Choosing the Right Vulvovaginal Moisturizer Assuming You Need One, Make Sure It Has the Right Ingredients Many people with female anatomy experience vaginal dryness at some point in their lives. While it is commonly associated with aging and menopause symptoms, vaginal dryness can affect individuals of all ages due to hormonal changes, medical conditions, medications, […]
Recovering from endometriosis laparoscopy is an important part of achieving the best possible surgical outcome. While every patient’s experience is unique, following your surgeon’s instructions and sticking to a structured recovery plan can reduce discomfort, improve mobility, and support healing. Proper endometriosis surgery recovery involves more than resting. Gentle movement, effective pain management, healthy nutrition, […]
For people living with POTS or orthostatic intolerance, exercise can feel like a catch-22: movement is an important part of rehabilitation, but standing and traditional strength training can trigger racing heart rates, dizziness, fatigue, and other debilitating symptoms. Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) therapy offers a promising, lower-load approach that may help build lower-body strength while reducing the physical demands of conventional exercise. In this guide, Femina Physical Therapy explains how BFR may fit into an individualized POTS rehabilitation program in Los Angeles, what a typical session looks like, and what the current research does—and does not—tell us about its use for dysautonomia
It’s truly amazing what bodies endure during and following pregnancy. We praise all the new parents that come into the clinic for their resilience not only physically but mentally, taking care of themselves as well as being a caretaker 24/7 whether it’s one child or three children, it really is a super power.
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 […]
You can have a pelvic floor that’s doing too much and glutes or abdominal muscles that aren’t doing enough. Those findings aren’t contradictory. In fact, they can be part of the same movement strategy. The pelvic floor isn’t only involved in bladder, bowel, and sexual function. It also participates in stability and responds to movement […]
Menopause can bring significant changes to muscle strength, bone density, and pelvic health—but losing strength doesn’t have to be part of aging. Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) therapy offers a lower-load approach to strength training that may help postmenopausal women improve strength and support bone health. At Femina PT in Los Angeles, BFR is incorporated into a menopause-specific physical therapy program alongside targeted exercise, pelvic floor care, and bone health strategies.
Cancer treatment can take a significant toll on strength, mobility, and overall physical function. Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) therapy offers a specialized approach to cancer rehabilitation, helping patients build and maintain strength with lower loads when traditional resistance training may not be appropriate. At Femina PT in Los Angeles, expert physical therapy combines BFR with individualized rehabilitation strategies to support women during and after cancer treatment—helping restore confidence, function, and quality of life.
Postpartum recovery is more than simply being “cleared” at six weeks—it requires individualized care for the pelvic floor, core, diastasis recti, and overall strength. Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) therapy can support postpartum strength recovery using low mechanical loads, making it a potential tool within a carefully assessed rehabilitation program. At Femina PT in Los Angeles, postpartum physical therapy combines pelvic floor evaluation, BFR, targeted diastasis recti rehabilitation, pressure management, and a progressive return to exercise, running, lifting, or sport.
Why can’t you feel your glutes during exercise? Learn how glute under recruitment, tight hamstrings, altered movement patterns, and pelvic stability may contribute to low back pain, postpartum recovery challenges, and pelvic floor dysfunction.
