What is Your Core?

What is Your Core?

The “core” is a trendy term that’s gained a lot of popularity in recent years. It’s heard in many places including social media, gyms, studios, and physical therapy clinics. The core is a colloquial term used to describe a group of trunk muscles that are integral to every movement your body makes. What makes up…

Coping With Pelvic Pain

Coping With Pelvic Pain

Although pelvic pain affects about 16% of the population, and possibly more since it is under-reported, men and women who suffer from this condition often feel alone and isolated. Common feelings associated with pelvic pain include depression, anxiety, hopelessness, a sense of shame, a sense of feeling like damaged goods, suicidal thoughts, and frustration with…

A Six Pack Split (Abdominal Separation)

A Six Pack Split (Abdominal Separation)

This months blog is about splitting your ‘six pack’ and I don’t mean the beverages. We’re talking about separation of the abdominal muscle, the rectus abdominis, termed diastasis recti or recti diastasis. The easiest way to describe it is if your abdominal ‘six pack’ muscle divorced itself with the left and right side separating to…

Mulvodynia? Vulvar Pain is No Laughing Matter

Mulvodynia? Vulvar Pain is No Laughing Matter

Remember that episode of Seinfeld when Jerry forgot his new girlfriend’s name? All he could remember was that it rhymed with a female body part. Testing out some options, he whispered, “Mulva….” in her direction, but he got no response. What is the Vulva? Mulva, of course, rhymes with vulva. The vulva is really a…