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  1. Heather Jeffcoat | A Burning Sensation In Your Vagina | Bustle

    Heather Jeffcoat on Bustle.com | A Burning Sensation In Your Vagina and What To Do About Ithttps://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-of-femina-physical-therapy-featured-at-bustle/heather-jeffcoat-at-bustle-com-a-burning-sensation-in-your-vagina

    If you're sure that you don't have an STI, a sensation of burning or rawness with penetration may be due to vestibulodynia (a type of vulvodynia) or vaginismus, Heather Jeffcoat, DPT, a pelvic floor physical therapist, owner of Femina Physical Therapy,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Bustle
  2. "Sex Without Pain" Featured Not Once, But Twice in the Same Week!

    "Sex Without Pain" Featured Not Once, But Twice in the Same Week!https://feminapt.com/media-content/sex-without-pain-featured-not-once-but-twice-in-the-same-week

    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. The article begins: For everyone, their 20s are a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Media
  3. What is a Ruined Orgasm?

    O.School | What is a Ruined Orgasm?https://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-at-o-school/o-school-what-s-a-ruined-orgasm

    ‍ Vaginismus (involves muscle spasms in the pelvic floor muscles) Vulvodynia (chronic, unidentified vulvar pain) Vestibulodynia (chronic, unidentified pain in the vestibule area of the vulva Endometriosis (a painful disorder caused by tissue that lines...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Oschool
  4. Meet Kasia Gondek, DPT, CLT, CSCShttps://feminapt.com/about-us/about-kasia

    to: urinary and bowel incontinence, neurogenic bladder, painful bladder syndrome, male pelvic pain/chronic prostatitis, vestibulodynia, endometriosis, dyspareunia (painful sexual intercourse), pubalgia (pubic bone pain), constipation, irritable bowel...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Kasia Gondek, PT, DPT, CLT, CSCS
    • Category: Our Team
  5. 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

    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 on navigating painful intercourse with interstitial cystitis As...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Healthline
  6. 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

    this may include anyone who experiences pelvic or penetrative pain, including folks with endometriosis, vulvodynia or vestibulodynia (pain around vaginal opening), vaginismus (constricted vaginal muscles), hypertonic pelvic floor (non-relaxing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Well and Good
  7. 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

    using CBD suppositories? 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Well and Good
  8. why your vagina may feel too tight

    Insider: 7 Reasons Why Your Vagina May Feel Too Tighthttps://feminapt.com/media-content/insider/insider-7-reasons-why-your-vagina-may-feel-too-tight

    is a blanket term for painful intercourse, Jeffcoat says. Vaginismus is one type of dyspareunia. Others include: Vestibulodynia, which is pain at the opening of the vagina and not in the vaginal muscles like with vaginismus. Vulvodynia, which is chronic...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Insider
  9. things you should have been taught in sex ed

    Buzzfeed: Some Sex Education You Actually Need — Including How Much Porn Is Too Much and Whether You Really Need to Pee After Sexhttps://feminapt.com/media-content/heather-jeffcoat-at-buzzfeed/things-you-should-have-been-taught-in-sex-ed

    are many reasons that sex could hurt for those with vaginas including but not limited to: vaginismus vulvodynia or vestibulodynia and subtypes of these (including clitordynia (or clitoral pain) endometriosis hymen abnormalities (such as an imperforate...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: BuzzFeed
  10. why is sex and inserting tampons painful

    Yahoo! Life | Why is Having Sex and Inserting Tampons Painful for Some?https://feminapt.com/media-content/yahoo/yahoo-life-why-is-having-sex-and-inserting-tampons-painful-for-some

    Life You Deserve, tells Yahoo Life. Jeffcoat explains that vaginismus can be misdiagnosed for another condition called vestibulodynia, “which is also painful, but not so much a burning pain, right at the vaginal opening,”. Other symptoms of vaginismus...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Yahoo!
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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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