A Conversation about Female Sexual Health & Pelvic Pain with Screening of Animated Short Film “Tightly Wound” Femina PT, the Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center, and the Milli, the first Expandable Dilator, are teaming up to bring Shelby Hadden and her animated short film about vaginismus, Tightly Wound, to Los Angeles on Saturday, May 19th! […]
Tips for Teaching Your Daughters About Endometriosis Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and girls. The delay for diagnosis averages 7 years! How early should you start the discussion about this debilitating condition? As a pelvic health physical therapist, I believe this conversation should start not long after your daughter begins menstruating. As moms, we need […]
Have You Ever Asked “What’s Up Down There, Doc?” Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the best kept secrets in medicine. I was on a recent plane flight and sat next to two women that were very chatty with one another. They quickly swept me up into their conversation. Inevitably, in situations like this, […]
Does Fear Create Vaginismus? Or Vice Versa? I came across an article that came out last month and it brought up an old question I often muse over–Does Vaginismus create the fear and anxiety in women, or does an underlying fear or anxiety create Vaginismus? As we often say in physical therapy “It depends”. With […]
Should You Stop Doing Kegels? Read on for the answer. In my last post, “Why You Should Be Doing Kegels NOW”, I went over the specific diagnoses that tend to benefit most from doing pelvic floor muscle exercises. However, not all issues related to the pelvic floor are appropriate to prescribe pelvic floor muscle exercises for. […]
I am proud to announce the official book release today of Sex Without Pain: A Self-Treatment Guide To The Sex Life You Deserve. It is available on Amazon.com, iBooks and other retailers. 43% of women will experience pain during sex or other sexual problems – why isn’t this a public health concern? http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12156888.htm Join us […]
Wondering why you should be doing Kegels? In my early days of being a pelvic floor PT, I was convinced I had the answer to all the woes of the pelvic floor. One word – Kegels. As I’ve developed professionally, I certainly realized Kegels have their place. However, they do not have their place with […]
What are Kegels? Kegels are a contraction of the pelvic floor muscles, sometimes referred to as “PC Contraction”. PC is short for “pubococcygeus”, the name of one of the many pelvic floor muscles. However, after over a decade of practice, I have found that simply telling a patient to “Do Kegels” is usually not enough. […]
