Sara Reardon
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first heard May 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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then read the pregnancy and birth and postpartum chapters. If I'm perimenopausal, read the menopause chapter, you know? So kind of go to what you need it for, but you're going to go through every stage of life as a woman and you may be pregnant and postpartum and then a couple of years later be perimenopausal, you know, or start having pain with sex and then you need to read the sex chapter. So,
I think actually when people read it, what I do is I tell you what's normal, how often should you be peeing, what should sex feel like, how do orgasms work, how to insert a tampon. I mean like everything from the basics of your body to how should you be peeing and pooping and lifting and breathing so that you don't cause an issue.
And then if you are experiencing an issue, what can you do at home to start helping with it? Like you can start these things right now. And you and I talk a lot about like, hey, it's just 10 minutes a couple of times a week. And I know some people are like, oh my gosh, I can't put another thing on my plate. But these are really small changes you can make.
Literally like just changing how you sit when you poop or changing how you breathe when you lift or how to relax your muscles to pee. And all of those small changes add up to make a very big difference with your body. And so they're not big life overhauls I'm asking you to make. It's really small changes, but you have to be consistent with them and it can go a really long way for you.
Right. Great point. Yeah.
No, in every state in the United States, you can go to a pelvic floor therapist without a referral from a physician. Sometimes insurance or the state requires you to have a physician's approval to continue. In Louisiana, we don't have that. You can absolutely just keep coming. But in every state, you can at least get an evaluation.
So if you're like, hey, I'm not sure I want to talk to my doctor yet, or I'm not even sure if there's a problem, you can find a clinic. go to Google, ask your friends, you know, there's, you can go on social media and literally type in like pelvic floor therapist near me or pelvic floor therapy, you know, Louisiana. And there's so many people who will pop up. So they're all over the place.
And I would even say like, go check out my blog because there's a ton of information on there, not just for women, but it's also just like, what is your pelvic floor? What's normal to pee? How should you poop? Like, sign, do you have a pelvic floor issue?
And so I think people can start going down these rabbit holes and then look around and actually you'll realize how many other people are seeking help as well, or there could be a clinic down the street. So I would say at least get an evaluation and see, and then you can always try some of the things that help.
You can get them from your therapist, you can do them from the book, whatever the case may be. You can do my online program. But I think that the biggest thing, and we talked about being proactive about health, is I'm like, you get one pelvic floor and you can't replace it.
If we know that it can lead to all of these dysfunctions, you have to proactively take care of it and recognize early when there's an issue. Because a lot of us will have back pain, hip pain, or pelvic floor problems. None of us are immune to these issues, but if you have them, then I would seek help sooner than later because they can be so easy to address and so easy to overcome.
We just don't talk about it, you know, but it's what I talk about all day. And so I know how common it is.
Correct. So, um, yes, I would say that There are 36 muscles that attach to the pelvis, your core, your glutes, your abs, your pelvic floor muscles, your low back muscles. So anything that is influencing one of those muscles can influence your pelvic floor. Literally, if you have a labral tear, if you have a bulging disc, if you have SI, just joint dysfunction, where sometimes there's
like a misalignment issue, if your pubic symphysis is separated or kind of misaligned, all of those things will change the alignment of your pelvis and therefore change the tension and tone in your pelvic floor. So that basket of muscles may be tighter and shorter on one side or longer and weaker on the other side.
And sometimes it's an injury or an episode that does something like say you had a back injury. But the other thing is also chronic postures and positions that we assume. So if you sleep a certain way or you always hold a baby on one hip and your right side is always short and tight or you've got weak hip muscles on one side because of an injury.
So all of those imbalances influence your pelvic floor. And so the way that we actually treat, it's not like we go straight to the vagina or anus. It's really like peeling layers of an onion. Like I look at your posture. I look at your back. Do you have surgery, scoliosis, abdominal scars, diastasis recti, a hernia, all of those things. I look at your glute strength, your hip mobility.
And then I work on those things and then help kind of get closer, peel that layer of the onion, get to the muscles and tissues and fascia externally, and then work internally. Because I could go in and release your pelvic floor muscles till the cows come home.
But if you have overactive glutes and a piriformis syndrome and a tight QL and, you know, rotation, then I'm like, I'm not going to get very far because those factors are still influencing your pelvic floor. So, and to your point about the core, it's like... I think again, we look at the outside core muscles, but we don't look at the deep core muscles.
We don't look at the pelvic floor and the transverse abs. And I'm like, we're putting walls on a house that doesn't even have a floor. Like you literally haven't built the foundation. So oftentimes- I think a lot of athletes that I work with get frustrated because I'm like, okay, let's just work on some heel slides or some leg marches. And they're like, God, this is so boring.
But I'm like, if you don't get the foundation, you can't, you're getting to that next level isn't serving you because you don't have that deep core engagement and support to support like super strong abs and upper body and thighs and all these things. So again, you kind of have to look outside and inside about what's going on.
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