In 2023 there are many more period products available on the market in the United States than there was ten years ago. Today’s blog is going to be discussing the variety of options for women who are menstruating, however I think another blog is warranted to discuss how much money we could spend on different […]

Welcome to today’s blog! The topic of conversation is going to abnormal periods or menstrual cycles. I really wanted to follow last week’s blog up with this one due to the fact that this is where a lot of young females live with significant pain and functional issues due to symptoms of their periods being […]

Women are blessed to have the unique ability to contribute to, grow and nurture, and then give birth to baby humans. As a pelvic floor health specialist, I work mainly with women during pregnancy and postpartum. However I feel like we get distracted from the process that allows us to even get to that point […]

April marked stress awareness month! Unfortunately, I wrote this blog on 4/23, but due to traveling to Europe it never made an April Publish date! However I felt like it was important to continue with this topic since stress has become a very prominent issue that many women suffer from. (practically all of us if […]

March is endometriosis awareness month so naturally the first blog is going to be another educational post on the condition of endometriosis. According to WHO, around 10% of all women and girls are diagnosed with endometriosis, and honestly this is probably an underestimate. In many countries, the general public and most front-line healthcare providers are […]

Pelvic health has gone from a taboo topic to a more widely accepted and marketed category of healthcare. The healthcare industry is so happy that there has been this mindset shift in the world, however it still is not as publicly recognized as needed. For example(s) it’s still not a standard of healthcare for women […]

Happy Monday my friend! In honor of February and Valentine’s Day we are going to be talking about a variety of pelvic floor dysfunction’s that can cause painful intercourse, otherwise known as dyspareunia. This is unfortunately common in our society, and it should be a direct referral to a pelvic floor physical therapist. However our […]

Welcome back to the Belle Blog! I hope you enjoyed last week’s piece over sexual health and wellness. There were many components to that topic, so it was really difficult to cover them all. Next week’s blog will be covering common pain dysfunctions that surround women’s sexual wellness. For this week, we’re just going to […]

Happy February! The month of love, romance, glamour, spoiling, wooing and all the things in-between! This month is one of my favorite months to discuss sexual wellbeing and health with my clients because it is normally on their minds anyway, which makes it less awkward to have a full blown discussion about. This is one […]

We are going to be discussing what are the best physical activities and practices that also help improve your pelvic floor health! This is going to vastly vary among people due to everyone has their own pelvic floor journey. As a physical therapist, and someone with an exercise physiology background, I am a strong advocate […]

Today’s blog is going to be an all encompassing discussion about bladder health. We will get a chance to answer those burning questions of:What’s urgency? How many times am I supposed to go to the bathroom?What does incontinence mean? You might be experiencing a bladder related pelvic floor dysfunction if you experience symptoms such as […]

We all love goal setting. Especially women! We love setting that goal or writing that To-Do list with the little boxes next to each task, just for us to have that satisfying moment of checking the box. However many times in January, as we all set our health, fitness, and financial goals for the year, […]

Hey mama, ready to learn some easy tricks to add glute and core strengthening to your weekly routine?  Yes, I know you are incredibly busy.  Even if you are not a mom yet, you’re likely still busy and feel like there is minimal time in your schedule to add another task to do.  So let’s […]

Hey mamas!  One of the most common injuries around Christmas is unfortunately back pain due to all the lifting we do.  If you think about it, a mother lifts a lot of things.  That’s a lot of lifting.  If you have kids you are likely dealing with any range of small to large toys… If […]

Happy December friends!  I hope all of you have been enjoying your Christmas season and are embracing the season of giving.   As November faded and December arrived, I was reminded that we are leaving the season of gratitude and entering the season of giving and rejoicing.   This is personally both my favorite and […]

Now that we have learned what the core is, and what happens to the core while the baby is growing (DRA). So if you have any questions about Diastasis, go check out this blog! Let’s cover intra-abdominal pressure and what role it plays with the core musculature. Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is the steady state pressure […]

This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the Uncaged Clinician’s Live Event 2022 in Denver, CO. First of all, it was an amazing and humbling experience. I cannot express how thankful I am for the Uncaged Clinician company for putting this event together. There were many fantastic speakers (I mean all of them […]

How Building a stronger core is not as complicated as everyone thinks.  You see, as we discussed in last week’s blog the core is made up of multiple parts: the diaphragm, the abdominals (TA), spine stabilizers, and your pelvic floor.  One of the most searched topics on Google is: “How to strengthen my core” and […]

The core has become a popular topic in the past year. Many women have so many questions about the core whether it’s just to strengthen it more effectively or rehabilitate it after childbirth. In order to understand how to strengthen the core, we must first understand what the core is, and why that’s important. The […]

Many women go through middle school and high school without ever knowing what ovaries actually are. Ovaries are small round shaped glands that are attached to the uterus via the fallopian tubes. Ovaries store eggs, which are what a female body releases during ovulation. If sperm is present to fertilize the egg, that’s how a […]

What you eat is the fuel you put into your body, and it can affect every aspect of your wellbeing!

Today is May 31, 2022. It’s the final day of Mental Awareness Month. On June 25th the Knoxville Chapter is hosting a fundraiser called “Climb Out the Darkness” sponsored by Postpartum Support Int. It’s their annual event to raise awareness for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, The Climb brings our community together to shine a […]

Mother’s day should be spent with your littles. It should be spent in happiness and joy in relationships with your family. I think for the majority – this is what Mother’s day looks like, this is what my mother’s day looked like.

Urinary incontinence is no fun. The percentage of the population, especially for women, is alarmingly high for urinary incontinence in the United States. Thankfully, research continues to make strides to help figure out risk factors, co-morbidities, and treatment techniques to help reduce this growing population. So what IS urinary incontinence? Picture the phrase: “Urinary Incontinence […]

The past two weeks have been filled with happy news of babies being born! However there was also an experience of a mother losing her baby after she was born… We alway hear the good news, or see the good side of things on social media. There is so many posts about pregnancy announcements, gender […]

Postpartum – from the Latin phrase post partum “after childbirth,” from post “after” + partum, accusative of partus “act of giving birth, childbirth. New moms are constantly searching for tips, tricks, and ways around the negative aspects of postpartum life. They google, search on Instagram, or even follow certain accounts on TikTok nowadays. It is […]

One of my favorite topics to discuss with patients or other healthcare practitioners is the process of pregnancy and the process of labor and delivery. So I think it would be great to begin an educational series on each of the trimesters during pregnancy, and then the phases of labor. Women, in most cases, would […]