pelvic floor therapy

Pelvic Floor Relaxation Exercise | For Pelvic Pain, Pain With Sex, Incontinence

In this video, Dr. Lauren Baker, DPT, shares her personal experience with pelvic floor tightness and how to relax your own pelvic floor. She also shares multiple resources for further knowledge on pelvic floor tightness and its implications in your life.

5 Ways To Decrease Pelvic Floor Tightness

Pelvic floor tightness is a condition where the muscles of your pelvis, the ones that control your bowel, bladder, and sexual functions become tight. Since they’re muscles, they can become tight or weak just like any other muscle in your body, take for instance your hip flexor muscles (the muscles you use to bring your knee toward your chest in a sitting or standing position). You’ve likely come across tight hip flexors if you’ve experienced back pain, knee pain, or got into a half kneeling position (the “will you marry me?” pose) and then tried to shift your weight forward. It can feel RATHER uncomfortable to experience this tightness, like your muscle magically transformed into a rubber band that is pulled to its max capacity. It’s like that for your pelvic floor muscles too. ..

Physical Therapy Strategy To Decrease Pain With Sex

I want to start this off by telling you what a good Catholic girl I am, that I’m a professional, that I care about how you see me so much that I feel the need to preface the next vulnerable and personal lines of this blog post with accolades & personal stories of how nice I am in real life…

Sex doesn’t have to be painful or uncomfortable. You don’t have to avoid positions because “you just can’t do them,” and wonder why there must be something broken within your body that isn’t allowing you to relax and enjoy something that is so primitive and intimate as sex. You see, sex requires muscles. Those muscles can get tight or weak or spasm or believe that something that once was traumatic (sexual assault) will always result in the same trauma…

I Went To My First Women's Health Physical Therapy Appointment, Here's What Happened

I felt nauseous all day after writing my first blog post about my upcoming women’s health physical therapy appointment on Monday evening. It was at 5:30pm and so that left approximately ten(ish) hours of feeling seen, vulnerable, and afraid. I’m learning it’s not just the fact that my sexual & private area organs need help that I cannot take care of on my own that causes the discomfort, it’s mixed with some weird form of SHAME. I put that word in all caps, because it’s a violent word in the feminine language. It’s a word that may make you want to click off this blog right now, for the sake of your soul though, please don’t.

How I Knew I Needed To See A Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist

I was personally terrified to go to my first Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy appointment and I am a Physical Therapist. I wrote this article to share my experience so others wouldn’t feel the fear I felt.