Pelvic pain is something I treat frequently in my office. Pelvic pain can include: pain with sitting tailbone pain pain with sex pain with cycling or exercise Pelvic pain can happen to people of any gender. It is not isolated to women only. I treat plenty of men with pelvic pain, as well.   What Causes Pelvic Pain? Often pelvic pain is from tight pelvic floor muscles and one of the main treatments is to decrease the tightness of the pelvic floor muscles.   For these patients

Recharge Therapy is one of the only places in Long Beach, CA that offers prenatal massage where mom can lie on her stomach. We have a special cushion for the pregnancy massages so mom can lie comfortably on her stomach throughout her entire pregnancy. I hear from a lot of my clients how they went to a fancy spa or a wellknown massage place, maybe on a babymoon or for a special treat when they were pregnant, only to be disappointed by the massage. They often have to lie on the

Have you ever been on a long car ride and suddenly you have to pee, but there is no bathroom in sight for miles? Or maybe you are stuck in trafffic (I live in Southern California, so this is common) and you can't exit to get to a bathroom? What can you do in this scenario? This has happened to me a few times recently and what I noticed is that I'm usually anxious or stressed when it happens. What Helps Me With Bladder Urgency When I'm anxious or stressed, my stomach muscles

I get asked this quite often and my most common answer is: no. Unless you have a reason to do kegels, like you have bladder leakage or you have been to pelvic floor therapy and know you have weak pelvic floor muscles, otherwise you probably don't need to do kegels. A lot of birth educators, obstetricians, doulas and midwives recommend their clients to do kegels during pregnancy. I respect all these providers, but they are not experts on pelvic floor muscles. Therapists (PT or