According to Ilene Wong, M.D., “Studies have shown that up to 80% of intersex patients have changed their care based on discomfort with their medical providers.”¹ That is a lot of patients. As healthcare providers, we should strive to avoid contributing to that patient discomfort and trauma. Providing intersex-affirming, trauma-informed, and inclusive care can help. Below are just three ways to educate yourselves and provide better care to patients who are Intersex.

1. Educate Yourselves

Following Intersex activists and organizations on social media and sharing their stories can be a great way to learn from Intersex folx. Reading books and memoirs, and watching movies or videos by Intersex folx about their lived experiences, is another way to educate yourself.^{2, 3, 4, 5}

2. Provide Trauma-Informed Care

Some patients may have a history of trauma. There are many different ways trauma can manifest in a person. Identify the different signs of trauma a patient may have, and seek to prevent re-traumatizing patients.⁶

3. Recommend Peer Support Groups

Meeting other Intersex folks with similar lived experiences can empower patients, foster community, and build connections. Recommending patients and their families to peer support groups can be a great way to promote these things.^{6, 7}

Learn More With Molly

Want to learn more ways to provide intersex-affirming healthcare and learn how to be an ally to patients who are Intersex? Molly’s remote course takes you deeper into the genetics, history, variations, and clinical care that help you support Intersex patients with skill and compassion.

Resources

1. Lambda Legal & interACT. (2018, July 20). Intersex-Affirming Hospital Policy Guide: Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to Intersex Patients. lambdalegal.org
2. Lindhal, H. (2018, June 2). We Need to End Intersex Erasure in Queer Communities. Them. them.us
3. National Health Service England. (Accessed 2026, June 21). How to be an Intersex Ally. NHS Health Education England. madeinheene.hee.nhs.uk
4. Lindhal, H., Brown-King, B., Wall, S.S., & Pagonis, P. (Accessed 2026, June 21). 26 Ways Allies Can Support Intersex Awareness Day on Oct 26. interACT. interactadvocates.org
5. Intersex Human Rights Australia, Intersex Peer Support Australia, & National LGBTI Health Alliance. (Accessed 2026, June 21). Raising the Bar: How to Be An Intersex Ally. Interaction. interaction.org.au
6. interACT. (Accessed 2026, June 21). What We Wish Our Doctors Knew Brochure. interactadvocates.org
7. National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center. (2020). Affirming Primary Care for Intersex People 2020. lgbtqiahealtheducation.org

When I first co-authored the course Neurologic Conditions and Pelvic Floor Rehab in 2018, the goal was ambitious: help pelvic health clinicians begin to confidently "think neuro." We focused on a deep dive into the pelvic health conditions in people with Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury. The course was offered in person and then Covid hit in 2020 putting a long pause on general neuro topics. As the stand-alone Parkinson disease and Pelvic Rehabilitation remote on-line live learning course continues to be offered by Herman and Wallace, there have been on-going requests to broaden the neuro course offerings line-up. We are very excited to announce a neuro expert, collaborative effort with the launching of Neurologic Conditions and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation at the end of June 2026.

There can be a sense of hesitation and uncertainty when a new patient on our schedule has a neurological diagnosis. We may not be confident of where to even begin. Our patients that have been given a neuro diagnosis likely have multiple other comorbidities, are being followed by multiple specialty physicians, and are on many different pharmaceuticals to manage their condition. These patients often present with complex, fluctuating, frequently overlapping symptoms that don't always fit consistently and neatly into traditional evaluation and treatment planning. These patients have often seen multiple therapy providers trying to get help and needing to be understood through a neuro lens.

This course is designed to get you thinking about neuroanatomy and physiology from the ground up and expand on neurologic diagnoses across the lifespan, from pediatrics to adults; from traumatic neurologic injury (such as stroke) to neurodegeneration (such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), transient neurologic conditions (such as Lyme disease) to autonomic nervous system dysfunction (such as POTS), and from neurodiversity (such as autism) to pediatric congenital defects (such as cerebral palsy). Our goal is to offer a practical framework you can carry into any pelvic health neurologic evaluation, so when a complex patient walks into your clinic, you feel confident in your clinical reasoning rather than limited by the diagnosis. Instead, we hope you will feel equipped to ask better questions, see patterns others might have otherwise missed, and develop treatment plans that accurately address the neurologic contributions to pelvic function. We also look to strengthen your clinical reasoning and problem-solving ability to adapt and pivot your treatment approaches when patient outcomes do not progress as you intend or expect.

If you've ever felt like, "I have a neuro patient on my schedule tomorrow and I don't even know where to start", "I know there's a neuro component here, but I'm not sure how to assess it" or "This patient doesn't fit the usual presentation", then this course was designed for you. We hope to help you "think neuro" in ways you have not thought about before, refine your assessment and treatment planning with your "neuro brain", and confidently expand into your role as a neuro-informed pelvic health clinician.

Conversations about menopause have moved from a taboo subject into the mainstream, and patients are arriving with more questions than ever. Yet many clinicians were never taught how the menopause transition reshapes the body, or how much of that change lands squarely within the scope of pelvic rehabilitation. This webinar is designed to close that gap. In one focused session, Christine Stewart, PT, CMPT, lays out the essentials so pelvic therapists can recognize what is happening, validate what their patients are feeling, and respond with confidence.

What the webinar covers

Christine introduces the full arc of the menopause transition, from perimenopause through postmenopause, and the shifting hormonal profile that drives it. You will get a clear overview of the symptoms patients commonly report, including genitourinary changes, vaginal and tissue health, pelvic floor and sexual function, musculoskeletal complaints, sleep disruption, mood, and long term concerns such as bone density. Throughout, the focus stays practical, connecting each change to the role a pelvic therapist can play in education, treatment, and reassurance.

Who should attend

This introduction is built for pelvic therapists and pelvic health clinicians who want a solid foundation in menopause care. Whether you are early in your pelvic rehab journey or experienced and looking to fold menopause more intentionally into your practice, you will leave with a framework you can use right away with the patients in front of you.

Why menopause belongs in pelvic rehab

In a survey of postgraduate trainees in internal medicine, family medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology, ninety percent felt unprepared to manage patients experiencing menopause (Reid, 2021). That gap is exactly where pelvic health providers can step in. By calming patients' fears through education, and by treating the pelvic, sexual, and musculoskeletal symptoms within our reach, we can ease the burden of this period of adaptation and help patients flourish through a critical phase of life.

Endometriosis is one of the most common and most misunderstood conditions in pelvic health. It can drive chronic pelvic pain, painful periods, bowel and bladder symptoms, fatigue, and pain with intimacy, and on average it takes years for a patient to receive an accurate diagnosis. For the clinicians who treat them, the question is rarely whether to help, but how to help more completely.

Medical management, surgery, and pelvic rehabilitation are all important parts of care. Alongside them, a growing body of attention is turning toward the daily habits that shape how a person living with endometriosis actually feels day to day.

Why Lifestyle Matters in Endometriosis

Endometriosis is an inflammatory condition, and many of the factors that influence inflammation, pain sensitivity, and overall wellbeing are tied to lifestyle. Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress regulation, and nervous system care all interact with how symptoms are experienced. None of these replace medical treatment, but used thoughtfully and individualized to each patient, they can become meaningful supports within a comprehensive plan of care.

For clinicians, the opportunity is to move beyond treating symptoms in isolation and instead help patients understand the levers they can influence themselves, building agency and self-efficacy along the way.

What This Free Webinar Covers

In this session, Allison will walk clinicians through the lifestyle factors most relevant to patients living with endometriosis and how to introduce them in a way that is practical, evidence-informed, and patient-centered. Whether you specialize in pelvic health or simply want to support these patients more effectively, you will leave with strategies you can share right away. Bring your questions for the live discussion.

Last month I was invited to give a talk at the Michigan APTA Student Conclave, and I gave myself a challenge before I walked into that lecture hall.

Pelvic health is my jam. Talk to me about it at a dinner party, at a conference, on a podcast, and I will not stop. But education has changed since I was in school. My version of learning was lecture, test, repeat. My college daughters describe classrooms that look almost nothing like that, and frankly, theirs sound more interesting. So I did not want to lecture these students. I wanted to give them an experience with their own pelvic floors. Could I pull that off in a way that was both fun and meaningful? That was the assignment I gave myself.

The talk was called “Explore Your Floor: What You May Not Have Learned in School About the Land Down Under.”

Walking Into the Room

The first thing that struck me was the diversity. Pelvic health desperately needs practitioners of every gender and orientation to meet the needs of the patients who depend on us, and seeing that room felt like a real preview of where the profession is heading.

I told the group up front what I wanted the next hour to feel like: safe, inclusive, humble, educational, fun, and a little inspiring. Because we need more people in this field. Participation was voluntary throughout. Questions were welcome.

A Tour of the Layers

We started with a tour of the layers of the pelvic floor. Students stood up and used their bodies to act out the individual muscles and feel their unique functions. From there, we moved into biofeedback work where each student could discover the range of motion of their own pelvic floor.

Breath, Pressure, and the Body’s Truth

Next came pressure regulation. I wanted them to experience the relationship between breath, abdominal wall tension, and pelvic floor function, so we did it with a balloon. Everyone blew one up and we watched several different patterns emerge in how people accomplished that simple task. The lesson was right there in the room.

For the last physical activity, everyone stood up and tried to push each other over under three conditions: relaxed bodies, holding breath and bracing, exhaling and bracing. Most students felt most stable holding their breath. That gave us a really meaningful conversation about internal pressure and the way it finds its path to the places of least resistance. Hernia. Prolapse. Diastasis. Disc herniation. The body always tells the truth about where the load is going.

The Detective Work of Pelvic Health

The rest of our hour explored the relationships between the pelvic floor and the visceral, musculoskeletal, endocrine, and nervous systems, and how a pelvic floor physical therapist uses those relationships to shape the rehab experience for every patient.

I talked about the role and responsibility of the pelvic health specialist and shared snippets from real case studies. Two patients can show up with the same complaint, whether stress urinary incontinence, constipation, or pelvic pain, and have completely different reasons behind it. Our job is to be detectives. The presentation is never the diagnosis. The patient is.

I had a blast. The mission felt accomplished. And the students seemed to have a great time learning.

A Message That Stayed With Me

A few days later, a student sent me a note that I have not stopped thinking about:

“I am one of the many male students inspired by your pelvic floor presentation at the APTA Student Conclave. After walking out of your conference, I felt a responsibility to advocate for pelvic floor health for everyone. I find pelvic floor therapy truly fascinating.”

I could not agree more.

If you are a student reading this, or a clinician on the fence about pursuing pelvic health, I want you to know that this field needs you. All of you. Every background, every identity, every clinical curiosity. There has never been a better time to bring your full self to this work.

Experience It for Yourself: Free Live Webinar

Curious what it feels like to truly explore your floor? Jenna is bringing this same session to a free live webinar open to clinicians and students everywhere. Come ready to participate, bring your questions, and discover what you may not have learned in school about the land down under.

Pelvic health symptoms rarely exist in isolation. A patient may present with urinary urgency, pelvic pain, constipation, or prolapse symptoms, but beneath the surface there is often another layer: fear, stress, bracing, hypervigilance, and a nervous system that has been living in high alert for far too long.

As pelvic rehabilitation providers, we are trained to assess muscles, fascia, posture, breathing, pressure management, and functional movement. Yet many of our patients also need tools that help them feel safe in their bodies again. This is where acupressure becomes a valuable part of integrative pelvic health care.

Acupressure is a noninvasive, self-applied technique rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine that uses manual pressure on specific points of the body. In pelvic rehabilitation, it may be used as an adjunct to support nervous system regulation, symptom self-management, and whole-person care — serving as a practical bridge between the body, the breath, and the nervous system.

Why Mental Health Belongs in the Conversation

The relationship between pelvic health and mental health is bidirectional. Stress and anxiety can increase pain sensitivity, alter breathing patterns, contribute to pelvic floor overactivity, and worsen symptom perception. Pelvic symptoms, in turn, can increase fear, distress, and loss of control. This is especially relevant in conditions such as chronic pelvic pain, urinary urgency, dysmenorrhea, constipation, and prolapse-related symptoms.

Integrative physical therapy offers a framework for this complexity, blending conventional rehabilitation with complementary strategies while emphasizing therapeutic presence, patient empowerment, and the interconnection of mind, body, and function.

Published Case Report: Rectal Prolapse

In a newly published case report in the Journal of Women's & Pelvic Health Physical Therapy, Rachna Mehta and co-author Becky Parr, PT, DPT, DHSc, OCS describe an integrative plan of care for a 71-year-old woman with chronic rectal prolapse, rectal pain, urinary urgency, and low back pain.

The patient's treatment plan combined pelvic floor muscle training, manual therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, bowel and bladder education, and acupressure. Two acupressure points were taught for post-bowel-movement symptom management, paired with the phrase: relax, release, let go.

Acupressure Points Used

The Role of the Clinician

Pelvic rehabilitation clinicians are uniquely positioned to care for patients whose symptoms are influenced by stress, fear, trauma, anxiety, sleep disruption, and nervous system dysregulation. Treatment strategies can include breathing and downregulation techniques, identification of pelvic floor guarding patterns, acupressure as a self-management tool, and integration of mindfulness into pelvic floor coordination.

Acupressure provides an accessible, noninvasive adjunct to support whole-person healing. When integrated with breathwork, pelvic floor muscle training, patient education, and compassionate clinical reasoning, it helps patients improve body awareness, enhance self-regulation, and develop greater confidence in symptom management.

Half the world's population experiences a menstrual cycle, yet social stigma, clinical discomfort, and gaps in provider training often leave patients without the information, tools, or permission they need to manage it well. Pelvic rehab clinicians frequently find themselves on the receiving end of questions no one else has been willing to answer. What is a normal period? Why does my cycle affect my pelvic floor symptoms so much? What products actually work, and how do I choose the right one? Is this amount of pain something I should just live with?

These are the questions Nicholas Gaffga, MD, MPH, FAAFP and Amy Meehan, PT, DPT, MTC set out to address when they built the Herman & Wallace remote course Menstruation and Pelvic Health. The course is designed for pelvic rehab providers who want to go beyond treating isolated symptoms and instead help patients reshape the menstrual experience itself through non-hormonal, non-prescription, and non-surgical interventions.

What the Course Covers

The curriculum is organized into four parts. Part 1, Cultural Aspects of the Menstrual Experience, examines how historical and cultural narratives shape the way menstruation is discussed, clinically managed, and personally experienced. Part 2, Menstrual Structures and Processes, covers the hormones, anatomy, and physiology of the cycle, including the HPO axis and the organs involved in preparing the uterus throughout each phase. Part 3, Menstrual Symptoms and Disorders, addresses dysmenorrhea, heavy bleeding, off-cycle spotting, emotional concerns, and vaginal discharge, along with common disorders including premenstrual disorders, endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, and fibroids. Part 4, Menstrual Interventions, focuses on holistic strategies clinicians can introduce in practice today.

The second edition of the course includes new interviews with expert pelvic floor practitioners Ramona Horton, Jenna Ross, and Beth Kemper, whose clinical experience adds depth to the discussion of how the menstrual cycle intersects with pelvic floor dysfunction across the lifespan. Provocative topics run throughout, including chronobiology, interoception, menstrual mindfulness, menstrual molimina, cultural milestones, prostaglandins and period symptoms, and what a normal period actually looks like.

Why It Matters for Pelvic Rehab

In the live remote session, Dr. Meehan demonstrates yoga and stretch poses tailored to different phases of the cycle, along with a detailed walkthrough of menstrual products from liners and tampons to cups, discs, period underwear, overnightwear, activewear, and swimwear. Participants learn to build a flow management plan with patients, identify when to refer for physician evaluation, and help patients develop an individual action plan to reduce negative symptoms and work with the natural rhythms of their cycle.

Past participants describe the course as one that changes how they practice. Clinicians leave with a deeper understanding of their patients' experience, a broader set of tools to offer in the clinic, and language that makes a historically taboo topic feel approachable in the treatment room.

Upcoming Dates

The next live remote session of Menstruation and Pelvic Health is May 9, 2026. Additional dates are offered throughout the year for clinicians who want to schedule the course alongside their summer and fall continuing education plans.

Register for the Course

Menstruation and Pelvic Health

Next Session: May 9, 2026

Remote Course via Zoom

Additional dates available throughout 2026

Register here: https://hermanwallace.com/continuing-education-courses/menstruation-and-pelvic-health

From Home Care to Pelvic Health: A Journey Guided by Faith, Mentorship, and Resilience

Sometimes the most meaningful career paths aren’t the ones we plan. For Herman & Wallace faculty member Carole High Gross, PT, MS, DPT, PRPC, the road to becoming a leader in pelvic health rehabilitation was shaped by unexpected challenges, pivotal relationships, and a willingness to trust the journey even when the destination wasn’t yet visible.

We recently sat down with Carole to talk about her career, her calling, and the work that drives her. What unfolded was one of the most compelling stories of resilience and purpose we’ve heard.

A Career Built on Breadth

Carole’s career in physical therapy spans more than three decades. After earning her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 1992, she worked across nearly every clinical setting imaginable: pediatrics, aquatics, outpatient orthopedics, inpatient rehab, contract work, and home care, which she loved most. She built a deep clinical foundation long before pelvic health was on her radar.

Then life intervened.

Carole was diagnosed with breast cancer, followed by a rare chronic leukemia called hairy cell leukemia. She also lives with CIDP, a neurological condition that significantly impacted her mobility. At one point, she was using a walker, a wheelchair, and a scooter for community outings. Clinical work, at least the way she’d always done it, was no longer an option.

But Carole’s response was characteristically forward-looking: her brain was still working, so she went back for her doctorate.

Getting Back Into the Swing of Things

When Carole enrolled in her Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Arcadia University, the same institution where she’d started her undergraduate education years earlier (she lovingly calls them her “bookend university”), the transition wasn’t easy. She recalls sitting on her bed, textbooks in hand, wondering why she was putting herself through it.

But she found a way to reframe the challenge. She hadn’t forgotten how to learn. She’d simply had a very long summer. That simple mindset shift became a guiding mantra. Every time Carole faces a challenge in her health, her career, or her education, she reminds herself that she’s just getting back into the swing of things.

Walking Through the Door

As Carole neared the end of her DPT, she knew she couldn’t return to home care. She felt pulled toward something but didn’t know what it was. She describes it as trusting a GPS where someone else can see the full route, but she can only see the next turn on the screen.

Then, in a matter of days, a series of small, seemingly random events changed the trajectory of her career.

A friend convinced her to stop by a retirement party. There, she bumped into Kathy Sumner, a PT she’d worked with 20 years earlier. Kathy invited Carole to visit a pelvic health clinic she ran with Janet Drake Whalen, who Carole now works alongside as a Lead Teaching Assistant at Herman & Wallace.

When Carole walked through the clinic door, the feeling was immediate and unmistakable. She was home.

Kathy and Janet became Carole’s mentors. Weekends of hands-on training. Patients brought in for teaching opportunities. Encouragement to pursue coursework. The small-room private practice setting turned out to be the perfect environment for someone navigating mobility challenges, a place where Carole could not only survive, but thrive.

The timing was ideal. Her DPT program required a semester-long research project on a topic of interest, and Carole channeled everything into developing her Belly After Baby program for postpartum women, with Kathy and Janet guiding her every step of the way.

Eating Disorders and Pelvic Health: A Critical Connection

Today, Carole is a Pelvic Clinical Rehabilitation Specialist at Jefferson Health Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, where she treats patients of all genders with pelvic, bowel, bladder, and abdominal concerns. She holds her Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC) and serves as both an instructor and Lead Teaching Assistant at Herman & Wallace.

Her course, Eating Disorders and Pelvic Health Rehabilitation: The Role of a Rehab Professional, fills a critical gap in pelvic health education. Individuals with eating disorders frequently present with the exact symptoms pelvic rehab professionals treat every day: constipation, bloating, abdominal pain, pelvic organ prolapse, urinary dysfunction, and pelvic pain. Yet the connection between eating disorders and pelvic health is often overlooked.

As Carole explains, pelvic health providers aren’t going to diagnose or treat eating disorders, but they absolutely can and should be asking the right questions. They can observe, support, refer, and provide manual and educational tools that make a real difference in someone’s recovery journey. Sometimes, a pelvic health clinician is the first provider to notice the signs and gently guide someone toward help.

The course has received outstanding reviews, with clinicians praising its depth and Carole’s ability to connect the bigger picture, the multidisciplinary web of providers that supports individuals with eating disorders, with the specific, actionable skills pelvic health professionals can bring to the table.

Research at the International Level

Beyond Herman & Wallace, Carole serves on the Pelvic Workgroup of the International Consortium on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders, facilitated by the Ehlers-Danlos Society. In 2024, the workgroup published a landmark paper in PLOS ONE, a multidisciplinary, multinational effort co-creating evidence-based clinical guidelines for the management of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery in individuals with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD).

The workgroup is currently finalizing a paper focused on pelvic health concerns in individuals with hEDS and HSD, with additional publications expected through 2026 and into 2027, including updates to diagnostic criteria and guidance across multiple clinical domains.

Carole is passionate about the screening role pelvic health professionals can play for hypermobility. As she describes it, asking just a few simple questions about a history of joint subluxations, dislocations, or being “super bendy” can start to connect dots that no one else has connected. Many individuals with hypermobility present with pelvic dysfunction, GI issues, chronic pain, skin changes, and temperature sensitivities. Pelvic health clinicians may be the first to notice that these seemingly unrelated issues share a common thread.

A Philosophy of Mentorship

One theme that runs through every chapter of Carole’s story is mentorship. She was mentored into pelvic health by Kathy and Janet. She was encouraged to take that first Pelvic Floor Level 1 course by people who believed in her when she wasn’t sure she believed in herself. And now, she pays it forward: mentoring new clinicians, serving as boots on the ground at satellite courses, and fostering the collaborative, family-like learning environment that she believes is the heart of what Herman & Wallace does best.

Her advice to clinicians who feel overwhelmed by the breadth of pelvic health education?

“Keep your focus on the step you’re on. Don’t look up at the full staircase. There’s no timeline. One course, one skill, one patient at a time, and before you know it, you’ll have built something incredible underneath you.”

About Carole

Carole High Gross, PT, MS, DPT, PRPC (she/her) earned her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Arcadia University in 2015 and her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 1992. She works as a Pelvic Clinical Rehabilitation Specialist at Jefferson Health Lehigh Valley and serves as a Lead Teaching Assistant and instructor at Herman & Wallace, where she created and teaches Eating Disorders and Pelvic Health Rehabilitation: The Role of a Rehab Professional. Carole is a member of the Pelvic Workgroup of the Ehlers-Danlos International Consortium and has a special interest in working with individuals living with eating disorders and hypermobility throughout the pregnancy and postpartum journey. She is a dedicated mentor for growing pelvic professionals and focuses on team building and program development.

Learn From Carole

Ready to explore the intersection of eating disorders and pelvic health rehabilitation? Carole’s course is designed to expand your clinical lens, build your confidence in screening and observation, and equip you with practical tools to support individuals with eating disorders on their recovery journey.

Eating Disorders and Pelvic Health Rehabilitation: The Role of a Rehab Professional

Remote Course | October 4–5, 2025 | Live via Zoom

Your patients deserve comprehensive care, and you deserve the knowledge to deliver it. Register today at hermanwallace.com. Spots are limited.

An interview with Frank Ciuba.

Frank Ciuba, co-instructor of Osteoporosis Management< alongside Deb Gulbrandson, explains that practitioners need the information provided in their course. "This course is the latest up-to-date research compiled by my partner Deb Gulbrandson and myself in the management of osteoporosis for clinicians." He shares that similar to learning about the pelvic floor, "when physical therapists go to school they get only a small amount of what osteoporosis is and very little on how to treat a patient."

Frank explains that he became interested in teaching osteoporosis management when he learned "that one in four men statistically will get osteoporosis or an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime and they're really not being identified." Osteoporosis Management provides an exercise-oriented approach to treating these patients and it covers specific tests for evaluation, appropriate safe exercises and dosing, basic nutrition, and ideas for marketing your osteoporosis program.

In pelvic health rehabilitation, it's seen that osteoporosis-related kyphosis (curvature of the spine) can affect pelvic organ prolapse, breathing, and digestion. Patients who go through the osteoporosis management program with Frank and Deb, are shown that they reduce the likelihood of compression fracture by 80%.

This course, Osteoporosis Management, is not just for practitioners working with osteoporosis or osteopenia patients. Frank lists the types of patients he's been able to help. "I've used this on high school backpack syndrome, whiplash injuries, adhesive capsulitis, spinal stenosis, low back pain, lumbar strain, even some hip pathologies." He concludes with "We just need to get the word out to more individuals that this a program that can help them. Not only in the short term, but in the long term. This is a program for life."