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    Mindfulness Can Improve Your Sex Life - Part 2https://feminapt.com/blog/mindfulness-can-improve-your-sex-life-part-2

    daily. A study by Rosenbaum et al. (2013) also showed that mindfulness meditation helped women recover from sexual pain (vaginismus and dyspareunia) and pelvic floor dysfunction when mindfulness was incorporated into their pelvic floor therapy sessions...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  2. Couple kissing

    Sexual Assertiveness May Reduce Your Pelvic Painhttps://feminapt.com/blog/sexual-assertiveness-may-reduce-your-pelvic-pain

    Assertiveness May Reduce Your Pain Pelvic pain and pain with sex may come from several different avenues, including vaginismus, vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, endometriosis, or tissue changes caused by menopause. The 2016 study by McNicoll et al....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog

  3. Glamour | 9 Best Kegel Weights, According to Pelvic-Floor Expertshttps://feminapt.com/media-content/glamour/glamour-9-best-kegel-weights-according-to-pelvic-floor-experts

    pain, or prolapse worse,” Jeffcoat says. One effect that weak Kegel muscles can have is the condition called vaginismus, which is when the pelvic-floor muscles spasm before or during penetrative sex, oftentimes making it very painful and uncomfortable....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Glamour
  4. Why Your Vagina Burns

    Healthline | Why Your Vagina Burns During or After Penetrative Sexhttps://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-at-healthline/healthline-why-your-vagina-burns-during-or-after-penetrative-sex

    and this can mean less moisture in your vagina tissue too, which can contribute to pain. Irritation Fissures Infection Vaginismus - there is sooo much info on our site, but start here Vestibulodynia Interstitial cystitis - here's a video interview I did...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Healthline
  5. woman in bed needing vaginal dilators

    Well and Good | Vaginal Dilators To Treat Pelvic Pain and Painful Sexhttps://feminapt.com/media-content/well-and-good/well-and-good-vaginal-dilators-can-be-used-to-treat-pelvic-pain-and-painful-sex

    or penetrative pain, including folks with endometriosis, vulvodynia or vestibulodynia (pain around vaginal opening), vaginismus (constricted vaginal muscles), hypertonic pelvic floor (non-relaxing pelvic-floor muscles), painful bladder syndrome, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Well and Good
  6. CBD Suppositories

    Well and Good | These CBD Suppositories Relieved My Pelvic-Floor Pain and Allowed Me To Finally Experience Pleasurehttps://feminapt.com/media-content/well-and-good/well-and-good-these-cbd-suppositories-relieved-my-pelvic-floor-pain-and-allowed-me-to-finally-experience-pleasure

    Anyone with chronic pelvic pain, as well as anyone with suspected or confirmed endometriosis, vestibulodynia, or vaginismus may benefit,” says Dr. Jeffcoat. In addition to helping folks with pelvic-floor pain, CBD suppositories can also be useful for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Well and Good
  7. exercise for difficulty with orgasms

    Bustle: If You Have Difficulty With Orgasms, This Simple Exercise Might Helphttps://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-of-femina-physical-therapy-featured-at-bustle/bustle-if-you-have-difficulty-with-orgasms-this-simple-exercise-might-help

    orgasms, urinary incontinence, and even painful intercourse.” But if you have any sort of pelvic floor dysfunction, like vaginismus or prolapse, kegels can sometimes make things worse. How To Do Kegel Exercises Doing kegel exercises is surprisingly...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Bustle
  8. Painful Sex & The Mind Body Connection | Image Courtesy of Jared Rice via Unsplash

    Painful Sex: The (Actual) Mind-Body Connectionhttps://feminapt.com/blog/painful-sex-the-actual-mind-body-connection

    the results of a recent study about it could be a game-changer for treatment. Whether you have a clinical diagnosis like vaginismus or dyspareunia, or you just know that sex hurts, painful sex is a common problem - almost half of all women will...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Blog
  9. your pelvic floor is too tight

    Well and Good: How to Tell If Your Pelvic Floor Is Too Tight, According to a Specialisthttps://feminapt.com/media-content/well-and-good/well-and-good-how-to-tell-if-your-pelvic-floor-is-too-tight

    include psychological factors like stress, holding your pee when you have to go, or co-occurring conditions like vaginismus, according to the Cleveland Clinic. A few tell-tale signs include constipation, straining when you poop, painful penetrative sex,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Well and Good
  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

    We often see women with sexual impairments have the following conditions/scenarios: Postpartum (regardless of delivery) Vaginismus (involuntary spasms of the pelvic floor muscles) Post-menopausal Vulvodynia Skin inflammatory conditions such as lichen...

    • 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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