99% of the time you don’t need to be adding a bunch of new exercises to your routine to overcome your pelvic floor symptoms!! Most of the women I work with are active & busy and have too much tension in their pelvic floor. In the past, when they tried doing a bunch of “pelvic floor exercises” th

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PSA: there’s a lot more to fixing your bladder leakage with running than just “strengthening your pelvic floor” #pelvicfloorexercises #postpartumrecovery #incontinence #womenshealth

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Life gets a lot better when you take the risk. I always felt aligned with the career I chose but not the life it gave me. I wanted more for myself, more time with husband (and future kids) & to build something I was passionate about. Yes, it was scary to take a chance on myself and being an

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1. your pain gets worse on your period 2. 💩 relieves your back pain 3. you constantly have to engage your core for “relief” 4. you have a small “bladder” (< 2 hours between pees) 5. sex hurts 6. your hips ALWAYS feel tight 7. postpartum & never rebuilt your core and pelvic floor 8. you have

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50% of women have a prolapse at some point in their life but most women hadn’t even heard of prolapse until they started noticing these signs😌 If you’re struggling with any of these signs or symptoms, know that you can come out on the other side of it & get back to doing the things you love with

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Being told you have prolapse feels scary, isolating and confusing🤍 it’s challenging to know where to start and that’s because what’s right for you depends on you & what you want to get back to doing. So many women I’ve worked with that have a prolapse diagnosis have come out on the other side o

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Having a tight pelvic floor doesn’t mean you have to stop strength training & here’s why👇🏼 Part of the reason your pelvic floor is tight because your it’s compensating for other muscle weaknesses that are in your body. Aka when your hips, glutes, inner thighs, etc. aren’t doing their job, the pe

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clearly not biased with number 3&5💁🏼‍♀️ #pelvicfloor #pelvicfloorexercises #womenshealth #postpartum #pregnancy

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If I could tell you the first thing you need to do to start healing your pelvic floor, it would be this👆🏼 Building a good internal foundation with your breath, core & pelvic floor has to be step one if you want to fix your leakage or heaviness. #pelvicfloorexercises #postpartumrecovery #

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Pelvic floor issues have become so normalized that women are changing their lives instead of addressing the reason they’re happening… Modifying or avoiding workouts. Wearing pads or only black leggings. Feeling uncomfortable in your body most of the day. Saying “mommy can’t” when your kids

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should you stop lifting with pelvic floor symptoms?

Feeling pelvic heaviness, pressure, bulging, or like a tampon is “falling out” is scary… You’re probably worried that lifting & working out is going to make things worse. But avoiding movement and workouts all together can actually worsen your symptoms overtime. If you’re not sure where to

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I refuse to let symptoms or pain hold me back from seeing the world, challenging hikes or once in a lifetime experiences. But I’ve been there before. There was a time where my back pain was so debilitating I didn’t know if I’d be able to go on a 6 hour flight and do an overnight volcano hike.

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if the exercises or strategies you’re doing are making your symptoms worse, then they’re not the right fit for you. progress isn’t linear. setbacks are normal. but those setbacks should be short lived & progress should continue to happen! and if you feel more heavy, have more leakage/urge

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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 1. feeling like a tampon is stuck when you’re not wearing one 2. struggling passing gas or 💩 3. having to push to start peeing 4. tailbone pain with sitting 5. feeling “loose” during intimacy 6. feeling like you constantly need to pee (even if you just went) 7. queefing with exercis

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your life was never meant to be lived by you having to hold back💕 so many women I work with wish they would’ve started healing & getting answers sooner because pelvic floor issues start to creep in to how you show up for yourself & your family but you have the ability to change that by getti

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supportive husbands >>> #postpartum #pelvicfloor #postpartumrecovery

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manual therapy & pelvic floor release shouldn’t be the main part of your pelvic floor rehab it’s should be used in combo with nervous system regulation, exercise & good lifestyle changes to be honest, I do recommend pelvic wands to some of my clients with pelvic floor tension but it’s a tool

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forgot to mention that this shed used to be an alpaca barn…we got our work cut out for us but I’m excited for this gym transformation🙌🏼 p.s. every time I say “we,” just know my husband is doing 95% of the labor and I’m the visionary🤷‍♀️ #homegym #shredshed #physicaltherapist #pelvichea

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a prolapse diagnosis doesn’t mean you can’t run again…you just gotta prep your body to tolerate impact again without stressing your pelvic floor out💕 these are the 3 phases I take all my clients through who have prolapse & want to get back to running #pelvicfloorexercises #postpartumrecov

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tight hips = tight pelvic floor bladder urgency is more than just a pelvic floor issue… it can be a hip or spine mobility & strength issue, nervous system issue, or brain-bladder miscommunication issue depending on what’s going on in your body but it’s never just a pelvic floor issue so w

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Dr. Alyssa | Pelvic Floor PT