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  1. How Long After Pregnancy Can You Have Sex?

    Verywell Family | How Long After Pregnancy Can You Have Sex?https://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-at-verywell-family/verywell-family-how-long-after-pregnancy-can-you-have-sex

    sex by 12 months postpartum experience pain during their first vaginal sex encounter after childbirth. More specifically, dyspareunia or painful intercourse after childbirth was reported in 44% of women at three months postpartum, 43% at six months, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Verywell Family

  2. Meet Kasia Gondek, DPT, CLT, CSCShttps://feminapt.com/about-us/about-kasia

    neurogenic bladder, painful bladder syndrome, male pelvic pain/chronic prostatitis, vestibulodynia, endometriosis, dyspareunia (painful sexual intercourse), pubalgia (pubic bone pain), constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), pelvic organ prolapse,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Kasia Gondek, PT, DPT, CLT, CSCS
    • Category: Our Team

  3. Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy for Athletic Incontinencehttps://feminapt.com/blog/pelvic-floor-physical-therapy-for-athletic-incontinence

    floor. Some additional symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction are pelvic pressure/prolapse, pelvic pain, urinary frequency, dyspareunia (pain with intercourse), low back or pelvic pain. In another study of 106 female athletes also found a similar...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  4. Understanding your vulva and vagina | Femina PT

    Modern Fertility | Vulvovaginal anatomy 101 | Understanding your vulva and vagina in a new wayhttps://feminapt.com/media-content/modern-fertility/modern-fertility-vulvovaginal-anatomy-101-understanding-your-vulva-and-vagina-in-a-new-way

    in a day or how often you perform kegels. Note: there are many other conditions that can contribute to pain with sex, or dyspareunia. While kegels are good for incontinence, Dr. Jeffcoat also recommends doing kegels to “learn to let go and lengthen”...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Modern Fertility
  5. Couple embracing in a pink sunset

    How to Involve Your Partner in Your Pelvic Floor Therapyhttps://feminapt.com/blog/how-to-involve-your-partner-in-your-pelvic-floor-therapy

    MPT Femina PT Blog Check out our blog for lots of articles on pelvic pain diagnoses including vaginismus, vulvodynia, dyspareunia, vestibulodynia, and others. https://feminapt.com/diagnoses/female-sexual-pain-syndromes Play with Your Partner Pelvic pain...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  6. postpartum pelvic health

    5 Things You Can do to Improve Postpartum Pelvic Healthhttps://feminapt.com/blog/5-things-you-can-do-to-improve-postpartum-pelvic-health

    142–149. doi:10.1097/spv.0000000000000513 Lagaert, L., Weyers, S., Van Kerrebroeck, H., & Elaut, E. (2017). Postpartum dyspareunia and sexual functioning: a prospective cohort study. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  7. Mental Health and Sexual Pain | Image Courtesy of Anthony Tran via Unsplash

    Mental Health and Sexual Pain: Having Sexual Pain Is Not In Your Headhttps://feminapt.com/blog/mental-health-and-sexual-pain-having-sexual-pain-is-not-in-your-head

    and Treatment of Female Sexual Pain: A Clinical Review. Cureus 10(3): e2379. DOI 10.7759/cureus.2379 Tayyeb M, Gupta V., Dyspareunia. [Updated 2021 Jun 11]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021. Yazdanpanahi Z,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  8. what is IC Interstitial Cystitis | IC & Symptoms | Image Courtesy of Marek Piwnicki via Unsplash

    What is IC and What Are The Symptoms? | Interstitial Cystitishttps://feminapt.com/blog/what-is-ic-and-what-are-the-symptoms-interstitial-cystitis

    the quality of life of patients living with it. Many patients with IC have other overlapping pain conditions such as Dyspareunia (pain with intercourse). 88% of patients with IC had at least one symptoms of sexual dysfunction (lack of sexual interest,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  9. physical therapy can help endometriosis

    Physical Therapy Can Help Endometriosis and Painful Sexhttps://feminapt.com/blog/physical-therapy-can-help-endometriosis-and-painful-sex

    sexual dysfunction. Why does painful sex occur with endometriosis? It is thought that women with endometriosis experience dyspareunia (pain with sex) due to endometrial lesions on specific areas, such as the uterosacral ligaments, pouch of Douglas,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  10. contraceptives and sexual function | Image Courtesy of Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition via Unsplash

    What Do We Know About Contraceptives and Sexual Function? https://feminapt.com/blog/what-do-we-know-about-contraceptives-and-sexual-function

    Contraceptives and Sexual Function A systematic review (Champaneria, 2016) found articles that discovered: Those with dyspareunia (pain with sexual intercourse) has a positive association with either current or past use of oral contraceptives...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
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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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What Our Patients Say About Their Journey

Testimonial by A.W., age 32

I wanted to let you know that my pelvic floor held strong and gave me no trouble whatsoever in my trail race this morning (12 miles)! In a way, I felt like I ran better than ever because my core feels so rock solid from all the exercises you have me doing. That was especially valuable on the technical downhill - I just flew down the trail because I had confidence in my balance and form. Thank you for helping me get back to doing what I love. -- A.W., age 32 (completed...

Testimonial by R.S.

I wanted to thank you so much for helping me get through something I thought I may never be able to. We have achieved pain-free intercourse and this has really solidified our marriage. We are so grateful to you for all the work you do! Thank you!! -- R.S.

Testimonial by R.D., age 38

"I had a severe tear during childbirth that was not stitched together correctly and therefore healed poorly. Even after having a surgery a year later to remove the scar tissue, I was still having pain, and no one could explain why -- there was no overt 'reason' to explain the pain. I had tried other 'specialists' and even saw another physical therapist who had me do hip / leg stretches -- what a joke! I was about to give up and just 'live with it' until thankfully I kept...

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