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How To Relieve SI Joint Pain During Pregnancy
The key to SI joint pain is pelvic mobility followed by lumbopelvic stability! SI joint pain can affect up to 50% of women during pregnancy 🤯 And it is probably one of the most common complaints I receive from patients and from this online community. Your SI joint typically does not have much movement prior to pregnancy, but it can move a few mm during pregnancy. Your pelvis and hips crave mobility during pregnancy (not necessarily long duration stretches). Which is why I recommend performing these lumbopelvic mobility drills to reduce your SI joint pain, and then follow them up with stability to keep your SI joint pain at bay. 🤰 www.drmaehughes.com
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
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How to Engage Your Core
Reconnecting with your pelvic floor & core muscles postpartum can be quite tricky, and for good reason! ➡️ Both your pelvic floor & abdominal musculature stretch during pregnancy to accommodate the growth & delivery of your baby — and a stretched muscle has a hard time contracting just like an over stretched hair tie. While there is no pressure to “bounce back” postpartum, I do encourage my patients to begin gentle movement before 6 weeks that includes breathwork & deep core engagement like this to help reconnect with parts of your body that often feel like jello. 🙌 Learning to reconnect with your core and pelvic floor correctly can also help prevent/reduce incontinence, low back pain, diastasis, etc. If you want a guided postpartum rehab program, go to www.drmaehughes.com
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
Pushing With Your Pelvic Floor In Mind
PREPARE AND PROTECT YOUR PELVIC FLOOR WHILE PUSHING Are you looking to reduce severe perineal tearing during childbirth? What about reducing your risk of developing prolapse postpartum? How about shortening labor? Those all sound great right? Once you learn how to push with your pelvic floor in mind, you’ll unlock pushing, position, breathwork and perineal prep techniques that will help you improve your overall labor experience to lead you into a smoother postpartum recovery.
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Reduce Pelvic Floor Tension Throughout the Workday
Don’t let workday stress affect your pelvic floor! Did you know that tension in your feet, hips and even lats can all contribute to pelvic floor tension? And pelvic floor tension can contribute to symptoms like incontinence, painful intercourse, pelvic pain, low back pain and more! This is largely due to the vast fascial system that connects just about every part of your body! Try these 5 exercises in the middle of your work day (whether you work from the home or at an office) to release your tight pelvic floor. Try these today and let me know how it goes!
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
If I was pregnant and due with my first child, here's what I'd do during my pregnancy
You are worthy of a beautiful birth experience. But also remember, sometimes you can do ALL of the right things, and the outcome is still different than what you desired. Some things are just out of our control 🖤 That is why there is pelvic floor PT to help you rehab and recover postpartum. Click to read my tips!
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
MovementThrough Motherhood: FEMALE FITNESS GROUNDED IN PELVIC FLOOR WELLNESS
Women have the strongest, bravest hearts I know, and I want to give them that same confidence in their bodies. You can do the workouts you love during and after pregnancy. You can prepare your body for motherhood and postpartum. You can find relief for pelvic floor dysfunction and even stop pain before it starts.
I wish all postpartum moms knew that It takes longer than 6 weeks to recover
You don’t have to do it all, and you definitely don’t have to do it alone. Ask for help, take your time, and know that you are enough exactly as you are. What is something you wish you knew about the postpartum journey prior to having your baby? Share with a new mom who needs to hear this today.
How Do I Know If I Have A Weak Pelvic Floor?
For women, the pelvic floor is a crucial part of core strength and overall functionality. If your torso is a soda can, your pelvic floor is the bottom of it, maintaining proper pressure and keeping everything where it belongs. When your pelvic floor is weak or out of balance, a number of symptoms can pop up! I treat women with pelvic floor issues all the time in my office. It’s a very common problem, and there’s no shame in it! Typically, pelvic floor dysfunction shows up in three ways..click to keep reading! www.drmaehughes.com
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