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Introducing Our New Virtual Classroom!!
Durham Pelvic Health has a Virtual Classroom! Please ask us for previous recordings of the following webinars: Preparing For Birth - This on line seminar will provide education on how to prepare your pelvic floor and body for birth. Post Partum Recovery - This on...
What are 5 Options For Pelvic Organ Prolapse
What is pelvic organ prolapse (POP)? Pelvic organ prolapse is defined as a weakening in the connective tissue of the pelvic floor resulting in the descent of one, or more, of the following pelvic structures into the vagina: Bladder Rectum Small...
8 Reasons Sleep is Critical to our health
It’s Bedtime!! (Adapted from Dr. Sarah Ballantyne's Book Go To Bed) Welcome to our “Sleep Series”!! Getting adequate, quality sleep is SUCH an important topic to our entire health we can’t jam everything into one post. So we will be posting several...
12 Tips For a Better Sleep Tonight!
better sleep Welcome to our second article on sleep. In our first article we discussed the importance of sleep and in this one we will offer 12 tips to help you get a better sleep. Getting a good night's sleep seems so elusive sometimes doesn’t it? The...
Stop fractures with 3 tips that can help with Osteoporosis
What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue which leads to weak bones and increased risk of fractures. Bone deterioration can occur over a number of years without presenting any symptoms so it is often a...
What Does Stress, Worry and Anxiety Have To Do with Pelvic Pain?
Manage your stress and improve pelvic pain (adapted from an article in Best Health Magazine – Aug/Sept 2020) What’s the difference between worry, stress and anxiety anyways, and what does it have to do with pelvic pain? We often use these terms interchangeably but...
3 Natural Solutions for Pelvic Pain
#1. Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Physiotherapy treatments, such as pelvic floor rehabilitation and exercises, have been proven to treat a variety of conditions that cause pelvic pain. Some of the most common pelvic conditions that physiotherapy treats include:...
6 Key Strategies to Getting Relief From Constipation
Drink lots of water Not being able to go “poop” has to be one of the WORST feelings. We get it! That’s why we wanted to put together some information on strategies to help get some relief from constipation. MINDING YOUR STRESS HELPS WITH CONSTIPATION...
Relief for Pelvic Health Issues with Fibre
We’re all told we need to eat more fibre by our doctors, health care providers and even our mothers but how much do we actually need and what role does is play in our pelvic floor health? According to the government of Canada, Canadian women need 25 grams of fibre per...
The top 4 best pelvic floor exercises in 5 minutes a day or less.
"What are the best and fastest pelvic floor exercises I can do to strengthen my pelvic floor?" We often get asked this question by many busy women in our practice. I'm happy to tell you there are 4 of them and each one can be done in 5 minutes or less!! A bit of an...
Do I need a personal lubricant or moisturizer? (and what do bees and olives have to do with it?)
Pure Organic Beeswax While our great grandmothers would never have talked about this, we at Durham Pelvic Health, think that the topic of personal lubricants & moisturizers is an important one to talk about!! Many women silently deal with pain or discomfort...
Help for Urinary Incontinence
Help! I'm leaking!! We think it’s embarrassing… and we don’t like to talk about it, but urinary incontinence, (leaking) is more common than you think. The reality is that: -1 in 4 women -1 in 9 men -and 1 in 6 children suffer from some form of...
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18 Proven Stress Relief Strategies To Help You Heal
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