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Learn About Avoiding Painful Sex After Menopause

According to First For Women writer, Chad Birt, "Researchers estimate that up to 84% of women suffer from painful sex after menopause." Founder of Femina Physical Therapy, Dr. Heather Jeffcoat explains that pelvic floor weakness might coincide with the hormonal changes and thinning tissue experienced during and after menopause. Moreover, she says that this weakness can lead to prolapse, which causes a bulge in the vagina and “creates discomfort during sex, as well as during daily activities.” 

5 Remedies for Painful Sex After Menopause:

1. Use a lubricant to reduce friction

2. Use a vaginal moisturizer to hydrate

3. Use "warm-up" exercises like Happy Baby and Malasana before having sex

4. Focus on your breathing throughout the day, and during penetration 

5. Experiment with other options that still build intimacy and lead to orgasm

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Still looking for more help with sex after menopause? Go here to make an appointment with one of our licensed physical therapists.

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Sex Without Pain: A Self-Treatment Guide To The Sex Life You Deserve

Haga clic aquí para la versión española Sex Without Pain: A Self-Treatment Guide To The Sex Life You Deserve was written by Heather Jeffcoat, DPT, a physical therapist with countless successes in treating pain of this type. Women with vaginismus, overactive pelvic floor, painful intercourse, vulvodynia, vulvar vestibulitis, vestibulodynia, dyspareunia, interstitial cystitis have all benefited from her unique program. Heather uses her orthopedic background to approach treatment of these muscles like they are....muscles! She utilizes a self-treatment tool called a dilator to provide massage and other muscle relaxation and stretching techniques in a gentle fashion to return a women's muscles back to a resting, rather than guarded, state.


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