At my first appointment I was understandably nervous, not knowing what was going to happen.  The Pelvic Floor Therapy Rooms are in the back, so it’s nice and quiet and you have your privacy.  At that first appointment there was lots of talking, so that the therapist could get to know me, my history, my symptoms, etc., and I could get to know the therapist, and what to expect from my first treatment session.  The women who do the Pelvic Floor Therapy at FPT are awesome, I have had the experience to be able to work with three of them.  I started my treatments with Rachael, who has since moved on, Kristen took over my therapy when Rachael left, and I saw another woman when someone was on vacation.  They have all been very gentle and kind, and I feel like they know my body better than I do.  Just by asking me how I feel, they know exactly were the tense muscles are, and they can tell when they start relaxing.  They also know when I’m tense, even if I don’t, and they taught me breathing exercises to help during my therapy sessions.  These breathing exercises have crossed over into my everyday life.  My pain is worse when I’m stressed, so I use the breathing exercises to relax, and that helps the pain go away.  Before FPT, being intimate with my husband was extremely painful, to the point of being impossible, but with the therapy, my home care, and the breathing exercises, being intimate has become much less painful. I still have Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, I don’t know when I’ll be able to say I no longer have it, but FPT has taught me how to live with it, without being on pain killers and living in that pain killer fog.  I can honestly say that Folsom Physical Therapy has given me my life back.