It’s common. That’s not the same thing.
You leak when you laugh or lift. Sex hurts. There’s a dragging heaviness, like something won’t stay put. You plan your day around where the bathrooms are. Your tailbone or hips or low back ache, and nobody can find why.
Women and men. Everybody has a pelvic floor.
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Watch first
Amber Anderson, PT — the only residency-trained, board-certified pelvic health specialist in Louisiana. She grew up in Baker, trained at LSU, and came home to build the clinic she couldn’t find here. Every therapist at Restoration is trained in her approach.
3 in 4women will leak at some point
Hardly any of them bring it up. It gets filed under what happens after babies, or after forty, or after menopause, and it sits there for years while everybody assumes it’s the price of admission.
Men aren’t exempt. They just hear about it even less, so they wait longer.
Your pelvic floor score
Six areas, about twenty things people get told are normal. It takes two minutes, nothing submits anywhere, and at the end you get a score and can decide for yourself whether a call is worth your time.
Everybody has a pelvic floor, so this is for everybody.
Nothing is saved or sent anywhere. It’s just for you.
Nothing checked yet.
If you’ve seen other doctors, maybe many, and your tests came back clear with no answers — but you’re still dealing with any of this — you’re not alone. Most of what’s on this list never shows up on a scan or a lab. It shows up in how a muscle is behaving, and that’s what an evaluation looks at.
About the Kegels
You weren’t doing them wrong, and you didn’t fail at them.
You were given advice that’s about fifteen years out of date.
A pelvic floor gets weak in two different ways. They need opposite things, and only one of them needs Kegels.
One kind
Stretched out and not holding. Kegels are exactly right here, and these folks do beautifully with them.
How often we see itThree or four people a year
The other kind
Gripping, exhausted, never letting go. Picture a bodybuilder so bulked up he can’t wash his own hair — all that strength, and he can’t use any of it. Squeezing harder makes it worse.
How often we see itNearly everybody who walks in
The research changed in 2011. Most of the advice didn’t.
What happens here
We see the whole person, not one muscle group. Muscle and joint overlap with your bladder and bowels. Those overlap with your hormones, and with a nervous system that’s been on alert for however long it’s been on alert. Treating the muscle and ignoring the rest is, in Amber’s words, narrow-minded, so we don’t.
One-on-one with your therapist, the entire time you’re booked. Nobody is running you through exercises while they watch two other rooms.
Evaluations run ninety minutes. Follow-ups vary. Nothing gets cut short because of what an insurance code pays for.
Amber built the method and trains every therapist here in it. Who you see changes; how you’re assessed and why doesn’t.
Not a printout of exercises. An explanation of what’s going on and what we’re doing about it.
Most people arrive unsure how to describe it, or embarrassed by the parts they can. That’s part of the work, and it goes at your pace.
Men, women, athletes, people who’ve never been pregnant. A pelvic floor is a muscle group, and we treat all of them.
Launch pad, not landing ground — a place people graduate from, not depend on forever.
Not just better, but fully restored: back to whatever you quit doing, whether that’s running, the trampoline, sex or a long drive without planning the stops, and knowing how to hold onto it on your own.
The next step
Thirty minutes on the phone with Nadia, our patient experience manager. No charge, no exam, no gown, and nobody selling you anything.
She’ll ask what’s been going on — the version you’d tell a friend, not the one you’d give a receptionist. She’ll tell you whether what you’re describing is something we treat, what it usually takes to fix, and what working with us looks like. If this is the right place, she’ll get your evaluation on the calendar while you’re still on the phone.
If it isn’t, she’ll help you find somewhere better.
Either way you get off the phone knowing more than you did before you called, which is more than most people have after a year — or more — of wondering.
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Not sure yet? — it takes two minutes.
Before you call
Ninety minutes with your therapist. An unhurried conversation about your history — not a clipboard — then a movement assessment and a pelvic floor evaluation. You’ll leave understanding what’s going on and what the plan is.
It’s usually part of a thorough pelvic floor evaluation, and it’s the thing most people are worried about before they call. However, we’re here to support your healing and your process, so nothing happens without your consent. Everything gets explained before it happens, and you can decline any part of it at any point, including partway through. Saying no doesn’t mean we can’t help you.
No. You can book an evaluation without anyone’s permission.
Then you’re exactly who we want to talk to. Usually the answer isn’t more of the same exercises — it’s that something got missed, or the exercises were fine but the reasoning behind them was wrong. Working out why the last thing didn’t work is most of the first visit.
Long enough to fix it and not longer. You’ll leave the evaluation with a plan of care, and the point is that you finish it.
No, and it’s a fair question. We’re out of network on purpose. Insurance decides how long a visit can be and what counts as worth treating, and that’s how you end up somewhere with one therapist running three rooms and fifteen minutes of actual attention. Being out of network is what lets us give you the whole appointment.
We’ll give you a superbill to submit for reimbursement. Some people get part of it back, some don’t, and we can’t promise which.
If insurance is the only way this works for you right now, say so on the call. We’d rather talk through the options with you than have you assume the door is closed. And if we still aren’t the right fit, there are good in-network pelvic floor therapists in Baton Rouge and we’re glad to point you toward one.
Nadia will give you exact numbers on the call, before anything is scheduled, and there’s more than one option depending on what you need.
What matters now: this is an investment, not a copay. Most people see real improvement in three or four visits, so you’re paying to fix something rather than to manage it forever. But it’s money out of pocket, and you should know that going in.
Most people wait years before they call. Not because they don’t care — because it’s awkward to bring up, and because somebody already told them it was normal.
This rarely sorts itself out. A pelvic floor that’s been compensating for five years is a harder problem than one that’s been compensating for one. Not impossible. Just longer, and you spend those years planning your day around it.
You’ve already done the hardest bit, which is looking it up.
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