Pelvic Floor Therapy in North Liberty.

For leaking, urgency, pressure, pain with sex, or a core that never came back. Named plainly, treated privately, and nothing happens that you have not agreed to.

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What It Is

The muscles nobody taught you about.

Your pelvic floor is a group of muscles, like any other group of muscles. It can be too weak, too tight, or badly coordinated with your breathing and your hips. Each of those produces a different problem, and squeezing harder only helps one of them.

Pelvic Floor Therapy at Motion Matters is led by Dr. Alex Furtado, DPT, CPPC. Over a decade of practice in New England across orthopedics, sports physical therapy and pelvic health. Trained as a birth and postpartum doula, with certifications in fitness through pregnancy, postpartum recovery and the menopause transition.

Your first visit starts with a conversation and a movement evaluation, not an exam. An internal exam is one option for assessing these muscles. It is never a requirement. It gets explained before it is ever offered, it happens only if you say yes, and you can decline it or stop at any point without a single awkward moment.

Then you get the same thing every patient here gets: a cause-first evaluation, one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit, and a plan with an endpoint.

A person holding a bridge position on an exercise mat, a core exercise used in pelvic floor therapy Internal exam: one option, never required

What It Helps

Say it plainly. We have heard it.

You have already looked this up at two in the morning, and you have already been told it is just what happens after kids. It is common. Common is not the same as normal, and it is not the same as permanent. Waiting mostly teaches you which activities to quietly give up.

Leaking when you cough, laugh or run Heaviness, like something is dropping Pain with sex, or pain nobody has named A core that never came back after birth Bowel movements that take real work Urgency that maps your whole day around bathrooms

What A Session Looks Like

How the first visit goes.

1

We talk. You say as much as you want.

2

We assess movement, posture and breathing.

3

You leave with a plan you agreed to.

Why It Works

Four reasons it beats waiting it out.

Control you can trust again in public.

Sex that stops being something to dread.

Lifting your kid without bracing first.

A plan with an endpoint, not managing it forever.

Pairs Well With

Pelvic Floor Therapy rarely works alone.

Physical Therapy Your pelvic floor works with your hips, your back and your ribs. We treat all of it. Breath, Movement and Stretching Breath is how a pelvic floor that is stuck tight learns to let go again.

Questions, Answered

Pelvic Floor Therapy, no mystery.

No. An internal exam is one option for assessing pelvic floor muscles, and it is never a requirement for care here. Dr. Alex Furtado explains exactly what it involves before it is ever offered, it happens only with your consent, and you can decline it or stop at any point. A great deal of useful work happens without one, so if the answer is no, the answer is simply no.

No. Kegels are for a pelvic floor that is too weak. Plenty of the symptoms we see come from a pelvic floor that is too tight or badly coordinated with breathing, and squeezing harder makes those worse rather than better. The evaluation is how we find out which problem you actually have, before anyone hands you an exercise.

It depends on your plan. We will check your benefits for you before your first visit, so the cost is not a surprise you find out about later. Questions before then? Call us at (319) 382-2743 and a real person picks up.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon-Fri: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • (319) 382-2743 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • No referral needed in Iowa

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