Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Toronto
Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common, treatable medical condition, and at Sovereign Skin in downtown Toronto, advanced treatments help restore strength, control, and comfort.
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?
Urine leakage when you sneeze, a constant need to know where the nearest washroom is, discomfort with intimacy, or a feeling of heaviness in the pelvis can all be signs of pelvic floor dysfunction. These symptoms affect people of all genders, at different ages and stages of life.
While these issues may feel private or even embarrassing, it is important to recognize that pelvic floor dysfunction is a functional medical concern – not something you should learn to live with. At Sovereign Skin in downtown Toronto, we offer advanced procedures like Fotona StarFormer to help retrain, strengthen, or relax the muscles that support and regulate your bladder and bowel function.
What Is the Pelvic Floor?
The pelvic floor is a group of muscles, ligaments, and connective tissue at the base of your pelvis that support your bladder, bowel, reproductive organs, and part of your spine.
When the pelvic floor is working well, you can:
- hold and release urine and stool when you choose
- support your pelvic organs during day-to-day movement and exercise
- maintain comfortable sexual function
- stabilize the lower back, hips, and core
Pelvic floor dysfunction can develop when these muscles are weakened, shortened and overactive, poorly coordinated, or affected by nerve changes or past injury. Symptoms may include the following:
- Leaking urine when coughing, laughing, or lifting
- Urgency when urinating
- Difficulty urinating or fully emptying the bladder
- Constipation or straining with bowel movements
- Pelvic pressure or a “dragging” sensation
- Pain with intercourse, erection, or ejaculation
- Deep pain in the pelvic, groin, or tailbone region
Because these symptoms often feel intimate, many patients delay addressing the problem. The result is often years of workarounds rather than treatment. Pelvic floor physiotherapy in Toronto offers a structured way to address these problems directly.
What Is Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy?
Pelvic floor physiotherapy (also called pelvic floor PT or pelvic floor rehabilitation therapy) is a specialized form of physiotherapy that focuses on how the muscles, joints, and nerves of the pelvis, hips, abdomen, and lower back work together.
Toronto Pelvic Floor Therapy at Sovereign Skin
Sovereign Skin is a non-surgical laser and wellness clinic in downtown Toronto with a strong focus on intimate health, advanced technology, and medically supervised care suitable for adults of all ages and genders. We often work with:
- women during pregnancy and after childbirth
- perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients
- men and women suffering from urinary incontinence or pelvic pain
- individuals recovering from pelvic or abdominal surgery
- professional or recreational athletes with “performance-related” pelvic symptoms
Depending on the specifics of your pelvic floor dysfunction, your treatment plan at Sovereign Skin may involve:
- Fotona StarFormer magnetic pelvic floor strengthening
- Laser-based stress urinary incontinence treatments
- Collaboration with gynaecologists, urologists, or other specialists in our network
If your symptoms are affecting your confidence, mobility, or relationships, that alone is a good reason to be assessed. You do not need to reach a certain severity for pelvic floor therapy to be “worth it.”
Sovereign Skin is a non-surgical laser and wellness clinic in downtown Toronto with a strong focus on intimate health, advanced technology, and medically supervised care suitable for adults of all ages and genders. We often work with:
- women during pregnancy and after childbirth
- perimenopausal and postmenopausal patients
- men and women suffering from urinary incontinence or pelvic pain
- individuals recovering from pelvic or abdominal surgery
- professional or recreational athletes with “performance-related” pelvic symptoms
Depending on the specifics of your pelvic floor dysfunction, your treatment plan at Sovereign Skin may involve:
- Fotona StarFormer magnetic pelvic floor strengthening
- Laser-based stress urinary incontinence treatments
- Collaboration with gynaecologists, urologists, or other specialists in our network
If your symptoms are affecting your confidence, mobility, or relationships, that alone is a good reason to be assessed. You do not need to reach a certain severity for pelvic floor therapy to be “worth it.”
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Treatment with Fotona StarFormer
What is Fotona StarFormer?
Fotona StarFormer is a non-invasive device that uses High-Intensity Tesla Stimulation (HITS) to create a focused magnetic field around the pelvis. This field penetrates through your skin and clothes to create rapid, repeated contractions in deep muscle groups.
For pelvic health, specific StarFormer protocols are used to target the pelvic floor muscles while you sit fully clothed on a treatment chair.
How Does Fotona StarFormer Help Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?
Conventional exercises rely on your ability to correctly activate and relax the right muscles. For many people with pelvic floor issues, this is difficult, especially if there is pain, nerve involvement, or a long history of poor muscle habits. Instead, StarFormer uses pulsed magnetic stimulation to trigger repetitive contractions of pelvic floor muscles, improving neuromuscular control over time.
A series of StarFormer sessions can help:
- support the treatment of stress urinary incontinence
- increase the strength and endurance of pelvic floor muscles
- improve the muscular support of the urethra and bladder
- assist post-partum or post-surgical rehabilitation, once medically cleared
- complement laser treatments for urinary incontinence or vaginal laxity in suitable patients
- enhance support for mild organ prolapse
StarFormer is not a stand-alone solution for everyone, but it can be a valuable addition to a well-designed pelvic floor treatment plan.
StarFormer Pelvic Floor Treatment: What to Expect
A typical StarFormer pelvic floor session at Sovereign Skin lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. Here is what most patients can expect:
- You remain fully dressed and sit on a specialized StarFormer chair.
- Magnetic applicators built into the seat generate a pulsed magnetic field.
- The pulses pass through clothing and soft tissue to reach the nerves that control the pelvic floor.
- You feel a series of strong contractions or “lifting” sensations in the pelvic and perineal area.
Most people describe the sensation as unusual but manageable, and they can relax, read, or listen to music during the session. Your provider will advise you on how many sessions are recommended for your situation and whether maintenance treatments may be helpful.
Fotona StarFormer Before and After: Treatment Results
Pelvic floor results are not easily captured in photos, so “before and after” is better judged in terms of function. After completing a StarFormer series, many patients report:
- Fewer leaks during day-to-day activities and exercise
- Less urgency or fewer bathroom trips “just in case”
- More confidence in social situations, sport, or travel
- A greater feeling of internal support in the pelvis
- More comfortable intimacy, particularly when treatment is combined with other intimate therapies
Some patients notice change within a few weeks, while others see gradual improvement over a full treatment course with follow-up sessions. During your consultation, the medical team at Sovereign Skin will discuss realistic expectations and how StarFormer fits into your overall care plan.
Who Can Benefit from Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy for Urinary Incontinence
Urinary incontinence is common in both men and women, although it often shows up in different ways. At Sovereign Skin, stress urinary incontinence laser treatments and other intimate procedures are available when needed and can be combined with physiotherapy and StarFormer for a more comprehensive approach.
Pelvic Health and Pregnancy
During pregnancy, changes in posture, hormones, and abdominal support place new demands on the pelvic floor and surrounding joints. Once cleared by your physician, Fotona StarFormer may be used in a later phase of recovery to rebuild pelvic floor endurance and to help with a safe return to higher-impact activity.
Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Therapy for Athletes
Competitive and recreational athletes sometimes develop pelvic floor issues despite being “strong” elsewhere. Heavy lifting or high-impact sports can overload and unbalance the pelvic floor muscles. StarFormer can perform pelvic floor therapy for athletes by building baseline pelvic floor endurance so that the muscles can tolerate higher training demands.
The Pelvic Floor, Menopause, and Cancer
Many women around menopause notice new or worsening leakage, vaginal discomfort, or recurrent urinary infections. Cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and hormone-blocking therapies, can create similar effects at a younger age. Men undergoing prostate treatment and women treated for breast or gynaecologic cancers may both experience pelvic floor changes as a result. In such situations, Fotona StarFormer can be used with other therapies to help restore muscular support around the bladder and urethra.
Other Pelvic Health Disorders
Pelvic floor-focused care at Sovereign Skin can also support the management of:
- mild to moderate pelvic organ prolapse
- chronic pelvic pain
- dyspareunia (pain with intercourse)
- vaginismus and overactive pelvic floor muscles
- interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome
- sacroiliac joint dysfunction and low back pain related to pelvic instability
- constipation and difficulty fully emptying the bowels
Intimate and Private Pelvic Health Services at Sovereign Skin
Pelvic health is closely linked with hormones, sexual function, and overall wellness. At Sovereign Skin, pelvic floor-focused care can be coordinated with the following:
- Laser gynecology treatments for stress urinary incontinence and vaginal laxity
- Non-surgical vaginal rejuvenation procedures
- Urinary incontinence treatments for both men and women
- Body sculpting procedures
- Wellness services such as IV therapy and vitamin injections that support general health and recovery
Your provider can help you decide which combination of therapies is appropriate and which are unnecessary for your case. The aim is a realistic plan, not a lengthy list of procedures.
Choose Sovereign Skin for Pelvic Floor Therapy in Toronto
If you are living with pelvic floor symptoms and would prefer something more proactive than “just put up with it,” Sovereign Skin can help you explore your options. More and more patients choose Sovereign Skin for pelvic floor therapy in Toronto, because we offer the following:
- A central downtown Toronto location close to transit
- A strong track record with advanced Fotona technologies, including StarFormer
- A private, respectful environment where intimate concerns are treated with professionalism
To learn more about pelvic floor physiotherapy and pelvic floor treatment in Toronto, contact us to schedule a confidential consultation.
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