It’s time to tame the taboo…Here’s what you need to know about your first pelvic floor physical therapy visit.

“I’m positioned at the bottom of the pelvis where no one even notices me or pays attention to me until an issue comes up. Suddenly, I’m transformed from a ‘nobody’ to someone that everyone wants to put on their ‘naughty list’. I wish people would know that an ounce of prevention is worth its weight in gold when it comes to taking proper care of me, and so for Christmas this year, I’m asking for the following:…..”

“We all stand on the sidelines and joke about peeing our pants, our “mom butt”, feeling like our insides are falling out of us, how sex is so different after having kids, or our “kangaroo pouch”, as if it’s a rite of passage into motherhood. However, just because you and everyone else around you is dealing with these things, that doesn’t make them normal and it certainly doesn’t mean that they can’t be fixed.”

…..“No specific set of exercises, no product, and certainly no magical kegel chair is going to solve all of your pelvic floor problems. To claim that any of these things will resolve your symptoms simply undermines the complexity of the role of the pelvic floor muscles within the movement system as a whole.”