Welcome to the Institute for Pelvic Health™!
Real pelvic health education for your real clinical situations.
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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 Digital Clinician Resource Binder. A super helpf...
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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!
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✅ ALL of your pelvic health information in one place
✅ Our favorite videos, artic...
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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 wipes, and speculum.
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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.
✅ Practical and visual explanation of the impor...
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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 dysfunction
✅ Normalizing the discussion ar...
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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 your internal exam matters
✅ Wh...
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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
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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 Managing your Difficult ...
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.
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"4 Tips for Managing your ...
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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.
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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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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 on 1/1/21, NPs fin...