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Femina Physical Therapy in the Media
Heather Jeffcoat, DPT and the team at Femina PT are routinely sought out by major online sources, print publications, and broadcast media for our knowledge of all things related to pelvic health. The recognition we have received as leading experts in our field has resulted in appearances on "Loveline with Mike and Dr. Drew" , US News & World Report, Huffington Post, ABC News, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Bustle, "Sex With Emily" with Dr. Emily Morse, and in New York Magazine and Health Magazine, to name but a few. The demand for our expertise is greater than ever as more and more women seek to remedy the issues that we work with on a daily basis.
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Bring a Friend (or 3!) to Our Next "Girls' Night Out" Event! - November 3, 2019
Hear Experts Chat About Sexual & Pelvic Health, Followed by Q&A
About This Event
Join us at Big & Tiny Silver Lake for a fun Girls' Night Out! Bring your friends and enjoy wine and appetizers before a conversation about pelvic and sexual health. Dr. Kimberly Resnick Anderson (Sex Therapist and host of the Sex Savvy podcast), Heather Jeffcoat, DPT (owner of Femina Physical Therapy) and Lisa Valle, D.O. (Oasis Women’s Sexual Function Center), will lead the discussion on these important topics.
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All About The Pelvic Floor on the Under The Hood Podcast
Under the Hood is a podcast to strengthen and empower our thoughts around womanHOOD, sisterHOOD, motherHOOD. It’s a podcast by women, for everyone. In their August 8th episode they sat down with Heather Jeffcoat for a wide ranging discussion of women's pelvic floor issues.
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Heather Jeffcoat was once again quoted for her expertise about all things pelvic floor related, this time by the quite popular women's site POPSUGAR.
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A leading lifestyle brand for young women, POPSUGAR delivers inspiring, informative, and entertaining multi-platform content across entertainment, fashion, beauty, fitness, food, parenting, news and more.
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Why Kegels Are Not the Only Option for Treating Incontinence
Femina Physical Therapy is rapidly becoming recognized as a leader in the field of physical therapy for women of all ages, and pelvic floor therapy in particular. As a result, Femina PT founder Heather Jeffcoat, DPT is finding herself in demand more than ever for her valuable insights into a number of pelvic floor related topics.
In this case the discussion centers around how kegels are not the only option for every pelvic floor issue that women often face.
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Heather Jeffcoat's seminal book "Sex Without Pain: A Self Treatment Guide to the Sex Life You Deserve" is featured in Improve Her Health for “The Books Women in Their 20’s Should Be Reading”. The book focuses on self treatment of sexual dysfunction including vaginismus, vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, interstitial cystitis / painful bladder, endometriosis and dyspareunia.
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For everyone, their 20s are a transformative and essential decade for their development which will determine much of their future, and this is doubly true for all the young women out there going through this decade of their lives.
It is during this time that they'll need some solid guidance regarding which paths to take at the many crossroads they'll encounter regularly, and there's not better guidance that the one given from those that have already walked down this path and, luckily, wrote all about it. This selection of the best books for women in their 20s surely will have you greatly relating to the struggle described and, hopefully, teach you which paths to take and which to avoid.
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As the level of recognition for the expertise of Heather Jeffcoat, DPT and her team in the field of pelvic floor physical therapy has grown, so has the attention she has received from across various media platforms. Heather was recently sought out by Vanessa Marin for her wonderfully written Lifehacker article entitled “Do You Need Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy?”.
The result is an in-depth and engaging look into the practice. It leaves the reader with the realization that it this a commonly overlooked and yet vitally important mode of therapy that more and more women are starting to take advantage of, whether it be for postpartum care, treatment for vaginismus or endometriosis, or many other causes or diagnoses.
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Sex should never hurt, of course. But painful sex is a common enough issue that it actually has a medical name. Dyspareunia, or painful intercourse, is any persistent or recurrent genital pain that occurs before, during, or after penetrative sex, and it may affect 8% to 20% of women according to some studies.
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8 Types Of Discomfort During Intimacy To Be Aware Of
Heather Jeffcoat was asked to contribute to an article at the popular website Bustle about the possible causes, prevention, and therapeutic treatments available for various issues surrounding pain and discomfort during and/or after sexual intercourse.
The article begins with:
If you've ever had penetrative sex, chances are it hurt the first time, or was at least a little uncomfortable until your body adjusted. The next time you did it, things probably went a little smoother. While it's totally normal to feel uncomfortable during sex at the beginning, there are definitely types of discomfort during sex to be aware of, according to experts."
