Category: General Physical Therapy

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The Pelvic Track App was mentioned in a research study that tested the effectiveness of using questionnaires via mobile application over paper. Click the link bellow to find out more: Correlation of Electronic (Web-Based and Smartphone) Administration of Measures of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: A Randomized Controlled Trial Jackowich, R., Mooney, K., Hecht, E., & Pukall…

Did you know that eating certain foods can enhance positive emotional reactions to daily life events, improve your overall mood and help you heal/deal with chronic pain/illnesses? The way you react to small/large life challenges and your mood is called “Affect”. One can have a tendency towards a Positive Affect or Negative Affect. Certain foods…

Physical therapists must look beyond the biomedical approach to rehabilitation and integrate pain education when treating patients with persistent sexual pain. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. An integrated biopsychosocial framework is important when approaching patients with…

So, your doctor prescribed you a pessary? What does that mean? A pessary is small device inserted into a woman’s vagina that helps with incontinence or prolapse. Pessaries are most commonly given to patients with uterine prolapses, which means your uterus sags into the vaginal canal. This prolapse can be caused by weak muscles or…

Pain or discomfort in your pelvic or abdomen region can feel extremely unfamiliar due to the nature and location of the issues. To complicate things a bit more, your doctors and specialists may want to perform certain testing to find the root of the problem. At first, some of these may seem intimidating, invasive or…