Poise is on my watch list. I have found some of their advertising messages to be very manipulative. Often the information they share offers women a pad as a solution for incontinence, indicating how “normal” and “no big deal” it is to have a few leaks. It’s never normal, people! While “normalizing” it may help...
read article Another bad guy to vanquish! Alignment took on the high, tight pelvic floor, but now an inquiring Internal Physical Therapy Specialist wants to know…how can it impact a pelvic floor with a nerve injury? The Question: What if a patient’s left levator ani group was knocked out by nerve injury during childbirth? Is there evidence...
read article The pelvic floor needs new PR! We need to take steps to break down the barriers for practitioners and patients to begin to appreciate the power of this muscle group and the multi-tasking capacity that it has beyond just keeping panties dry, organs in, and sex happy. First step, let’s expand the definition of a...
read article “I’m freaking out right now!” was the response of one of the women that attended a new mommy return to fitness workshop I gave a few weeks back. The topic had turned to pelvic organ prolapse and most of the attendees had not heard of it, or about it. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is...
read article Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is the descent of the pelvic organs from their original positions into and sometimes out of the vagina. The new moms who attended this post-pregnancy return to fitness seminar were all ears to understand the contributing factors, and in particular the role of running during pregnancy and post partum in the...
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