Physical Therapy for Infertility

Manual Therapy

Women’s Health Physical therapists are often known for helping women during pregnancy and postpartum. But most people do not think to seek one out while they are trying to conceive.

Manual physical therapy can often be used as treatment for people who are struggling with infertility. A manual physical therapist can help to minimize adhesions, restrictions, and immobility in the body (through many methods, including visceral manipulation). Gone untreated, these can often cause a women’s ovaries to torsion/twist. This twisting of the ovaries can make it significantly harder for the sperm and egg to drop in where they need to so that they can implant in the uterus.

More information

Below are two great articles that include studies about the subject if you would like more information:

Manual Physical Therapy Can Help Reverse Female Infertility

Combined Manual Therapy Techniques for the Treatment of Women With Infertility: A Case Series

These studies show manual therapy as a treatment for infertility involving elevated FSH, Fallopian tube occlusion, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and premature ovarian failure, and other unexplained infertility (Mukdad, 2015).

Also check out our blog post on Trying to Conceive/Preconception Health

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You can find a Women’s Health PT here or here.

We hope this information is able to help some mamas out there. Reach out to us if you have any questions!

Krystle performing visceral manipulation.