(Image courtesy of Eva Margo Kant, LCSW-R) The National Institute of Health (NIH) defines chronic pain as pain lasting more than 3 months and it affects more than 100 million Americans today. As a pelvic floor physical therapist, I help patients with both acute and chronic pain, more specifically pelvic pain, on a daily basis.…
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EMH Physical Therapy Goes To Chicago for The International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) Conference on Chronic Pelvic Pain
At EMH Physical Therapy, we support an interdisciplinary approach to treating our patients. We are in constant communication with primary care physicians, urologists, psychologists, gynecologists and other healthcare providers to make sure all our patients have a strong team working for them. A team based approach to medical care has been shown to prevent medical errors (1), improve patient-centered outcomes and chronic…
Read MoreA Pelvic Physical Therapist’s Approach to PGAD: Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
What’s your first reaction to this image? Laugh? Sigh and Roll your eyes at the tasteless joke? Did you think: “How can anyone REALLY have this?” What if you were experiencing sexual arousal or multiple orgasms on a daily basis, for hours at a time, day or night, with no one medication or method to…
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