Involving your partner in your pelvic floor therapy may improve your outcomes and your relationship. Here are some ways you can involve your partner in your pelvic floor physical therapy: Start Talking About Your Experience. Both studies and clinical experience have shown that talking to your partner about your sexuality, pelvic floor issues, and sharing […]
What can a mother do to prepare her pelvic floor for pregnancy and childbirth? First, you might be asking yourself “what is the pelvic floor”? The pelvic floor is a group of muscles inside the pelvis that form a hammock from your pubic bone to your tailbone and from sit bone to sit bone on […]
Communicating with your partner about your sexuality may reduce your pelvic pain and increase your sexual function. A 2016 study by McNicoll et al. suggests that Sexual Assertiveness, or the ability to communicate openly to your partner about your sexual experience, may reduce the pain experienced with provoked vestibulodynia (PVD), increase sexual function, and encourage […]
Mommy tummy aka diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is a prevalent issue. One in three American moms have DRA that persists greater than a year. So what is a diastasis recti? It is the stretching of the linea alba, a connective tissue that runs down the midline of the abdomen and connects the abdominal muscles. The […]
Involuntary loss of urine during athletics is more common than you thought Athletic incontinence is a type of stress incontinence that happens during an athletic event. Stress incontinence is an involuntary loss of urine due to a pressure or force like coughing, sneezing or jumping. When most people think of urinary incontinence they do not […]
What studies say about returning to running as postpartum exercise Most of the therapists in our office are moms, and we intimately understand wanting to get back to exercise after delivery. Caution should be taken when returning to running postpartum – we see this clinically and research also shows postpartum movement strategy changes that can […]
There really is an app for everything… even pelvic floor exercises! And research proves supervised pelvic floor home exercise programs can reduce treatment time and result in significant improvement over in-office therapy alone. So why don’t all my patients have pelvic floor apps? Especially at the beginning of treatment, those exercises can be difficult enough […]
Endometriosis Affects 1 in 10 Women of Reproductive Age And yet the delay in diagnosis hovers around 8.5 years (Barbieri, 2017; Ballard, 2006), meaning that, on average a woman will experience 8.6 years of symptoms and disease progression before they are diagnosed with the disease. What is Endometriosis? Endometriosis is a condition where endometrial-like tissue […]
“The cure is worse than the disease.” We’ve all heard the cautionary proverb; but to someone desperate for a cure, it’s all too easy to ignore. Sadly, that’s been the outcome of too many vaginal mesh surgery cases. It’s a popular treatment for stress urinary incontinence, among other conditions; but many of these patients have […]
September is Healthy Aging Month! In recognition, this blog will talk about Menopause and how it can affect your genitals and sexual function. What Happens During Menopause? Menopause marks the end of the regular menstrual cycle and the transition to life beyond the reproductive period. Babies born with female anatomy have a set number of […]
