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Can Sex Cause Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy?

Being pregnant isn’t the end of sexual enjoyment with your spouse. But experiencing pain is scary, leading women to wonder: Can sex cause pelvic pain during pregnancy? Expecting a child is one of the most exciting times of your life, so here’s what to know if you experience discomfort or …

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Why Your Pelvic Floor Matters

The messages to stay healthy are many: watch what we eat, exercise regularly, get enough rest. Women have specific health requirements too, such as maintaining breast health and reproductive well-being. Missing from that list are important details about pelvic health. It’s necessary for women to understand why your pelvic floor …

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Sex Positions to Reduce Pelvic Pain

For most people, sex is an enjoyable and even necessary component of romantic intimacy and connection. Unfortunately, for many people, sex can also be painful—sometimes prohibitively so. Especially if a woman has chronic pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, endometriosis, or another pelvic floor dysfunction, she may feel like she needs …

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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy for Painful Sex

Painful sex is often confusing, overwhelming, stressful, and, for some women, quite crushing. It’s also quite common, affecting up to 20% of American women at some point in their lives. 1 Thankfully, there’s no reason to suffer in silence, because there are many ways to treat this condition—including physical therapy.  …

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Pelvic Pain During Sex - Causes & Treatment

If you experience pelvic pain during sex, you are not alone. For example, a recent study in Britain found that 7.5% of sexually active women report having had painful sex for over three years—and this number doesn’t fully account for women who may be avoiding sex because of pain. And …

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Yoga & The Pelvic Floor

If you’ve spent any amount of time exercising or even just reading women’s magazines, you’ve doubtlessly heard about how important it is to strengthen your ‘core’ – ie, your abs and low back. And there’s no doubt that strengthening your core is incredibly important for your posture and your overall …