If you’ve ever felt ongoing tension in your body, pressure or heaviness in your pelvis, pelvic pain, or a sense that your core can’t quite activate it once did, your breathing patterns may be playing a much larger role than you realize.
If you’re experiencing vaginal dryness, burning, painful sex, recurrent UTIs, or urinary urgency — whether you’re breastfeeding or navigating midlife — I want you to hear this clearly: It’s common. It’s physiologic. And it’s treatable.
Pelvic pain in pregnancy is common – but that doesn’t mean it’s normal, or inevitable. And it certainly isn’t something you need to “just deal with.”
One-third of deliveries in the United States are cesarean deliveries and perineal tears, occurs in approximately 70% of birthing people during delivery and is as high as 90% in women who are pregnant and giving birth for the first time. Learn how to best take care of yourself if you find yourself recovering from either.
Strength training, when done strategically and safely, can play a powerful role in reducing and even resolving symptoms of stress incontinence.
Why Avoiding the Barbell Might Be Holding You Back—and What to Do Instead
Diastasis Rectus Abdominis is something that is incredibly common throughout the lifespan and during pregnancy and postpartum and there is a lot of fear mongering associated with it including what exercises and activities are considered “safe” or not.
Today is a perfect day to start learning more about what to expect in perimenopause! Here are five signs you may be in it right now.
Not every pelvic floor therapist looks and treats the pelvic floor in the same way. Some just look at the physical aspects of the pelvic floor dysfunction. Kyrsten encourages you to seek out a therapist that is right for you. She provides a questionnaire to help you find a pelvic floor therapist that will treat
in a holistic way so that you can have the most optimal healing.
Our pelvic bowl or pelvic space is the storage house of all of our unprocessed emotion, trauma events, and things that have happened to us. Things like birth trauma, sexual trauma, sexual repression, even past surgeries or fears, can really start to come up and hold tension in our body, which results in pain and discomfort.
