C-Section Recovery
Thirty percent of all childbirths are performed via cesarean section. A c-section requires multiple layers to be cut through and stitched back together. Skin, then fat, then fascia, then muscles, the…
Running Postpartum
Feeling like your body is out of whack when you’re attempting to run postpartum? Even if you ran during your pregnancy, researchers have found that after baby women change their…
Bless You!
Many women struggle with leaking urine with sneezing, coughing, laughing etc.… Often this occurs after we have had babies, but it can happen if you haven’t had children too. By…
Weight Lifting and Your Vagina
Women are anatomically different than men, particularly when it comes to weight training. We have a vagina, which leaves an area of weakness that pressure can find. Unlike the anal…
Dry Needling: Migraine Edition
Lights. Camera. Migraine. If you suffer from migraines, you know all about the daunting feelings of blurred vision, nausea and single sided throb or pulsing on one side of…
The Positivity Project
Did you know that your mindset can really impact your physical function? Research shows that when we are in a more positive mindset we feel less pain, less fatigue, stay…
Painful Intercourse: The Pelvic Floor Series 4
This next topic is very personal. Painful intercourse can be devastating. It can leave us feeling isolated, embarrassed and hurt. The worst emotion that we may experience with painful sex…
Prolapse: Pelvic Floor Series 3
The muscles in the pelvic floor are a functional group of many muscles that are the foundation of most of what we do as humans. They work to provide stability…
The Pelvic Floor Series Part 2: Bladder
The muscles in the pelvic floor are a functional group of many muscles that are the foundation of most of what we do as humans. They work to provide stability…
The Pelvic Floor Series: 1
The muscles in the pelvic floor are a functional group of many muscles that are truly the foundation of most of what we do as humans. They work to provide…
What’s In Your Lubricant?
You consider what you put in your mouth, your ears, nose and eyes, but do you think about what might be lurking in the lubricant you put in your vagina? …
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy After Baby
We have had the great honor of treating news journalist and super-mom Haley Harrison-Lee in our clinic recently. Haley has written a poignant, honest, brutiful blog about pregnancy, postpartum, and…