Rectal Is Not a Last Resort

Pelvic PT Rising · Oct 9, 2023 · 25m · transcript

Do you feel like rectal treatment is a 'last resort' in your practice?

We go into why many practitioners are far more comfortable treating vaginally than rectally (it has a lot to do with how many of us were trained).

But without rectal evaluation and treatment, we're literally missing half (the anal triangle) of the pelvic floor!

When rectal is a 'last resort', a few things can happen. Either:

We don't d it at all for our patients

We only do it in 'obvious' situations - bowel complaints, tailbone pain, etc. - but not for many of our other patients

We do it late in the plan of care after the…