Hormones and your cycle 101
Women often struggle with conditions that are related to our hormones, but we are really not educated about these hormones and what we can do to foster a healthy hormonal…
The joys of delivery can bring a host of injuries: What to be prepared for and who can help you manage them.
Pregnancy and delivery are some of the most exciting and challenging times that we go through during our lifetime. Because of this, it is important to surround ourselves with a…
Pelvic Pain in Men
One in eight men will have musculoskeletal pelvic pain, diagnosed as Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS), in their lifetime. Unfortunately, many of them will struggle finding a provider who understands…
Pain: Part 3 Lifestyle
Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system can continue the vicious cycle of pain. Our body feels threatened and our brain continues in the fight or flight protection. This can cause…
Pain: Part 2, Exercise is Medicine
Back to our very sensitive nervous system. Remember stubbing your toe on the table? Now your nervous system is ramped up and everything touching your toe hurts including your sock…
Pain: The sensitive nervous system, understanding is everything.
As pelvic floor physical therapists, we see many people who have pain—sometimes it Is new pain like after surgery or delivering a baby. Sometimes it is persistent pain that has…
Take Care Down There: Lichen sclerosus symptoms and management.
Lichens...What??? I thought that grows on rocks, not my vagina. Lichen sclerosus is a skin condition that comes from the term lichen sclerosus et atrophicus (LSA), which literally means white-spot…
Menopause Part 4: Bone Health and Exercise
We know exercise is important for our mental, heart, muscle, and bone health throughout our lives. Exercise is the most powerful non-medication prevention of fractures in women. This is especially…
More on Menopause: Let’s talk about Sex
A recent flood of patients with the same complaint: “I went through menopause 3 or 4 years ago, and since then sex is so painful we cannot do it at…
Menopause Part 2
The decrease in estrogen during menopause and into post-menopause includes many of the symptoms we discussed in the last blog post about the stages of menopause. One of the most…
Menopause and Pelvic Physical Therapy: Blog Series Part 1
As women, we often talk about all that happens with pregnancy and post-partum. What we do not hear about is what our bodies go through during menopause. I want to…
Celebrating 10 years!!!
10 years ago this month we opened Foundational Concepts. It felt like a huge risk, it was scary, but it was something that we felt very passionate about. Our mission…