By Nisha Patel Pelvic Health Physiotherapist The piece of advice that my clients find most surprising in my practice revolves around a fundamental principle: before we strengthen your pelvic floor, we focus on lengthening it. In fact, strengthening might not even be necessary in certain cases. Allow me to explain. Pelvic floor muscles function much like any other muscles in our bodies; there’s a delicate balance between their length and …
By Madhu Thiagarajan Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Have you or your partner ever experienced pain during intercourse or just the thought of intercourse? Has your daughter mentioned that her sexual encounter was very painful or avoids using a tampon due to pain? Are you peri-menopausal or menopausal, and suddenly noticing discomfort with penetration? Or maybe you are avoiding your PAP exam because the speculum is too painful. While it is common …
By Pooja Patel and Nisha Patel Pelvic Health Physiotherapists What if we told you that you regularly talk about your pelvic floor without realizing you are? We all have that group of muscles within our pelvis that support us daily with an array of functions. As pelvic health therapists we hear people exchanging information about their pelvic health all the time! The topic of pelvic health shows up when …
By Ingrid Harm-Ernandes Author, PT (Board Certified Women’s Health & Pelvic Floor Biofeedback) “I had no idea!” I have heard this from patients, doctors, nurses, physician assistants and others. Whenever a patient, medical practitioner or course attendee has spent an hour with me, they are amazed at how the pelvic musculoskeletal system is involved in pelvic conditions. In addition, they are astounded that there is actually something they can do …
By Jill Mueller Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Have you heard of Pelvic Physiotherapy; or if you have, did you think it was just for women who need to strengthen their pelvic floor? Well, I’m here to let you know that Pelvic Physiotherapists do more than teach kegels; and if you do have endometriosis you should have one on your team! Before we dive into how Pelvic Physiotherapy can help, let’s have …
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By Carolyn Vandyken Pelvic PT, Educator, Author There are two camps in treating pain: Tissue-based Camp of Treatment Providers treat the tissues alone believing that there must be something bio-medically wrong with the tissues; if they can only mobilize, zap or anesthetize the right tissues, they will be able to change the pain. When the right tissues cannot be found to achieve this goal, these practitioners then medicate people …
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