic floor comprises many essential elements of a satisfying sexual experience. Without adequate control or function, individuals can experience several effects:
- Erectile dysfunction: Men with a weak pelvic floor can experience difficulty maintaining an erection, as the pelvic floor aids in providing blood flow to the penis.
- Vaginismus and sexual discomfort: Women who struggle with their pelvic floor may have painful sexual experiences due to uncontrolled tightness or lubrication.
- Trouble with orgasm: The pelvic floor muscles in men and women alike may contract uncontrollably, which may limit stamina or the ability to reach a quality orgasm.
No matter how you’re noticing a weak pelvic floor, our team is ready to help with groundbreaking technology that goes beyond anything a typical workout could provide. Many patients come to us looking to treat incontinence, improve mobility, or just feel more confident. But at the Institute for Hormonal Balance, they get so much more from our pelvic floor therapy in Arlington!
Get More With Emsella
For the most comprehensive pelvic floor therapy, all you have to do is take a seat on our Emsella chair! Thanks to the brilliant minds at BTL, this device provides high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) stimulation to key muscles throughout your pelvic floor. This creates thousands of supramaximal contractions in a single session, building natural strength efficiently, effectively, and comfortably to provide a host of benefits to your overall well-being.
More Control
Stronger pelvic floor muscles mean better control, which reduces the impact of stress incontinence. As every supramaximal contraction empowers your internal muscles, sphincters become tighter and other internal muscles become stronger. This provides natural, lasting relief over incontinence—no pills or surgery required!
More Mobility
Along with more control over urination, Emsella also provides more control over several muscles that are essential for mobility. By strengthening the muscles that support posture and connect your core to your leg muscles, patients improve every stride. With the power of pelvic floor therapy, our patients stay active and enjoy a more fulfilling life!
More Passion
Of all the benefits that come from Emsella treatments, this is one of the most popular amongst our patients. With greater confidence that comes with control over incontinence and better mobility, it’s also easier to have a satisfying sexual experience! Our pelvic floor therapy in Arlington is helping couples keep those passionate flames burning by helping men achieve and maintain erections while women enjoy more comfortable, satisfying sensations.
Your Emsella Experience
From initial consultation to follow-up appointments, IHB strives to exceed expectations with every treatment, and Emsella is no different. Enjoying how you look and feel with us starts with an effortless consultation to get to know you. With your goals in mind, our highly skilled team works together to build your unique treatment plan. Here’s what you can expect when you trust the Institute for Hormonal Balance with your pelvic floor therapy in Arlington!
Consultation
During our initial conversation, we’ll discuss the extent of your concerns and how long you’ve been struggling with them. Hormonal imbalance can contribute to your symptoms as well, and we can also decipher crucial details hidden within your biology with a blood draw that only takes a few minutes. Unwanted weight gain can cause incontinence and a weakened pelvic floor and for an added dimension of understanding of your metabolism, we offer PNOE metabolic testing that gives us insight into 23 key biomarkers in one easy-to-understand screening.
All of this helps us pinpoint the root causes of your concerns and create a custom treatment plan that truly suits your needs. With a clear understanding from our consultation and thorough testing, we’ll recommend Emsella to treat the physical concerns that present incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and posture or mobility concerns. To wrap up your consultation, we’ll schedule a series of sessions that fits flawlessly into your calendar.
Therapy
To prepare for your session, we recommend staying hydrated. On the day of your treatment, you’ll want to arrive in comfortable clothing free of metal (buttons, zippers, etc.) and remove any jewelry. This is because Emsella uses powerful magnets to deliver treatment. Make sure to tell your specialist about any implants or pacemakers during your consultation, as we’ll be happy to recommend other solutions that may work for you.
When you arrive for your pelvic floor therapy in Arlington, our friendly front desk will greet you and complete any necessary check-in paperwork. Upon your check-in, we’ll prepare our Emsella device with the prescribed protocol and escort you back to a comfortable treatment room for your session. Once there, we’ll answer any last-minute questions and begin your session.
While sitting on the Emsella chair, it’s common to feel a funny sensation throughout your pelvic region and into your core muscle groups. No need to worry, this is just your muscles contracting and retracting thousands of times every minute! In under half an hour, your session will be complete, and you’ll start noticing the benefits almost immediately.
Following Up
As you stand up after your session, it’s common to feel a bit sore, much like you would after a hard leg workout. This typically only lasts a few hours after your treatment and is generally the only side effect our patients encounter. Before you leave, our front desk will ensure your next session is scheduled, and then you’re free to get back to your day with absolutely no recovery time required.
To ensure complete results, we recommend undergoing 6 to 9 sessions, depending on your individual needs. Following your initial set of treatments, results can last up to 18 months with minimal maintenance or additional options required.
Expanding Your Results With Emsculpt NEO
While additional treatments aren’t always required, we often recommend expanding on the pelvic floor benefits of Emsella with the core-enhancing power of Emsculpt NEO! This device uses the same HIFEM technology found in Emsella with the added benefits of powerful radiofrequency (RF) heating. In addition to engaging your abdominal muscles over 20,000 times in a single session, this device uses thermal energy to melt subcutaneous fat and provide a stronger, more sculpted core!
Emsella and Emsculpt NEO go together like peanut butter and jelly because your core muscles are also crucial to many of the same functions. This is where the phrase core to floor wellness comes from. Improved mobility, posture, and overall confidence are all major benefits of this excellent pairing. But the benefits don’t stop there!
Supplementing Your Success
The Institute for Hormonal Balance takes an all-encompassing approach to total wellness and aesthetics. So as we build your treatment plan to include Emsella, we may also recommend ways to further improve the results of your pelvic floor therapy in Arlington. These are a few of our favorite treatments that improve our patients’ lives even further!
Hormone Replacement Therapy
For many patients, muscle weakening, incontinence, and sexual dysfunction can also be linked to out-of-balance hormones. Improper levels of testosterone, estrogen, thyroid hormones, and other hormones can impact muscle growth, cellular health, and many aspects of your mental health. To rebuild a healthy balance, we recommend customized BHRT therapy to ensure complete results from your pelvic floor therapy.
Weight Management
Achieving a healthy optimal weight can also be beneficial for your pelvic floor health and sexual wellness. Patients that struggle with incontinence or sexual dysfunction often are not at a healthy weight for their stature, and we can help with options such as semaglutide, tirzepetide, vitamin injections, Metabolic analysis with PNOE, dietary guidance, and more.
Explore Your BHRT Options
P-Shot & O-Shot
Emsella is a powerful option to improve sexual wellness with enhancements on core muscles, however patients looking to elevate their experience even further often look into the P-Shot or the O-Shot which focus on tissue health. These injections deliver platelet-rich plasma (PRP) directly to the intimate areas that need restoration the most. PRP is derived from your own blood cells and works to naturally improve tissues and nerve health. These injections help both men and women enjoy the experience like never before!
For men, achieving and maintaining an erection is easier thanks to improved smooth muscle tissue and a stronger pelvic floor. Dive deeper into how this works with our related read.
Giving Guys a Shot at Confidence
Ladies experiencing dryness, lack of sensation, or even incontinence can benefit from these injections as they restore the sensitive tissues and muscles. Learn what our favorite female patients are saying about their results in this additional read!
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There’s More In Store at the Institute
No matter what brings you in, the Institute for Hormonal Balance is here to bring out your best. From advanced aesthetic treatments to cutting-edge wellness options, we’re proud to be the practice that thousands of Texans trust for everything they need to feel better than ever! Discover what’s in store for you by contacting our team, scheduling an in-person appointment, or taking our virtual treatment planning tool for a test drive.
