Video: The #1 Mistake to Avoid with Vaginal Dilator Training
Are you using vaginal dilators to overcome pain with intimacy or pelvic pain, but you’re still experiencing discomfort during training? If so, stop right now! Pain during dilator training could be working against your progress – and Susan Winograd PT, Founder and Owner of Pelvicore Rehab & Wellness, is here to explain why, and how to use dilators the right way.
Breaking the Silence When Intimacy Hurts: From Silence to Strength | A Pelvic Floor Therapist’s Perspective on Overcoming Pain with Intimacy
I was surprised when one of my clients walked into my clinic at the end of a long workday without an appointment. I must have given her a look of surprise because she immediately welled up with tears and said, “I just came to give you a hug, the pain is gone.”
Video: Top 5 Ways Dilators Can Help You Overcome Pain with Intimacy, Vaginismus
If you’re struggling with discomfort or pain with intimacy or even vaginismus, vaginal dilators may be a good option to explore. Vaginal dilators offer many benefits, including allowing the muscles to gradually stretch muscles throughout time, improving blood flow, reducing inflammation, and introducing gentle stretching of pelvic floor muscles throughout time. A pelvic floor physical therapist may be able to help you and guide you throughout this process.
How to Heal Heartburn (Acid Reflux) Naturally without Medication: GERD Gone!! Part 2
Remember in our last blog, the first part of our reflux series we talked about how the the respiratory diaphragm, the muscle for breathing can be the culprit of acid reflux (heartburn symptoms)!!!!
How to Heal Heartburn without Medication: Part 1
Acid Reflux (GERD), commonly called heartburn, is that irritating burning pain in your chest or throat can be very uncomfortable throughout the day and can make sleeping very difficult.
Reverse Kegels: How to Relax Your Pelvic Floor
Pelvic floor muscle strengthening exercises are most commonly referred to as Kegels. The purpose of “Regular” Kegel exercises is to strengthen pelvic floor muscle that are weak. This would likely help people that have weak pelvic floor muscles, pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence and/or the inability to hold back gas.
Tailbone Pain During Pregnancy & After Birth
The coccyx, more commonly known as the tailbone is a triangular shaped bone at the end of the spine. It actually represents a vestigial tail that disappears at around 8 weeks of gestation, hence the name tailbone. There is variance between individuals in coccyx anatomy and can consist of 3 to 5 different bones connected by ligaments at the bottom of the sacrum.
A Pain in the Butt!
Did you know that by age 50, about 50% of people will have experienced hemorrhoids and 75% of people will suffer from them at some point in their lives?
