Foundations Pelvic Health Journal
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Empower Your Birth with Your Partner by Your Side
Get ready for birth with confidence! At Foundations Pelvic Health, our Birth Prep visits help you and your partner prepare for labor and delivery with expert guidance on pushing, pain relief, and postpartum care - so you both feel supported every step of the way.
Live, Laugh, Love (to No More Leaking): Reclaiming confidence with Pelvic Floor Therapy
Urinary leakage is a common issue for many women - about 1 in 3 women will experience some form of urinary incontinence in their lives. While this issue is common, it doesn’t mean it’s something you have to live with. Pelvic floor physical therapy can offer effective solutions to help manage and alleviate symptoms to help get back to doing all the things you love to do while staying dry!
A Guide to a Happy Bladder: Everyday Habits That Make a Difference
Your bladder and pelvic floor work in tandem to prevent issues like urgency, urinary incontinence, and discomfort. Whether you're looking to reduce urinary leaking or alleviate pelvic discomfort, adopting these habits can have a significant positive impact.
Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Silent Struggle for Many Women
Chronic pelvic pain is defined as persistent pain lasting longer than 6 months, located in the pelvic region, abdomen, or lower back, and severe enough to affect daily life. It’s a condition that disproportionately affects women.
Birthing with an Epidural
Let’s chat about epidurals and their role in your labor and delivery experience! Your pelvic floor PT will review pain management during labor with you during your birth prep visits, and will discuss pushing, breathing, pelvic floor involvement and positioning with epidurals.
Stages of the Menstrual Cycle
You may have seen the menstrual cycle referred to as the “fifth vital sign.” Our pelvic floor PTs at Foundations Pelvic Health often ask our patients about their periods and cycle, as it can help us understand your pelvic health symptoms better!
Constipation: A Pain in the Butt!
Our pelvic floor PTs at Foundations Pelvic Health can help with so much more than urinary or pregnancy and postpartum concerns - we can help with your bowel issues as well. While the root cause of constipation can be complex and multi-faceted, we help many people figure out how to poop better!
What’s the Deal with Kegels?
Let’s break down what is a Kegel, how we assess for them, and if you should be doing them! Our pelvic floor PTs at Foundations Pelvic Health help answer all of your pelvic floor questions!
Endometriosis Surgery Recovery with Pelvic Floor PT
Part 3 of our Endometriosis Series: Have you recently had endometriosis excision surgery, or just have questions on what recovery might be like?At Foundations Pelvic Health, our pelvic floor PTs can help you progress through your recovery and get you back to doing all the things you love!
Preparing for Endometriosis Excision Surgery
Part II of our Endometriosis Series: Are you preparing for your endometriosis excision surgery? This blog post goes through how pelvic floor therapy can help you manage your symptoms and pain while waiting for your surgery date, help you understand what the surgery might entail, and discuss what recovery may be like.
The Low-Down on Lubricant
Lubricants do their job by keeping things wet and reducing friction during penetration, making sex more pleasurable for all. Here are a few tips so that you can pick out the right lubricant to have the most enjoyable sex possible!
Positioning and Stages of Labor
What are the 4 stages of labor? Let’s chat about that, and how different positions may be helpful during different stages of labor