If you have endometriosis then you know how it affects so many aspects of daily life– it’s not just about the debilitating pain around your period.

Uterine pain or pain from endometriosis lesions and adhesions can cause the surrounding muscles–abdominals, hips, back, pelvic floor– to protectively tense and guard the area of pain. This muscular response is a typical protective response that occurs anywhere we experience intense pain.

Over time this muscular guarding of the pelvic area can result in chronic pelvic and vaginal pain, painful intercourse–from tissue shortening and chronic tension– and can contribute to poor fluid drainage of the pelvis and abdomen i.e. bloat and congestion. As a side note, this type of muscle holding in the pelvic area also contributes to jaw tension.

The way that pelvic physiotherapy and osteopathy treatment helps with these effects is by helping the tense and short muscles stretch and lengthen and then strengthen, and also by decongesting the abdomen and pelvis with lymphatic drainage. Visceral manipulation is an osteopathic technique that is also very helpful in normalizing, as much as possible, the mobility of the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries, colon and intestines.

Contact me if you are interested further information about or treatment for this condition.