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What is a hypertonic pelvic floor?
A hypertonic muscle is one that is too tight and therefore difficult to move. The pelvic floor is made of many small muscles working together; when one or more of these muscles become hypertonic, problems can...
Jenny has a hard time focusing during the last 15 minutes of her meeting, crossing her legs and hoping no one asks a follow-up question so she can run to the bathroom before the next one starts.
Liz throws a megapack of pantyliners in her cart,...
"I just want to go out and spread the word like, "Hello, ladies! There's help for you!"
(00:05) I signed up because I was desperate. I've gone the physical therapist route here, a pelvic floor specialist, but I'd been there...
"I had never understood that after having my first child, it was almost like my back was being compressed. And then I had hip flexor tightness that was driving me bonkers. I would work out, I would do all these things to try and stretch, but ...
"It was awesome to find something that you guys had researched and known results for the problems that I was having of getting up in the middle of the night all the time to pee. But the biggest problem was literally about wetting my pants during...
"I'd been dealing with this problem for years - issues with my hip flexor pain and the pee issues that I was having. I was doing all of these things, and then it got to the point where I couldn't do anything without causing pain. And so then...
"Hi, my name is Jessica. I'm a childbirth educator and birth doula. As a woman who's given birth twice myself and had issues with diastasis recti and abdominal separation, chronic lower back pain. Also as a childbirth educator and birth doula, I...
"Hi, my name is Mary Anne, and I have pelvic organ prolapse. It means my vagina is falling out. I run to the bathroom too many times a day. And I have pelvic pressure, back pain pressure, and I'm very uncomfortable in a lot of settings.
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"Hey, I'm Lindsay, and I'm a mom of three. Well, I was having pain in my hip. I was having pain the whole time that I was pregnant for my third child, and I figured, ok, that this is just typical pregnancy pain. You just deal with it. Of course,...
"My name is Eliza. I have a daughter who is almost two. After I had my daughter, I was having some serious problems with my SI joint. It was giving me a lot of pain. I had been seeing a pelvic floor therapist for about six months, doing some...
If we could put a billboard up on the interstate it would probably include the message in today's show as a P.S.A. for all women to see!
The majority of the women who've worked with us have been guilty of doing at least one of these things.
They...