General topic posts about women’s health, physical therapy, fitness, and other reflections about life.
Here’s a pelvic floor issue you might not be familiar with but may be the root of your pain and/or leaking šš¼ Pelvic Floor Tightness. Tightness can SOUND like a GOOD thingā¦but tight does not = strong. If you ARE brave enough to talk to your PCP about leaking or dysfunction, youāre probably told to […]
Sharing today THREE exercises for PF relaxation – We so often hear about pelvic floor weakness, and itās true that this is very common, but did you know that many women struggle also with pelvic floor TIGHTNESS? To be clear – strong and tight are NOT the same thing! In fact, you can be tight […]
Want to know the one thing I used to HATE seeing on my patient schedule? Chronic low back pain. As a new grad, these patients felt impossible to treat, I felt ill-equipped to help them, and Iāll be honest in that many of them struggled to improve. I know Iām not the only PT who […]
Pain with sex is never normal. Common? Yes. In fact, over 85% of women will struggle with painful sex postpartum, but lest you think this is just an issue with vaginal birth, youād be mistaken. Iāve seen women whoāve never had babies, and women whoāve had all c-sections, and though itās more common if youāve […]
Have you ever been in a group of moms laughing about not being able to jump on the trampoline anymore? Or about how they have to wear black leggings to the exercise class? Or how they need to run out of the room as soon as they start jumping jacks? I have. Numerous times. And […]
Want a great core exercise that will also challenge your balance? This is a good one! I love incorporating balance into my home exercise programs for my patients and my fitness class because we LOSE balance as we age! I’ve seen too many elderly people as patients who have had fallsā and falls can often […]
Phrases commonly used when instructing others on how to activate the inner core: Pull the belly button to spine Suck In Tighten your abs This actually can increase pressure and turn off the deep core I know so many of you have heard, used, or taught these cues to encourage core activation during workouts. So […]
The secret behind my training programs šš¼ Weāre not simply training strengthā¦weāre training your brain Ā A couple of weeks ago I filmed the above exercise for you in a reel, but what you DIDNāT see was that I STRUGGLED my first couple of reps! I wasnāt automatically perfect at it (which is a good […]
Have you ever wished in hindsight that you would have talked to your provider about something before it happened, or found out you had options but you werenāt aware of them? Over the years, Iāve seen hundreds of postpartum women and heard their birth stories. Iām also trained in intrapartum care, so I have the […]
Here are a few of my favorite FUNCTIONAL exercises to add to your workouts: D2 flexion with squat – such a technical name but I wasnāt sure what else to call this – the seatbelt exercise?š Keys: start w/ your thumb pointing back & finish w/ your thumb pointing back so you get some nice […]
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