Dr. Janelle Frederick

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Life Kit · If sex is painful, you have options · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

So this may actually include an internal pelvic floor muscle exam.

Um before they get to that internal, they'll look at your posture.

They may check your hip strength, they may look at your core muscles, um, they may look at your your sacrum and your low back.

So they'll be screening the muscles, the ligaments, the tissues that interact with your pelvic floor.

And then you may lay on a table very similar to how you do when you go to see an OBGYN.

So you'll get on a table, obviously they'll glove up a finger.

And this is all only with consent and it's with forewarning if you agree to it.

It is an internal pelvic floor muscle exam.

So they're actually assessing the muscles internally to see how do these muscles feel.

Um, do they feel

stiff or guarded or do they feel lax and loose?

Do they feel weak?

So they do the testing of strength.

Endurance, um, coordination.

Can you coordinate your pelvic floor contraction with your breath?

Do you know how to push out correctly, like for pooping or giving birth?

Um, and they'll be able to feel where your pain is coming from, essentially.

After that initial assessment, then we'll start thinking through intervention.

So we're going to use movement and exercises.

We call it therapeutic exercises.

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