There are innumerable benefits to having a strong pelvic floor–from stronger urinary continence to better orgasms–and one of the ways to do that is through Kegel exercises, as we’ve definitely heard before. Just squeeze the same muscles you would as...
By Riva Preil Approximately 10% of water that exits the capillaries and enters the interstitial space at the arterial end of the capillary does NOT return at the venous end due to pressure related factors (refer to Starling’s Equation for more details). This...
By Riva Preil Individuals who have endured a spinal cord injury (SCI) often experience colorectal and anal sphincter dysfunction generally referred to as neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD). NBD includes constipation (in up to 80% of individuals), fecal incontinence...
Due to the cold and snowy winter we are having, with no end in sight, and rough traveling, especially for people with chronic pelvic pain, we are moving the NYC weekend retreat to the nice warm springtime, the weekend of May 31- June 1. Join us then, and take a look...
As Thanksgiving beckons, we wanted to send you off into the holiday weekend with some enlightening fun. Here, from Buzzfeed’s Carolyn Kylstra, is “29 Things Everyone With a Vagina Should Definitely Know.” We love the way Kylstra’s writing is...
By Amy Stein Wednesday night I was live on SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio at NYU Langone with Dr. Benjamin Brucker and Dr. Joseph Alukal primarily to discuss male pelvic pain. However we did also speak about female pelvic pain and dysfunction. It was in a radio studio...
