Stressing the Importance of Cervical Health Awareness Is Pain with Penetration Preventing you from getting a Pap test? January is a great time to make resolutions, fresh starts, and to start committing to self-care! It is also Cervical Health Awareness Month. Today we chat about the Pap test. If you are an adult with female […]
Have You Ever Asked “What’s Up Down There, Doc?” Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the best kept secrets in medicine. I was on a recent plane flight and sat next to two women that were very chatty with one another. They quickly swept me up into their conversation. Inevitably, in situations like this, […]
Does Fear Create Vaginismus? Or Vice Versa? I came across an article that came out last month and it brought up an old question I often muse over–Does Vaginismus create the fear and anxiety in women, or does an underlying fear or anxiety create Vaginismus? As we often say in physical therapy “It depends”. With […]
Physical Therapy Can Mitigate the Effects of Cancer on Sexual Function Sexuality can be a big part of who we are as individuals. Sexual function can be defined as “specific physical, physiological, neurological and emotional behaviors expressed by an individual response”.5 Sexual function and cancer can have an important and detrimental relationship. There are certain cancers […]
