600 Pies and Childbirth Prep
n, sorry.) But they don’t know to ask about prolapse. Having a conversation about prolapse BEFORE it happens is way easier than learning about it for the first time when you’re trying to take care of a new baby.
Great-grandmother’s Dinner Rolls and Postpartum Rehab
Is your postpartum rehab program failing you with it’s precision? Would you be better off with a framework and not a recipe?
I am the Oprah of Diastasis Recti
You get your sit ups back! You get your planks back! Learn more about why DRA clients are my fave! I really look forward to when someone comes in and wants their Diastasis Recti checked. They think “My abs are split down the middle. I need to get this fixed.” The general sentiment out there […]
Your Pelvic Floor Health Shouldn’t Dictate Your Fashion Choices
Your pelvic floor health shouldn’t dictate your fashion choices. REWIND Let’s start from the beginning. I am not a fashion expert, nor am I claiming to be one! But you can tell a lot about what’s going on with someone’s pelvic floor based on their fashion choices in a workout. I’m also seeing fitness professionals […]
Stop, Drop & Roll
Shut the door. Get outside immediately. Meet in the front yard. Remember the days when we had to make a plan & stick to it? If we didn’t, someone got hurt or lost or in really big trouble. Assembly time. In my rural childhood public school, the kind where Kindergarten & 12th grade were on […]
I won’t give it up
Run Carrie, run! Confession time. I love to run, but…I don’t run every day. I don’t read Runner’s World magazine like it’s the bible & a few years ago I finally branched out into exercise other than running. (Crossfit, I know. Not an expected move for a true die-hard runner.) Running is in my blood, but not […]
Hovering over the toilet seat
I found my spiritual writer twin, but we needed to have a chat. A few years ago I was asked to be a member of the Media Corps Team for the American Physical Therapy Association, a significant honor to stay the least. Being a spokesperson has been an incredible honor & I’ve had a ton of fun […]
Butt cramp in the name of science
It was the worst a$$ cramp of my life The things I do for my patients. I decided on a whim, to try out one of those newfangled electromagnetic pelvic floor chairs last year at the World Physiotherapy Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, where I was representing the US as a Delegate. It seemed harmless enough. […]
I don’t normally ask for this
It’s a broken record. For years, women come to me feeling guilty, like they should’ve figured out their problem on their own. Why did I lift so much? Why did I workout so hard during pregnancy? Why didn’t someone tell me not to run a month after my daughter was born? Why didn’t I know sex […]
Coconuts in the street
It makes no sense. A shattered coconut on the middle of a residential street on an April morning in Northern Virginia. Admit it. It’s weird. My 6 year old noticed remains of the coconut on our walk to the office during the 1st weeks of the pandemic.(She came to work with me twice each week for 14 […]