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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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!
  7. Debbie Dy

    Meet Debbie Dy, PT, DPThttps://feminapt.com/about-us/about-debbie

    Association’s Section on Pelvic Health. Debbie has a special interest in pelvic pain disorders, including vaginismus, vestibulodynia and dyspareunia. Debbie also has extensive experience in treating pregnancy and postpartum conditions including:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Debbie Dy, PT, DPT
    • Category: Our Team
  8. Exercises to Relieve Endometriosis Pain | Image Courtesy of Tyler Nix via Unsplash

    5 Simple Exercises to Reduce and Relieve Endometriosis Painhttps://feminapt.com/blog/5-simple-exercises-to-reduce-and-relieve-endometriosis-pain

    bladder or urinary urgency and frequency (sometimes referred to as Interstitial Cystitis) Vulvar pain (vulvodynia or vestibulodynia) Low back or sciatic pain and other orthopedic issues, including jaw pain (TMJ dysfunction) Pain that radiates down the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff
    • Category: Blog
  9. partner has dyspareunia

    Giddy: You Need to Know These 4 Facts if Your Partner Has Dyspareuniahttps://feminapt.com/media-content/giddy/giddy-you-need-to-know-these-4-facts-if-your-partner-has-dyspareunia

    to as introital dyspareunia—is pain with initial penetration. Pain with initial penetration may be determined to be vestibulodynia or vaginismus. Pain with deeper thrusting located closer to the cervix may be due to endometriosis, for example." Being...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Giddy
  10. pelvic floor trainer

    Unlocking Your Pelvic Power: Should You Consider a Pelvic Floor Trainer?https://feminapt.com/media-content/giddy/unlocking-your-pelvic-power-should-you-consider-a-pelvic-floor-trainer

    contractions. In specific cases, down-training, or relaxation, holds the key to relief. Conditions such as vaginismus, vestibulodynia, painful intercourse, painful bladder syndrome, urinary urgency, and frequent pelvic pain often necessitate this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Heather Jeffcoat, DPT
    • Category: Giddy
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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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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...

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