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Ep. 8 - A Biopsychosocial Approach: How to Overcome Persistent Pain For Good!

Release Date: 02/14/2023

Ep. 33 - Why NOW is the time to take control of your health AND your Health Insurance?

Your Pelvic Health

In today's episode we are chatting with Melanie Costa-Silva. Melanie is a licensed health insurance agent since 2012. This was her first career role. In 2012 Melanie went through my own journey of pursuing care and found that our system does not cater to seeing that people get well, moreso it is trained in keeping them sick. This is where she chose to break the mold and look at our healthcare through a different lens. Follow us @pelvicorerehab and share any questions you have on Pelvic Health or share your experience overcoming Pelvic Health related issues. Episode Notes: How...

Ep. 32 - Cultural Sensitivity: Religion and Sex with Rivki Chudnoff

Your Pelvic Health

Rivki Chudnoff PT, MSPT has over twenty years of experience specializing in the treatment of women’s health-related issues and pelvic floor dysfunction, with a focus on pelvic pain, unconsummated marriages, prenatal and postpartum care, and incontinence. Rivki has written extensively on women’s health issues and presented on pelvic health internationally at marriage retreats, community events, and to physicians and sexual educators. Rivki is an instructor for the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Institute, where she provides continuing education for healthcare professionals in the area of...

Ep. 31 - How to BEST prepare for a positive birth experience while protecting your Pelvic Floor and a full postpartum recovery with Chantal Traub

Your Pelvic Health

Chantal Traub is a prominent New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and wellness coach. In her 20-plus years in practice, she has become internationally acclaimed for her expertise on the pelvic floor and her Pushing Power technique. Early on, Traub identified a severe lack of preparation among birthing people for the pushing stage of labor. Thus began a mission to properly educate and teach birthing moms—and professionals in the field—to better understand the pelvic floor; through her classes, her one-on-one work and her doula practice, Traub has helped thousands of...

Ep. 30 - The RIGHT way to improve GI/Gut Health and Function for long term results with Susan Clinton

Your Pelvic Health

Dr. Clinton is an award-winning physical therapist in professional achievement and the owner of LTI Physio in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Susan is board certified in orthopedic and women’s health physical therapy, a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy, and a board certified health, wellness and life coach. She is an international instructor/mentor of post-professional education in women’s health (including GI issues in women), orthopedic manual therapy, health/wellness coaching for the health care practioner and business psychology. Susan is the co-founder and...

Ep. 29 - Fascia: Our internal communication medium: How can Myofascial Release Therapy help improve so much more than just aches and pains with Rachel Williams MSPT

Your Pelvic Health

Today we are chatting with Rachel Williams MSPT, the Founder Midtown Physical Therapy in NYC Rachel is an expert John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Therapist.. Rachel pioneered a manually based, functional style to physical therapy utilizing a variety of treatment approaches called human touch physical therapy HTPT to help balance patients wellness as a whole. Rachel is an expert level John F. Barnes Myofascial Release (MFR) therapist. Her patients are treated as a whole. She facilitates balancing their mind/body/machine utilizing the MFR paradigm and HTPT. She assists teaching MFR classes...

Ep. 28 - Busting Myths About Diastasis Rectus Abdominus

Your Pelvic Health

In today's episode we are chatting with Antony Lo. Antony Lo is a physiotherapist, educator and podcast host from Australia who works at the junction of Musculoskeletal/Ortho, Sports, and Pelvic Health. He runs The Physio Detective Clinic, My PT Education, The Women’s Heal4th Podcast, and The Diastasis Project. He helps the general public and health and fitness professionals who struggle to progress their clients by cutting through the BS and thinking outside the box so they confidently assist people to achieve their goals. Antony has a wife and 3 children, living in the best city in the...

Ep. 27 - How Can You Use Food as Medicine for Pelvic Healing? With Megan Perez

Your Pelvic Health

Megan Perez earned a Masters Degree in Nutrition in 2013. She has continued her education by completing courses in integrative and functional nutrition, mindful eating, digestive disorders (such as IBS, SIBO, and IBD), eating disorders and intuitive eating, and also hormone health (specifically fertility, hypothalamic amenorrhea, and PCOS). She has a personal history with digestive distress, PCOS, and infertility, and I have a big, big heart for anyone struggling. Megan is now an integral member of the Pelvicore team. Nutrition plays an important role in a pelvic healing journey. She...

Ep. 26 - How Are These Common Birth Patterns Affecting Your Birth Healing and Subsequent Pregnancies with Lynn Schulte

Your Pelvic Health

In today’s episode we are chatting with Lynn Schulte. Lynn is a Birth Healing Specialist and Pelvic Health Physical Therapist for over 30 years and founder of the Institute for Birth Healing, an educational platform for practitioners and Center for Birth Healing, her clinical practice. She has been helping moms heal from all the issues women experience after birth and is now teaching courses to bodyworkers to help them do the same. She found a common birth pattern that shows up in the pelvis after birth and knows how to effectively release these patterns. Knowing we...

Ep. 25 - How to Train Your Brain Away From Pain with Dr. Alexandra Milspaw

Your Pelvic Health

In today’s episode we are chatting with Dr. Alexandra Milspaw. Dr. Milspaw is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania, an AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, and Board Certified Hypnotist. She is the author of Hello Down There: A Guide to Healing Pelvic and Sexual Pain. Dr. Milspaw serves as the Director of Behavioral Health Services for Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine, a nationally-known physiatry practice specializing in chronic pelvic pain. Dr. Milspaw serves on the Executive Board of the International Pelvic Pain Society and has been the Director of their Clinical...

Ep. 24 - Why Does This Personality Type Develop Pelvic Pain and Urinary Issues? With Michael Hodge

Your Pelvic Health

In today’s episode we are chatting with Michael Hodge who went through 5 years of severe pelvic pain, nagging urinary issues, and deflating sexual dysfunction in his 20’s. After returning back to strength, he went on a deep path to discover the root cause of these perplexing mind-body issues. Since teaming up with well-known pelvic expert Dr. Brianne Grogan, Michael has helped over 1,000 men to recover through a proven program that is beginning to capture the attention of scientists and physicians hungry for a proven treatment. Follow us @pelvicorerehab and share any questions you have on...

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In today's Episode We had a great conversation with Carolyn Vandyden.

Carolyn Vandyken is a Registered Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Educator, Researcher, Author and co-owner of Physio Works Muskoka.

Carolyn is one of the co-owners of Reframe Rehab, a Canadian-based, international teaching company with a mandate to educate healthcare professionals about integrating a biopsychosocial approach into health care and to pelvic health.

She has co-authored a patient-centered book called Why Pelvic Pain Hurts, and has co-authored five research papers on pelvic pain, low back pain and incontinence in peer reviewed journals and has contributed chapters to three international textbooks on pelvic pain and the overactive pelvic floor.

Follow us @pelvicorerehab and share any questions you have on Pelvic Health or share your experience overcoming Pelvic Health related issues.

Episode Notes: What you will learn from this episode:

What is the state of physiotherapy today and where should we be heading?

What are the challenges that we face in embracing a whole-person approach?

What does the term central sensitization mean and how can we incorporate strategies into our pelvic health plan of care for clients to help them retrain a sensitive nervous system?

How do bladder urgency/Overactive Bladder Syndrome and IBS fit with a sensitive nervous system?

It's not enough to implement strategies to calm the nervous system, we need to phenotype what is going on through a series of questionnaires (SADD-CLIFFS) and base our strategies on the clients self reported answers.

How does using a Biopsychosocial Approach complement pelvic health and healing and overcoming persistent pain?

To truly help the patient in front of us with low back pain and pelvic health complaints, what are the skills that we need to develop in order to be effective clinicians (breaking down the silos between orthopedics, pelvic health, pain science and lifestyle interventions)

Takeaways for listeners

Change is hard but non-negotiable….
We have to move beyond “paying lip service” to the biopsychosocial approach and really engage with this practice.
2023 is the year of change for clinicians.
Embrace it! You will love it, your patients will love it

Where can you find more from Carolyn:

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Website: www.reframerehab.com

Instagram: @Reframerehab

Facebook: @reframerehab

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