Six vital habits to improve your pelvic floor health! I've had so many great discussions about pelvic floor health with practitioners and patients alike! One that comes up frequently is how to strengthen the pelvic floor, and what are the alternatives to Kegels (or Pelvic Floor Exercises - depending on where you call home!) when attempting to improve the health of the pelvic floor. First off, while Kegels have their place in pelvic floor health, building strength does not mea

Often when we think of things that cause pelvic floor issues (including incontinence, prolapse, pain etc), we think of pregnancy and childbirth, or some kind of injury. However, there is a very good chance that during your day, there is something YOU are currently doing that is inhibiting your pelvic floor muscles' ability to work the way that they should. While this may not be a big deal if you do it once or twice, if you do it once every day, or perhaps once every hour, thi

Now that we know a bit more about what DR is and some of the non-pregnancy-related causes after reading Part 1, lets look at how we can start to resolve or prevent DR through our daily movement habits. While the following activities and movements do not necessarily cause harm on their own, it is the accumulation and combination of excessive and non aligned pressure over time that can contribute to DR. Becoming aware of the following points is a non-negotiable component of any

Your feet are your most frequent point of contact with the earth, this means that whatever is happening at ground level will affect EVERYTHING higher up, pelvic floor included. Your feet are pretty gosh darn amazing. Each foot is made up of 26 bones for a total of 33 joints which are able to adapt to an almost infinite number of positions and shapes. Add to this an intricate system of muscles, nerves, and blood vessels, and you have an incredible piece of complex machinery th

Recently I have been asked by the American Recall Centre (who supplied the infographic above) to write about Osteoporosis, in order to help increase awareness about this all too common condition. While not directly a pelvic health-related topic, it is something I am very passionate about and you can't have health of one without the other! The current statistics show that 1 in 2 women over the age of 50, and 1 in 4 men will experience a fracture due to osteoporosis, with 25% o

I love travelling and feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to do so. However, one of the downsides about moving to the other side of the world is that you do spend a lot of time in transit just to get home for a visit. Over the last month and a bit, I have done a ridiculous amount of flying (for educational courses, home visits and fun), spending about 45hrs in the air (between Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Sydney, Dallas and Austin) and a whole b

Today's post is slightly different to most of the others. I've never written a book review before (outside of primary school), however I just had to share this particular one with you. Recently I was lucky enough to get my own copy of... Alignment Matters by Katy Bowman! My first impression was: Oh my gosh this woman is smart! If you've never heard of her, Katy Bowman is a biomechanist from the USA and teaches thousands of people easy ways to look after their body and keep it