Dear Pelvic Floor,
We've got this.
We’re going to do those jumping jacks, and leave the ground.
We’re going to be intimate with our partner, and enjoy it.
We’re going to go on that road trip, without needing to know where the next bathroom exit is.
We’re going to sit and watch that movie, in comfort and without pain.
We’re going to jump on the trampoline with our kids, and fly.
Katrina’s specialties
Pelvic Health
Pelvic health physical therapists treat the muscles and tissues in and around the pelvic floor. These muscles and tissues can affect bladder, bowel, and sexual health from menstruation through to menopause. Your therapist evaluates these muscles and tissues to assess strength, tone, reflexes, and coordination – to see if any issues might be related to the symptoms you are experiencing. This helps to guide the treatment sessions as well as your home exercise program and progression.
What Katrina treats (not an exhaustive list, but a solid start!):
- Pelvic pain (low back/hip/groin pain, sciatica, chronic pelvic pain, vaginismus, painful sex/dyspareunia, vulvodynia/vestibulodynia, coccygeal/tailbone pain, endometriosis/painful menstruation)
- Bladder Health (stress and urge urinary incontinence/leakage, prolapse, urinary retention, difficulty initiating urine flow, urinary urgency/frequency, overactive bladder, interstitial cystitis/painful bladder, chronic UTIs)
- Bowel Health (constipation, anal incontinence/leakage, rectal prolapse, rectal pain)
Pregnancy
During pregnancy, pelvic health physical therapists can help address body pain and discomfort and urinary leakage while your body is making these major changes and adaptations. Our goal is to empower you with the tools you need to thrive through pregnancy, allowing you to stay active and pain free during pregnancy, and prepare for postpartum healing.
What Katrina treats:
- Low back/hip/groin pain
- Pubic bone pain/pubic symphysitis
- Pelvic/vaginal pain
- Diastasis recti/abdominal separation
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Pelvic floor/core strengthening and coordination
- Urinary incontinence/leakage
- Fecal constipation
- Labor and delivery positioning/birth prep
Post Partum
Although this term is used primarily just after giving birth, one could say that postpartum lasts forever. It is never too late to address urinary leakage, abdominal separation, or vaginal pain (to name a few). Birthing a child is not an excuse for avoiding activities or returning to function, if you don’t want it to be. You’ve got this!
What Katrina treats:
- Painful sex/dyspareunia
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Low back/hip/groin pain
- Urinary incontinence/leakage
- Urinary urgency/frequency
- Urinary retention
- Fecal constipation
- Hemmorhoids
- Rectal pain
- Anal incontinence/leakage
- C-section or perineal/vaginal scar restriction
- Diastasis recti/abdominal separation
- Abdominal weakness
- Return to fitness/exercise
Menopause
Menopause can mean extensive physical, emotional, hormonal, and psychosocial changes for a woman. Pelvic floor physical therapists can help address any physical changes, as well as designing an aerobic and strength based plan to help mitigate those effects, and to build muscle and maintain bone density.
What Katrina treats:
- Painful sex/dyspareunia
- Stress and urge urinary incontinence
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Reduced libido
- Osteopenia/osteoporosis
- Bone density
- Weight gain
Male Pelvic Floor
Pelvic floor physical therapists can help men manage issues with urination, pelvic pain, bowel dysfunction, and sexual dysfunction related to pelvic floor weakness, tension, or impaired coordination. Pelvic floor dysfunction is not a condition experienced by only women – men have pelvic floors as well! Determining the impairment and path to returning to your appropriate baseline is imperative to returning to full function.
What Katrina treats:
- Post prostatectomy urinary symptoms
- Urinary retention
- Urinary urgency/frequency
- Groin/rectal/penile/scrotal/testicular pain
- Fecal constipation
Meet Dr. Katrina
Katrina received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Indiana University in 2008 and has been practicing solely in the field of pelvic health since 2010, empowering women, men, and the occasional pediatric patient.
After receiving her doctorate she has taken continuing education courses focusing in pelvic floor dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, bowel disorders, and female and male pelvic pain, to name a few.
Having been a patient in many locations over the years, Katrina really feels that she has honed the ability to give her patients the care and power that they deserve. She has personally experienced the good and the bad of biopsies, hospital births, a loss, a home birth, ER visits, abdominal surgeries, organ removal, menopause, HRT… and has opinions on all of this, but most of all finds it to be a FACT that no one knows your body and your experiences better than you. And no one should take that away from you.
Katrina believes that empowering patients to have faith in and believe in the strength of their own bodies is her superpower.
When not in the clinic, Katrina loves to read very fictional novels on her kindle, experiment in the kitchen (to mostly positive reviews from her family and friends), and spend quality time with her husband and three children. And sleep, when her kids let her. 
The Goods
These are a few of my favorite products for reference, in a handy location, just in case we decide that any of these would be beneficial during our sessions.
The Clinic
Appointments are held Mondays – Wednesdays at our clinic at 8202 Clearvista Parkway.
Patient Testimonials
