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What is Red Cord Physical and Occupational Therapy?

In Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy by Stephanie Prendergast / July 5, 2018

By Sarah Court, PT, DPT, e-RYT Traditionally, the thinking around how to approach low back and pelvic girdle pain has had a singular approach: find the ‘tight’ muscle and stretch it, and then find the ‘weak’ muscle and make it stronger. While it’s true that muscular tone imbalances can and do create […]

Brace yourselves: protecting your pelvic floor during CrossFit and loaded exercise

In Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy by Emily Tran / June 8, 2017

If you are a male and either currently participate in CrossFit workouts or another form of Olympic weightlifting, and have developed one or more of these symptoms: perineum pain with sitting, lower abdominal pain with intense activity or ejaculation, testicular pain that radiates to the abdomen or the vice versa, and urinary hesitancy with urgency […]