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Laurie Byrne (PT, MPT) is the leading physical therapist in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction in Northern Colorado. She received her Master of Physical Therapy in 1997 from Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. In 1999, Laurie established her own physical therapy practice, specializing in obstetric and gynecologic physical therapy. Since then, she has expanded her practice to treat both women and men with pelvic floor dysfunction.

Laurie continues to advance her skills through continuing education coursework and has completed over 200 hours of women's health-specific continuing education. She is a frequent presenter at community and professional education seminars, and an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association, International Pelvic Pain Society and National Vulvodynia Association.

An estimated one-third of adult women suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction, a group of clinical conditions that includes urinary and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain. With the increased aging population, the national cost burden related to pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) is becoming enormous in terms of lost productivity, decreased quality of life and direct health care costs*.

Pelvic floor disorders most often plague women, but an increasingly growing number of men are also being diagnosed. Symptoms of PFD include urinary incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency, a feeling of incomplete urination, decreased urine flow and constipation, pelvic pain with intercourse, pain in the testicles (and/or penis), and pain in the lower back.

Often, patients and clinicians are unaware that effective treatment exists for these disorders. Laurie Byrne has been on the forefront of these techniques. Laurie provides a thorough evaluation and highly individualized treatment interventions that include exercise prescription, biofeedback training, soft-tissue techniques, patient education, electrotherapy on or near the pelvic floor, and behavioral/bladder retraining. Following treatment for urinary related issues, Laurie's patients generally experience a decrease in voiding frequency and urgency, along with improvement of pelvic floor muscle contraction quality, endurance and strength. In the treatment of painful urologic and gynecologic conditions, the expected outcomes include reduction of pain, and normalization of resting tone of the pelvic floor muscles.

* National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Office of Research on Women's Health. Basic science research on female pelvic floor disorders. February 1999.

Introducing a physical therapy practice that is uniquely focused on pelvic floor rehabilitation and musculoskeletal women's health issues throughout the lifespan. Patients will benefit from highly qualified expertise and individualized treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic girdle dysfunction, perinatal discomfort and urinary problems.

Who Will Benefit?

Pelvic floor disorders most often plague women, but an increasingly growing number of men are also being diagnosed. Symptoms of pelvic floor disorders include urinary incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency, a feeling of incomplete urination, decreased urine flow and constipation, pelvic pain with intercourse, pain in the testicles (and/or penis), and pain in the lower back.

Symptoms

Laurie specializes in providing physical therapy treatment for patients with the following conditions:

  1. Pelvic floor dysfunction
  2. Hypertonus
  3. Supportive dysfunctions
  4. Incoordination
  5. Disuse
  6. Neural entrapment
  7. Myofascial pelvic pain syndromes
  8. Pelvic girdle dysfunction
  9. Pelvic obliquity
  10. Ostitis pubis
  11. Sacroiliac and coccyx pain
  12. Groin pain
  13. Abdominal adhesions
  14. Urinary problems
  15. Urge, stress and mixed incontinence
  16. Urgency
  17. Frequency
  18. Urethral syndromes
  19. Perinatal discomfort
  20. Episiotomy and cesarean section scar tissue restrictions
  21. Diastasis recti
  22. Sciatica
  23. Obstetric low back pain