Tighten Your Tinkler Blog
What is perimenopause?
Like pelvic floor dysfunction, perimenopause has been getting more attention in recent years (and we’re here for that!). Nicknamed puberty 2.0 in this overview article by Oprah Daily, perimenopause describes the...
Imagine you’re snuggled in bed in the midst of a heavy storm, listening to the rain pelt the window, when all of a sudden you feel it: a drop of water on your forehead.
A few seconds pass, then you feel another. And another.
What would you...
Liz leans over the counter to help her third grader with his math – and feels wetness in her underwear. She didn’t have to go, so where did that come from!?
Juliette is having drinks with a friend. She bursts out laughing, immediately...
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,...
