Postpartum Physical Therapy
Your body deserves support as it heals after birth. Bloom helps you restore core and pelvic floor function, ease pain, and return to daily life with confidence.
Postpartum recovery after vaginal birth
Recommended starting around 6 weeks postpartum, or earlier with clearance from your healthcare provider.
Pregnancy and vaginal delivery can affect the pelvic floor, abdominal wall, posture, hips, and the way you breathe and manage pressure. Your care plan is personalized to your birth experience, current symptoms, and the activities you want to return to. This option is designed for patients who want to restore pelvic floor, core, scar, and whole-body function after a vaginal delivery.
Common reasons to seek support
- Bladder leakage or urinary urgency
- Pelvic pressure, heaviness, or prolapse symptoms
- Pelvic floor tightness or difficulty relaxing
- Pain with sex or penetration
- Perineal scar sensitivity after tearing or episiotomy
- Core weakness or a feeling of disconnection
- Diastasis recti concerns
- Low-back, sacroiliac joint, hip, or tailbone pain
- Neck, shoulder, wrist, or thumb pain from feeding and baby care
- Plantar fascia or foot pain
- Difficulty returning to running, lifting, exercise, or sport
- Uncertainty about how to lift, carry, or move with your baby
What is included
Pelvic floor evaluation
With your consent, an internal pelvic floor evaluation can assess muscle strength, coordination, tension, scar mobility, and signs of pelvic organ prolapse. An external assessment is also available when an internal examination is not appropriate or preferred.
Pelvic floor rehabilitation
Treatment may address leakage, urgency, pelvic pressure, tightness, painful intercourse, pelvic pain, or difficulty coordinating the pelvic floor. Your plan may include relaxation, strengthening, scar mobilization, breathing, and pressure-management strategies based on what your body needs.
Perineal scar care
Gentle scar mobilization can improve tissue mobility and reduce sensitivity after a tear or episiotomy. Treatment is always consent-based and paced for your comfort.
Core rehabilitation
We assess diastasis recti, breathing patterns, abdominal coordination, and pressure management. You will learn how to reconnect your core and gradually rebuild strength for lifting, exercise, and daily life.
Pelvic floor biofeedback
Biofeedback may be used to help you see how your pelvic floor activates and relaxes. It can improve awareness, coordination, and confidence during rehabilitation.
Posture and movement retraining
We practice the positions and movements you use every day, including feeding, lifting from the floor, carrying your baby, getting out of bed, and using a car seat or stroller. The goal is to reduce strain while rebuilding strength through real-life movement.
Orthopedic care
Your postpartum plan can also address low-back pain, sacroiliac joint pain, neck pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, wrist or thumb pain, and foot symptoms. We treat the whole person rather than separating pelvic health from the rest of the body.
Shockwave therapy
For persistent tendon pain, such as plantar fasciitis or wrist and thumb pain from feeding and baby care, shockwave therapy may help stimulate healing and reduce pain sensitivity. It is used only after an evaluation and as part of a broader rehabilitation plan.
Return-to-activity guidance
We help you progress toward walking, lifting, work, fitness classes, running, strength training, or sport. Your return is based on symptoms, strength, control, and readiness rather than a one-size-fits-all timeline.
Postpartum recovery after cesarean birth
Recommended starting around 6 weeks postpartum, or earlier with clearance from your healthcare provider.
A C-section is both childbirth and major abdominal surgery. Rehabilitation can support incision healing, restore core and pelvic floor coordination, reduce pain, and help you move more comfortably as you care for your baby. This option is designed for patients who want to improve incision mobility, reconnect the core, restore pelvic floor function, and rebuild full-body strength after surgery.
Common reasons to seek support
- Incision tightness, pulling, sensitivity, or numbness
- Abdominal weakness or a feeling of core disconnection
- Diastasis recti concerns
- Difficulty standing upright, rolling in bed, or getting up from a chair
- Bladder leakage or urinary urgency
- Pelvic floor tightness, pressure, or pain
- Pain with sex or penetration
- Low-back, sacroiliac joint, hip, or pelvic pain
- Neck, shoulder, wrist, or thumb pain from feeding and baby care
- Plantar fascia or foot pain
- Difficulty lifting, carrying, or returning to exercise
- Fear or uncertainty about using the abdominal muscles after surgery
What is included
C-section scar rehabilitation
Once the incision is medically healed, scar massage and soft tissue mobilization may improve mobility and reduce tightness or sensitivity around the abdomen. Treatment is gentle, gradual, and guided by tissue healing.
Pelvic floor evaluation
Pregnancy itself can affect pelvic floor strength, tension, coordination, bladder control, and pelvic pressure, even without a vaginal delivery. With your consent, an internal or external evaluation can identify what type of pelvic floor support is appropriate.
Reconnect your core and rebuild strength
We assess abdominal coordination, breathing, diastasis recti, and pressure management before progressing strength. Exercises are designed to help you trust your core again and use it effectively during daily movement.
Posture and movement retraining
We help you move more comfortably during bed mobility, feeding, lifting, carrying, and floor transfers. You will practice strategies that protect the healing abdomen without creating long-term guarding or stiffness.
Pelvic floor biofeedback
Biofeedback may help you improve awareness of pelvic floor activation and relaxation. It can be useful when rebuilding coordination between the breath, core, and pelvic floor after pregnancy and surgery.
Orthopedic care
Your plan may also address low-back pain, sacroiliac joint pain, neck pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, wrist or thumb pain, and foot symptoms. Postpartum recovery is treated as a whole-body process.
Shockwave therapy
For persistent tendon pain, such as plantar fasciitis or wrist and thumb pain from feeding and baby care, shockwave therapy may help stimulate healing and reduce pain sensitivity. It is used only after an evaluation and as part of a broader rehabilitation plan.
Return-to-activity guidance
We guide your progression back to lifting, exercise, work, running, strength training, and sport. Your plan advances according to healing, symptoms, strength, and movement confidence.
Pricing
Start your postpartum recovery with a plan tailored to your birth experience, symptoms, and goals.
- 1 Initial Full-Body Evaluation
- 1 Pelvic Health Evaluation
- 3 Pelvic Health Follow-Up Visits
- 5 standard Follow-Up Visits
Typically completed over 3-5 months.
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