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Real pelvic health education for your real clinical situations. 

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Our most popular YouTube video: The Bimanual Exam!

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?

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Nerve distribution of the pelvic floor

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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Everything you need to know for billing and coding!

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Are you wondering how to bill when you incorporate the pelvic floor evaluation into your practice? In today's episode, Melissa and Kathy will share all the tips and tricks they use for coding and billing in their practice.

You won’t want to miss any second of this video......

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The WHY behind IPH

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In this week’s video, we will talk about the Why behind IPH

 

  How a PT and an NP joined forces to create an institute to empower and educate NPs and CNM's on how to access the pelvic floor and not see patients with 5+ years of pain.

Do you know that there are...

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Your extension table, are you using it?

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Do you know that the extension table that you’ve seen every day can actually…...

 

  Help you with positioning your patients for their pelvic exam

  Allow you to use different size speculums with ease

  Allow you to confidently NOT use the...

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The Pelvic Floor and Pregnancy: How to Keep your Patient’s Pelvis Healthy

Today we’re talking about the prenatal pelvic floor. 90% of our patients do a Kegel when asked to bear down, but doing a Kegel won’t help you deliver a baby. Educating your patients on how to push during delivery is one of the best and most empowering ways you can help them prepare...

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Vaginismus and the Pelvic Floor: How to Better help Patients with this Condition

This week, we’re talking about vaginismus and why you should consider the pelvic floor muscles.

 

If you ever wondered, “What is vaginismus exactly???” 

 

Here’s your answer! When patients have vaginismus, muscles around the introitus tighten in response to...

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Vaginal moisture: Why it matters and how practitioners can help with special guest Dr. Anna Cabeca

This week we talked with the fabulous Dr. Anna Cabeca. She is Triple Board Certified in OBGYN, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine and is known to her fans as the girlfriend doctor.

 

She has two bestselling books, The Hormone Fix, a groundbreaking holistic...

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Recurrent UTIs: Why They Happen and How to Help

This week, we’re chatting about recurrent UTIs and how they affect the pelvic floor muscles.

We talk through: 

What defines recurrent UTIs

What to consider when patients treated with antibiotics continue to have symptoms

The importance of diaphragmatic breathing 

Why you may...

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Recurrent BV and the Pelvic Floor: Critical Insights all Practitioners Need to Know

BV is a common vaginal infection that affects women in their reproductive years. In this week's video, we will be talking about vaginitis and how it affects the pelvic floor muscles.

BV can cause pelvic floor dysfunction, especially if it's recurring

BV is characterized by a shift in vaginal...

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Performing a bimanual exam for Pelvic Pain: Top Tips for Practitioners

In this week's video, we will be talking about the bimanual exam and how to start thinking about the pelvic floor. Here's what we cover: 

 

  Overview of bulbospongiosus anatomy

  How to do a bulbospongiosus release 

  Best practices for the internal exam

 

The...

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What is Pelvic Floor Therapy?

In this week's video, you’ll gain insights into the benefits of pelvic floor therapy for women and why you should consider it for patients experiencing pelvic pain, urinary or fecal incontinence, or other pelvic floor disorders.

What goes into a pelvic assessment?

An overview of pelvic...

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