Welcome to the Institute for Pelvic Health™!
Real pelvic health education for your real clinical situations.
A knot in my pelvis... ouch
Such a good question! And one that we get asked all the time! Here’s a definition from the American Academy of Family Physicians,
“Trigger points are discrete, focal, hyperirritable spots located in a taut band of skeletal muscle. They produce...
Reviving Libido: with Andrea Martin, WHNP
In this week's video, we are demystifying low libido with expert speaker Andrea Martin, sex med NP. Here's what we cover:
Approaching the low libido discussion with your patients.
Rx options for low libido
Clinical pearl: Lack of FDA approval does not...
We’re expanding our interdisciplinary lens this week! We were recently invited to the JustASK! podcast, a great sexual health podcast hosted by Heather Cox Quaile, a fabulous WHNP and owner of the SHOW center, and Tara Thompson, a super smart and passionate sexual health...
All you ever wanted to know about dilators!
Prescribe dilator therapy with confidence
You’ve heard about dilators but have so many questions. In this week’s video, we’ll answer them all!
We’ll learn:
what are dilators exactly?
how do they work?
...Dyspareunia: practical tools to help your patient
Another patient on your schedule with dyspareunia!
They’ve had 3 pelvic ultrasounds that have all been unremarkable.
You know that you don’t want to prescribe lidocaine because numbing isn’t the answer. You...
The pelvic floor may be a player in your patient’s constipation
The pelvic floor supports urinary, bowel, and sexual health.
This week is a replay of one of our most popular videos, with almost 2500 views!
In this video, we’ll learn about:
the puborectalis and...
Our most popular YouTube video: The Bimanual Exam!
With almost 6500 views, this video will give you valuable tips on how to make the pelvic exam more comfortable for your patient and help you to get the right differential!
Are you ready to change the paradigm of the pelvic exam?
Watch our...
Melissa's journey to become a pelvic floor therapist
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In today's episode, Melissa will tell us everything about her beautiful journey to become a pelvic floor therapist. Melissa had Lyme disease when she was a little girl. She was seen by many traditional doctors-and also...
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In today’s episode, Melissa and Kathy will chat about the cisgender male pelvic floor; muscles, dysfunctions, and an alternative to those long-lasting antibiotics therapies that don't seem to work.
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In today's episode, Melissa and Kathy will walk us through a REAL CLINICAL situation - Ectropion cyst. Melissa's patient, a young woman with a long history of treated pudendal neuralgia, presents to her office with unexplained bleeding.
Watch how our interdisciplinary team at Wellest...
Nerve distribution of the pelvic floor
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In today’s episode, Melissa and Kathy chat about the nerve distribution within the pelvic floor.
Not all urinary/bowel/sexual reproductive symptoms come from the viscera alone.
Redness, itchiness, and discharge (with negative cultures) are...
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In today’s episode, Kathy walks us through a REAL CLINICAL situation- chronic constipation, and how she incorporates some of the pelvic assessment tools into her 15-20 min office visit.
Don’t miss this video - it’s packed with clinical pearls that you’ll want to...