Explore women’s health topics with a focus on pelvic floor wellness. Learn how physical therapy can address issues like incontinence, pelvic pain, and postpartum recovery.
After mastectomy many women experience chest tightness, numbness or tingling in their arm or hand on the surgical side, or decreased shoulder mobility and/or strength. These changes can be due to the surgery itself, scar tissue from the incision, or…
How much do you really know about your birth control pills? The side effects of oral contraceptive pills (OCP) are well established, yet women are often uninformed when it comes to how this widely used medication can affect our bodies. …
I am a mother, and I still have my uterus. For this reason, I cannot always understand what my patients who no longer have their uterus or do not have children are experiencing physically and emotionally. What I love most…
Most people are aware of the emotional strain of dealing with a cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, it is rare for people to discuss the physical, mental and emotional deficits that continue to occur after the treatment has been completed…
Endometriosis affects more than 6 million women in the United States. It is a painful disorder in which the cells that form the endometrial lining within the uterus grow outside the uterus in the abdominal cavity. Depending on the severity,…
Every year nearly 98,000 American women are diagnosed with gynecological cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Although nearly 30,000 of these new cases will die from the disease, more women are surviving. Many survivors are left with poor quality…
In a practice that specializes in women's health in Kansas City, we see many women with osteoporosis. Many of them are unsure as to what they could have done to prevent the loss of bone. As a women's health physical…
Sex after Menopause: It doesn’t have to hurtA 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 all. I have…
So, I have been wanting to blog on this topic for a while now. I have been intrigued by oral birth controls over the last 8 years with pelvic floor dysfunction of my own. Anyways, the other night I was…
Great post by Dr. Jen Gunter. Enjoy!https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/hysterectomy-for-chronic-pelvic-pain-ask-these-7-questions-first/
