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Empowering Women through Pelvic Health Education
Diastasis and Diaphragms
Diastasis and Diaphragm Function Diastasis is a bit of a hot topic these days, regardless of whether you call it di ASS tasis or diaSTAYsis… I recently taught my new Perinatal Pelvic Rehab course in Northern Ireland, and I had the opportunity to hear my friend and...
Trauma Awareness in Women’s Health
(a version of this post originally appeared on hermanwallace.com) Given the week we've had, with heated debates about sexual assault in the news, I thought it was timely that I got to share this post and interview about trauma, trauma awareness, how stress and trauma...
Thoracic Thoughts
September is Menopause Awareness Month – so in this post, I wanted to take a look at the effects of Menopause on the Thoracic Spine – what do we need to know and what’s the good news? Often, when we think of back pain and menopause, we may wonder about lumbar spine...
September: BPS/IC, Menopause and Gynae Cancer
September means... Back to school and Increasing Awareness Somehow it is September again and all the talk is of going back to school – I must admit I am joining in this year, having enrolled in an advanced diploma in nutrition and health coaching – more of that to...
PCOS – what is it and what can we do to help?
Hello again! It's been a while since I've written - sorry! I had three trips to the US to teach in June (thanks NY, Chicago and Washington!) and then in July, I was whisked away by the fabulous Fiona Rogers of pelvicfloorexercise.com.au for my 3rd (!) Down Under...
Overactive Bladder? The #5C Approach
The #5C Strategy for Bladder Overactivity: An excerpt from ‘The Happy Healthy Bladder Workbook’ (coming soon!) © Michelle Lyons 2018 all rights reserved Do Not Reproduce Without Author’s Permission In pelvic health, we love abbreviations, especially when it...
Don’t hold your breath!
Breathing is amazing. We do it approximately 20,000 times a day, mostly without thinking about it. Our main muscle of respiration, the Diaphragm, interacts with our spine, our abdominal muscles and our pelvic floor, helping us manage to avoid back pain, contribute to...
Pelvic Pain Awareness Month
Did you know that May is Pelvic Pain Awareness month? That it's also Mental Health Awareness month? I'd like to think that the two are not unrelated as so many women and men go through tremendous psychological stress when dealing with persistent pelvic pain - from a...
Women Eating Well
Eating well has become...complicated. It seems like everyone's an expert (or at least telling you they are) Should we do intermittent fasting? (but in today's paper, there was an article stating it leads to pancreatic damage and insulin dysfunction. Ketogenic is...
what do rubber chickens have to do with women’s health?
Yesterday, I taught a class to a group of women in my local yoga studio about 'Women and Back Pain' - which was really also a class about bladder, bowel and prolapse, eating well, moving well, breathing, sleeping and stress management (there was also a section on...
#useyourglutes #notyourglottis!
I'm still somewhat in recovery mode after #WomanonFire2018 - what a weekend!!! Knowledge bombs, dancing and #professionalsisterhood were the order of the day! We're already in planning mode for #WomanOnFire2019...you have been warned!! Tickets sold out early for this...
Bone Health – Is Osteoporosis a ‘silent disease’?
Its Spring time in Ireland and the leaves are starting to bud on the trees again – I’m always amazed at the way trees can seem dormant through the winter but with the right amount of sunlight and increasing temperatures, they grow and regenerate new life. Which of...
Does breathing matter? (answer – yes!)
The American Lung Association have a slogan - 'If you can't breathe, nothing else matters' and I think that's true for so many aspects of women's health - brain, back pain, bladder and bowel function...even hot flashes and heart health!! Where is the Diaphragm and...
Women & Cancer & Sex
It’s St Valentine’s day this week – you may have noticed hearts and flowers everywhere you look and a general theme of love and romance. For many women going through cancer treatment, sex may be the last thing on their mind…or not! Women who are going through...
Women and Heart Health
It's February (how?!) which in Ireland is traditionally the start of Spring - there's a bright blue sky out there today, and the snowdrops are a galanthophile's delight this year. Lambs have been spotted in the fields and of course the next major holiday is St...
Does Weight Loss Help with Urinary Incontinence?
The new year is here and with it, lots of motivational posting about exercise and weight loss…but how is this desire for ‘new year, new you’ affecting peri-menopausal women with urinary dysfunction? It has been established that the lower urinary tract is sensitive to...
Is there a connection between bladder health and sexual health? (Yes!)
Perimenopausal pelvic health issues are, for many of us, some of the most common issues that we see in the women that we work with. Urinary incontinence is one of the most important issues for peri- and postmenopausal women. In Melville’s study (1) of U.S....
Do you know enough about Hysterectomies?
Do you work with women who have had a Hysterectomy? Do you understand the different types of Hysterectomy? Do you understand the short, medium and long term implications of Hysterectomy? Jenny Burrell and I sat down recently to discuss the different types of...