Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy in Toronto
Pelvic floor symptoms can have a drastic effect on the quality of everyday life – from mild discomfort with intimacy to constant bladder awareness and urine leakage. For many women, these concerns feel embarrassing, “too personal,” or simply something they’re told to accept after childbirth, surgery, or menopause.
At Sovereign Female in downtown Toronto, we don’t see pelvic floor dysfunction as something you should live with. We see it as a treatable disorder that deserves the same thoughtful care as any other part of your body. Pelvic floor physiotherapy in Toronto, complemented by advanced technologies like Fotona StarFormer, can help strengthen or relax muscles that support and regulate the function of your bladder, bowel, and uterus, restoring daily comfort while also supporting long-term pelvic health.
What Is the Pelvic Floor?
The pelvic floor consists of muscles and connective tissues that support and “wrap around” important organs in your pelvis, like your bladder, vagina, uterus, rectum, and part of your spine. These muscles hold the organs in place while also providing the ability to control bodily functions like urinating, defecating, or having intercourse.
When these muscles are too weak, too tight, poorly coordinated, or affected by nerve changes, pelvic floor dysfunction can develop. Weak or tight pelvic floor symptoms may present as urine leakage, constipation, pelvic pressure, pain with intercourse, or several symptoms at once.
What Is Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy?
Pelvic floor muscle physiotherapy (sometimes called vaginal floor therapy or pelvic floor PT) is a subspecialty of physiotherapy focused on assessing and treating the muscles and joints that make up the pelvic floor “hammock” within the pelvis, as well as related muscles and joints in the lower back, hips, and abdomen.
It is not just “doing Kegels.” In fact, many patients who have diligently tried Kegel exercises at home find that their symptoms don’t improve or sometimes get worse, because the underlying problem is not simply weakness.
Pelvic Floor Therapy at Sovereign Female
Sovereign Female is a women’s health and wellness clinic in downtown Toronto that focuses on intimate health, hormones, and body confidence, with an emphasis on safe, medically guided care.
We offer one-on-one pelvic floor therapy led by experienced pelvic health providers. Depending on the condition, we may recommend several services, such as Fotona Starformer, hormone therapy, or vaginal laser treatments.
At Sovereign Female, we see patients of many ages, fitness levels, and backgrounds. If your symptoms are affecting your comfort, mobility, relationships, or confidence, that is enough reason to be assessed. Pelvic floor therapy in Toronto may be useful for:
- pregnant and postpartum patients
- perimenopausal and postmenopausal women
- patients after gynaecologic surgery
- women with complex pain conditions or cancer-related symptoms
Our pelvic floor professionals may also collaborate with your family doctor, urogynecologist, oncologist, or other specialists to make sure your pelvic care doesn’t exist in a silo.
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Treatment with Fotona
StarFormer
If you are suffering from pelvic floor dysfunction, you may benefit from supplementing regular pelvic floor therapy in Toronto with Fotona Starformer: a way to stimulate deep pelvic floor muscles more intensely and more consistently than you can do on your own.
What is Fotona StarFormer?
Fotona StarFormer is a non-invasive system that uses High-Intensity Tesla Stimulation (HITS), a focused magnetic field, to trigger deep muscle contractions. For pelvic health, specific protocols are designed to activate the entire pelvic floor region while you remain fully clothed and seated on a treatment chair.
How Does Fotona StarFormer Help Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?
Unlike traditional exercises, which depend on your ability to find and contract the right muscles, StarFormer delivers repeated, rhythmical contractions to those muscles without effort on your part. Over several treatments, this can improve the strength, endurance, and coordination of the pelvic floor muscles.
At Sovereign Female, Fotona StarFormer may be incorporated to:
- support the treatment of stress urinary incontinence
- improve pelvic floor muscle endurance
- assist in postpartum pelvic rehabilitation (once appropriately cleared)
- complement laser-based treatments already offered at our clinic for urinary incontinence and vaginal laxity
StarFormer Pelvic Floor Treatment: What to Expect
Each StarFormer session typically lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. During treatment, you will sit on a specially designed chair with built-in magnetic applicators, fully dressed. The device will generate a pulsed magnetic field that will pass through your clothing and skin to stimulate the nerves that control your pelvic floor muscles. You will feel strong, repetitive contractions in the pelvic and perineal area, but should not experience any pain or significant discomfort.
Over time, this repetitive training can:
- Increase the strength of the muscles that support the bladder and urethra
- Improve the timing of muscle activation during coughs, lifts, or impact
- Reduce episodes of leakage or “almost leaks”
- Enhance support for mild pelvic organ prolapse
- Complement the work you are doing in pelvic floor physiotherapy sessions
Fotona StarFormer Before and After: Treatment Results
After a series of StarFormer treatments, patients often report:
- fewer leaks with coughing, running, or lifting
- less urgency or fewer bathroom trips “just in case”
- more confidence returning to exercise, travel, or social events
- improved sensation of pelvic support
- better comfort with intimacy
Some people notice meaningful change within a few weeks. Other patients need a full series and maintenance sessions. During your consultation, we’ll be honest with you about likely outcomes and how StarFormer fits into your realistic options.
Who Can Benefit from Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy for Urinary Incontinence
Urinary leakage is common, but it is not a sign that you “waited too long” or that this is simply the price of childbirth or age. Estimates suggest that at least a quarter of women and a significant number of men experience some form of urinary incontinence, yet many never seek help.
At Sovereign Female, we offer dedicated stress urinary incontinence laser treatments and other intimate therapies, which can be combined with physiotherapy and StarFormer when appropriate.
Pelvic Health and Pregnancy
Pregnancy places new demands on your pelvis and abdominal wall. Pelvic floor physiotherapy can help:
- manage pelvic girdle or low back pain during pregnancy
- prepare the pelvic floor for birth by relaxing the muscles
- support postpartum recovery after abdominal separation (diastasis recti)
- address urinary incontinence, prolapse symptoms, and pain with intercourse after delivery
Once cleared medically, some postpartum patients may later benefit from Fotona StarFormer to rebuild pelvic floor endurance and support return to higher-impact exercise.
Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Therapy for Athletes
High-impact and strength-based sports can stress the pelvic floor even in people who seem “very fit.” Professional athletes often experience:
- leaks during heavy lifting or high-impact drills
- deep pelvic, groin, or sit-bone pain
- a feeling of pelvic pressure during intense training
For athletes, treatment often focuses heavily on technique, breathing, and graded return to sport. StarFormer can play a role here too by building baseline pelvic floor endurance so the muscles can better tolerate high training loads.
The Pelvic Floor, Menopause, and Cancer
Falling estrogen levels during perimenopause and menopause can thin and dry vaginal tissue, reduce elasticity, and alter the urinary tract. During this period, many women notice new symptoms like vaginal dryness, pain with intercourse, recurrent infections, or worsening leakage.
Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy and hormone therapies, can trigger a similar picture at a much younger age, especially in breast cancer survivors on aromatase inhibitors.
Fotona StarFormer may be recommended alongside other therapies to help restore muscular support around the bladder and urethra in selected patients.
Other Pelvic Health Disorders
Beyond urinary incontinence, pelvic floor therapy at Sovereign Female may help with:
- Pelvic organ prolapse (mild to moderate)
- Chronic pelvic pain and vulvodynia
- 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 defecatory dysfunction
Where appropriate, the StarFomer treatment may be combined with the clinic’s other offerings, such as vaginal laser therapies, genitourinary syndrome of menopause treatment, or urinary incontinence procedures.
Women’s Health Services Offered at Sovereign Female
Because pelvic health rarely exists in isolation, it helps to receive care in a clinic that understands hormones, sexual health, and intimate concerns as a whole. At Sovereign Female, pelvic floor therapy can be combined with:
- hormone replacement therapy
- Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause treatment
- non-surgical vaginal rejuvenation (IntimaLase)
- stress urinary incontinence laser treatment
- surgical vaginal rejuvenation and/or labiaplasty
- urinary incontinence and vaginal atrophy treatment
- body sculpting and wellness services such as IV drips and B12 injections
Why Choose Sovereign Female for Pelvic Floor Therapy in Toronto?
Whatever treatment we recommend, we take time to explain each step, seek informed consent at every stage, and move at a pace that respects your comfort. Many patients choose to treat pelvic floor dysfunction at our Toronto clinic, because we offer:
- a convenient location in downtown Toronto
- focused expertise in female health, hormones, and intimate wellness
- access to advanced technologies
- a private, respectful environment
Treat Pelvic Floor Dysfunction with Fotona StarFormer in Toronto
If you are experiencing pelvic floor symptoms and want options beyond “just live with it,” we welcome you to book a confidential consultation at Sovereign Female in Toronto. We will review your concerns, examine your pelvic health, and design a plan that may include Fotona StarFormer or other evidence-based treatments tailored to your needs.
