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Real pelvic health education for your real clinical situations. 

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Patient Education: Toileting Position

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In this week’s video, we talk through:  

   One of our favorite patient education handouts, “Toileting Position." You'll get this amazing handout in both English and Spanish when you take our course Beyond the Kegel™, and it's also in the...

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Find all your Pelvic Health Resources in ONE Place!

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In this week’s video, we’re super excited to introduce the IPH Resource Center!

Melissa & Kathy have done the research for you; no more going down the internet rabbit hole!

Create a free login to find 

  ALL of your pelvic health information in one place

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Clinical pearl: Create your own Vaginal Wall Retractor!

 

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In this week’s video, we talk through:  

 

  An amazing pearl for visualization when you do a speculum exam on someone with anterior wall prolapse.

 

  How to create your own vaginal wall retractor using only a condom, scissors, alcohol...

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Postural Assessment for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

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We’ve created a handy tool to help you with your postural assessment.

 

 In this week’s video, we talk through:  

  The importance of pelvic alignment on pelvic floor dysfunction.

  Useful tips to start your assessment right away.

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Using the Bristol Stool Chart

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In this week’s video we talk through: 

 

  How your pelvic floor muscles support your pelvic health

 

  Using the Bristol stool chart with a pelvic floor lens

 

  Why Bristol type 1 indicates that there may be pelvic floor muscle...

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Stress Urinary Incontinence and Rectocele | Personalized Plan for SUI

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In this week’s video we talk through:

An interdisciplinary approach to a case study: Stress Urinary Incontinence and Rectocele.

The importance of a conscious GU evaluation - external & internal.

      Why your external exam matters

      Why...

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Kathy & Melissa's Story: How we Found the Pelvic Floor Specialty

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In this week’s video we talk through:

NP journey from patient to Pelvic floor specialist

PT discovering of Pelvic Floor Therapy

How they pair up to co-found the Institute for Pelvic Health and help patients together

 

Watch our video for all the details!

 

 

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IC/BPS- How to Help your Patient

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In this week’s video we talk through:

  IC/BPS Case Study.

  Narrowing down symptoms and systems.

  Importance of diaphragmatic breathing, moisturizing, and dilator therapy.

 

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"4 Tips for...

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Vaginal Lubricants: Insights for NPs and their Patients

Vaginal Moisturizers: Insights for NPs and their Patients

Hi there! In this week’s video, we talk through:

Ingredients in lubricants.

Natural humectants.

Importance of reading the labels.

 

Watch our video for all the details!

 

 

 

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"4 Tips for...

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Postpartum Pelvic Floor Recovery- What Practitioners Need to Know

 

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In this week’s video we talk through:

The importance of postpartum pelvic floor evaluation.

Assessing pelvic floor muscle tone and motor control.

Importance of moisturizing.

 

Watch our video for all the details!  

  

 

 

 

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Osmolality of Lube: Info all NPs Need to Know

Osmolality of Lube: Info all NPs need to know

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In this week’s video we talk through:

Why osmolality of lubricant matter for pelvic floor health.

Choosing the right lubricant.

What type of lubricant is best.

 

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Compounding Pharmacy for Pelvic Health: Why you Should use one in your Clinical Practice

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As an FNP with over 10 years of experience, I’ll be honest, I knew NOTHING about compounding pharmacy. My limited knowledge about compounding rx was based on the negative press around compounding bioidentical hormone therapy (BHRT).

 

I’m in the state of MA, and...

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