Pelvic Health blogs
Blogs about pelvic health to help you on your health journey.
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Rethinking Comfort in the Speculum Exam
Speculum exams are a vital part of women’s health care, but they’re often remembered with dread rather than comfort. Patients deserve agency, providers deserve better tools, and both deserve an exam experience that feels respectful. In this blog, Dr. Emily Fitch explores how comfort can be improved on both sides of the exam and how innovation is helping to reimagine the process.
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Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain: it is time to LEARN a NEW tune!
Why do tunes get stuck in our head? We like the tune or maybe we just heard it recently! For the same reason, we get stuck into treatment patterns because they are comfortable and familiar.
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What does 'Success' really mean in pelvic organ prolapse surgery?
When discussing surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) with patients, the number one question I hear is: What is the success rate?
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Why pelvic pain isn’t all in your head — and what you can do about it
Pelvic pain is real, not 'all in your head.' Learn from a pelvic pain specialist physiotherapist in Jersey about causes, treatments, and evidence-based strategies to manage chronic pelvic pain.
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My journey with levator avulsion
In 2017, I sustained injuries while giving birth to my first child. At the time, I knew things didn’t feel right. I went to see a few different medical and allied health professionals in the hope of someone telling me why I felt the way I did, but no-one did.
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Painful orgasm: understanding and overcoming Dysorgasmia
Orgasms can be the very welcome grand finale of an intimate experience. But if you’re someone who feels pain instead of pleasure at the peak moment, you’re not imagining it — and you’re not alone.
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Lichen Sclerosus
I want medical professionals to have training on Lichen Sclerosus and Vulva Cancer. I want leaflets in all surgeries and hospitals. I want children to be taught about Lichen Sclerosus in Sex Education lessons at school.
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Vulval cancer
Clare Baumhauer is a courageous UK-based advocate who co-founded Lichen Sclerosus & Vulval Cancer UK Awareness alongside Emma Norman. Her story is one of deep resilience, having endured decades of misdiagnosis before finally receiving a diagnosis of lichen sclerosus and vulval cancer in her 30s.
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The midlife strength solution: staying upright, active, and independent
As we get older, our muscle health naturally declines, and as a result, muscle strength and power decrease significantly.
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Enterocele, rectocele, or both?
Little talked about, often overlooked; enterocele is like the distant cousin who is a bit misunderstood compared to common cystocele and rectocele.
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