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Laurel Proulx: Pelvic Floor PT
The bare minimum that needs to be said. If you are The bare minimum that needs to be said. If you are white, cis gender and heteronormative, you have privilege. When someone calls out your privilege and you get defensive of your hard work you have a gross misunderstanding of privilege, hard work and success in this country. Understanding you have privilege is the bare minimum. Working to help others overcome obstacles put in place by systems of oppression is a next step. Changing systems is another step.
Birth injury, levator ani avulsion and prolapse ca Birth injury, levator ani avulsion and prolapse can really take postpartum people by surprise; feeling unprepared and devastated by what they find on google and then dismissed and minimized by overly positive healthcare providers or only offered surgery. Kimberley Johnson generously shared her experience with reconciling her athlete identity and the version of motherhood she had envisioned for herself with us on a story take over Monday, all stories have been saved in a highlight. I also had the chance to interview her on her path to resources and care, navigating her relationship, how her progression was slowed due to fear of movement and finding @Juliewiebept and her "let's try it" attitude helped her find her stride in testing her body. These quotes gave me chills as I interviewed her and the full interview is available for all Postpartum Connect members in the "Bonus" section. Please give @wildmatrescence a follow. She's using her story to also lift up other postpartum stories and is using her PhD to better prepare mental health professionals to help people with birth injury.
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Learning how to engage, coordinate and modulate yo Learning how to engage, coordinate and modulate your deep core (pelvic floor and transverse abdominis specifically) is pretty important in postpartum return to fitness and frankly can get many people over strength or performance plateaus.⁠ ⁠ These muscles support our organs, attach to our spine and allow more powerful athletic movement!⁠ ⁠ This is THE basic thing I teach with breathing in the beginning for everyone.⁠ ⁠ ➡️ But there are some common patterns that some people have gotten used to using when engaging their core: ⁠ swipe through to see those!⁠ ⁠ So that covers "engage" but what about coordinate and modulate.⁠ ⁠ 💫 Coordinate means can you get those muscles to work when you want to. These muscles should be able to "click" on before moving an arm, a leg or changes in pressure like landing or coughing. You may have to practice this over and over again before it becomes automatic.⁠ ⁠ 💫 Modulate means to be able to use these muscles just a little bit or a whole lot a bit based on the activity. You will need more tension from these muscles when max deadlifting then when rotating to swing a golf club.⁠ ⁠ Do any of these look familiar? Give it a shot and let me know how it's goes! As always this is not something we think about every rep or set while working out or participating in sport. This is something to "retrain" in practice and rehab, the goal is to become automatic.
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