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You’ve stretched your hips. You’ve foam rolled your glutes. You’ve strengthened, rested, and maybe even had imaging. And the hip pain still lingers, or it keeps coming back when you ramp up training. Your hip pain and your pelvic floor may be apart of the same problem. Not always, but often enough that we check

You’ve trained through worse! A twinge on the stairs after leg day or a dull ache on mile three. A knee that hurts after a long weekend of pickleball, hiking, or chasing kids. So you ice it, skip a workout, and wait… Sometimes it settles. Often it comes back the moment you push again. Your

I have had two polar opposite birth experiences. One very natural, and one as medical as it gets. I’m so grateful to have had both experiences, as I think it helps me relate that much more to the moms that come see me as patients.  As a pelvic floor physical therapist, I thought I was

Many people organize their lives around their bladder: mapping bathrooms before leaving the house, skipping the second cup of coffee, or avoiding a jump on the trampoline with the kids. Because it’s so common, it’s easy to assume it’s just something you live with. It isn’t. Frequent trips, sudden urgency, and leaking are common, but

Some of the most common questions I hear in the clinic start with “how bad is this?” A joint pops, an X-ray report uses a scary phrase, or someone reads that they have “degenerative disc disease.” Suddenly a person who really is mostly fine is convinced they are going to need surgery tomorrow.  Pain deserves

Somewhere along the way, “it’s normal after having a baby” became the default answer to almost any postpartum symptom. Pain with sex, a heavy dragging feeling, leaking when you sneeze, pain sitting down weeks after delivery,  all of it gets waved off as just part of the deal. Common, yes. Something you have to live

“Should I get imaging first?” a very common question we hear before someone’s first visit. It feels logical. How can you treat something without a picture of what’s wrong? But for most musculoskeletal pain, the answer is no.  Understanding why can save you time, money, and sometimes unnecessary worry. Imaging shows structure, not pain. An

Shoulder pain during lifting almost always gets the same label: “it’s my rotator cuff.” Sometimes that’s right. But often it isn’t. Or, at least, it is only part of the story.  The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body, which means a lot of structures share the same small space and can produce

If you’re in a certain season of life and suddenly dealing with new leaks, urgency, dryness, or a pelvic floor that just doesn’t feel like it used to, you’re not alone. This is one of the most common conversations in the clinic. Perimenopause is the transitional window leading up to menopause, and it can last

“I figured I should just rest it until it feels better.” I understand the logic. If something hurts, the instinct is to stop moving it. But when it comes to arthritis, that instinct is often exactly backwards. As a PT who works from a performance-based lens,  meaning I’m always asking “what is this joint capable