>----- Original Message -----
From: "IAS Admin (Tracy)" <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:11 AM
Subject: Ultra Sound
>
> Subject: Re: Ultra Sound
>
> ".....Also
> >recommended that I start physical therapy to help with the adhesions. He
> >doesn't seem to think the pain I am having are from adhesions but from
> >my week abdominal wall. So the physical therapy is to strenghten my
> >abdominal wall and help me to move since it hurts to stretch upwards.
> >The physical therapist is also doing Ultra Sound on my abdominal area
> >where I am having all the pain. I have been for 8 visits and so far
> >this physical therapy has not helped at all. Has anyone else tried this
> >treatment for adhesions? If so, has it helped?....."
> >
> >--
> >Leanne
>
> Leanne,
>
> I have been to 2 physical therapists after a urogynecologist at Mayo,
> who spent a couple of very 'rushed' minutes with me, decided I had
> Pelvic Floor Tension Myalgia, and he said I should try physical
> therapists I found on my own. I also saw a gastro at Mayo who decided I
> had non-relaxing puborectalis muscles after an anal manometry and
> defecography test. He wanted me to go through their 2-week intensive
> physical therapy focusing on biofeedback to supposedly re-train me for
> pelvic floor dysfunction, but my insurance would not cover anything
> coded as biofeedback and it would have cost me between $6,000.00
> $7,000.00 so I couldn't do it.