Adaptive intimacy is the practice of adjusting how you approach closeness, touch, and sexual activity so it stays comfortable and pleasurable when your body changes due to illness, injury, disability, aging, or medical treatment. It focuses on finding what works for your body now rather than returning to how things were before.

Pelvic floor therapy is specialized physical therapy that assesses and treats the pelvic floor muscles. A trained therapist may use guided exercises, manual techniques, and education to address pain, tightness, weakness, or coordination problems that affect comfort and intimacy.

The PLISSIT model is a framework clinicians use to talk about sexual health at increasing levels of support: Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, and Intensive Therapy. It helps providers meet people where they are when discussing intimacy.