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Medications May Affect Pelvic Floor Function – Let’s Talk About Adderall
Medications can be an essential part of treatment for various diseases and conditions. It’s important to recognize how certain drugs may impact other areas of your health — including the pelvic floor. They can affect your pelvic floor health and rehabilitation...
Sexual Health after Cancer: What Women Need to Know
Cancer treatment can be lifesaving. But for many survivors, especially those who undergo pelvic radiation or reproductive surgeries, it brings side effects that impact sexual and pelvic health. If you’re navigating this phase of healing, you are not alone. There are...
Babywearing & Your Pelvic Floor: What Every Parent Should Know
Becoming a parent means learning a whole new way of moving through the world—with a baby in tow. Babywearing is a popular, practical, and a deeply connective way to keep your baby close while freeing up your hands. But as physical therapists specializing in pelvic...
Diastasis Recti: What You Should Know
Diastasis Recti (DR) is common, but it isn’t straightforward. Let’s break it down so you can better understand what’s happening in your body and how to support it. What is Diastasis Recti? Diastasis recti is a separation of the rectus abdominis (your "six-pack"...
Motherhood Unfiltered: Coping with Pregnancy and Postpartum Discomfort
Pregnancy is a transformative and joyous time for most women. However, it brings about many physical changes. The biomechanical, hormonal, and vascular changes during pregnancy make women more likely to develop musculoskeletal issues. The growing uterus changes the...
Considering Gender-affirming Surgery? A Pelvic-floor Physical Therapist Before and After Surgery Can Help Facilitate Your Recovery
For people seeking gender-affirming surgeries of various kinds, there are benefits to working with a physical therapist before and after surgery. The therapists at Solstice Physiotherapy are experienced in this area and are well equipped to help you along your...
Improve Sexual Function and the Ability to Achieve Orgasm with Pelvic Floor Therapy
What is an orgasm? Why do some people have difficulty achieving orgasm? How can pelvic floor therapy help? An orgasm is a combination of physiological and psychological responses to sexual stimulation. The responses include: Sexual stimulation: An orgasm is typically...
Why is Pelvic Floor Strengthening Important?
Pelvic floor muscles play an important role in the body. They: provide organ support - The pelvic floor muscles support important abdominal organs, for example the bladder, uterus and rectum, against gravity and any downward pressure. support skeletal stability help...
Feeling Bloated at Day’s End? You May Suffer from Abdomino-phrenic Dyssynergia.
Someone who suffers from Abdomino-phrenic dyssynergia (APD) will notice that upon waking their stomach is fairly flat. However, at the end of the day it will be very bloated and distended, regardless of if the person has moved their bowels or not. APD is a relatively...
Pelvic Pain & Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Blog Articles
A Prostate Disorder is Just One Reason Men Suffer from Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
When people think about pelvic floor pain, they often picture it as only a women’s issue. This cannot be further from the truth. Men experience pelvic floor dysfunction, too. The male pelvic floor plays a vital role in bladder, bowel, sexual and core function. Just...
Medications May Affect Pelvic Floor Function – Let’s Talk About Adderall
Medications can be an essential part of treatment for various diseases and conditions. It’s important to recognize how certain drugs may impact other areas of your health — including the pelvic floor. They can affect your pelvic floor health and rehabilitation...
Sexual Health after Cancer: What Women Need to Know
Cancer treatment can be lifesaving. But for many survivors, especially those who undergo pelvic radiation or reproductive surgeries, it brings side effects that impact sexual and pelvic health. If you’re navigating this phase of healing, you are not alone. There are...
Babywearing & Your Pelvic Floor: What Every Parent Should Know
Becoming a parent means learning a whole new way of moving through the world—with a baby in tow. Babywearing is a popular, practical, and a deeply connective way to keep your baby close while freeing up your hands. But as physical therapists specializing in pelvic...
Diastasis Recti: What You Should Know
Diastasis Recti (DR) is common, but it isn’t straightforward. Let’s break it down so you can better understand what’s happening in your body and how to support it. What is Diastasis Recti? Diastasis recti is a separation of the rectus abdominis (your "six-pack"...
Why is Pelvic Floor Strengthening Important?
Pelvic floor muscles play an important role in the body. They: provide organ support - The pelvic floor muscles support important abdominal organs, for example the bladder, uterus and rectum, against gravity and any downward pressure. support skeletal stability help...
Pregnancy & Postpartum Blog Articles
CrossFit & Pregnancy
Before becoming pregnant, I wondered if I could do CrossFit with a big belly. It would be a lot of pressure and honestly, really hard to do. Then I became pregnant, took some CrossFit classes and found out that it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Why? Because...
Returning to Running Postpartum
A very common question we hear from our postpartum patients is, “How soon can I run after giving birth?” Often a new Mom is cleared by her physician to exercise, but she may not feel ready to get back to running. Why would someone feel this way? During pregnancy, the...
Prep to Push: How to Have a (relatively) Pain-Free delivery & Recovery
Being pelvic floor physical therapists, Erica and I have treated many women that have had a traumatic childbirth. For example, pushing for a very long time, large tears, pubic bone separation, use of forceps or vacuum, as well as prolapse. These new moms were not...
Retraining Your Core Postpartum
Pregnancy and postpartum causes changes in our bodies, sometimes big changes and sometimes small. Delivering a child is truly the miracle of life and shows us a different side of our bodies, a side we didn’t think our bodies were capable of. On the flip side, it is...
Post-partum check-up: I have the ok (to do what? Return to “normal” activities?). But should I?
Most women go through pregnancy with multiple doctor appointments, scans, blood and other tests. They see their OBGYN every 4 weeks during pregnancy. They give birth, leave the hospital relatively quickly and return home. Now what to do? You will visit your health...
Endometriosis Blog Articles
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Sexual Health Blog Articles
An Overlooked Pelvic Pain Disorder: Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
Have you heard of Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD)? Featured in a Season 2 episode of Grey’s Anatomy, this condition is, unfortunately, not openly discussed. PGAD describes the phenomenon of frequent and sudden genital arousal. A key symptom of PGAD is that...
All You Need to Know About Personal Lubricants
Every “body” is different, has different tolerance to friction, and a different biological environment. A lubricant can be used for penetrative sex, masturbation, and therapeutically for internal treatment and relaxation. Using the proper lubricant can help maintain...
Is It a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) or Pelvic Pain?
I am sure that most women have experienced a UTI at some point in their life. Typical symptoms include bladder pain, burning with urination, peeing frequently and sometimes peeing blood. This can be very uncomfortable. The common action that is taken is a visit to a...
Post-Surgery Blog Articles
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