One thing I hear alllllll the time, whether I am in the clinic or out at one of my kid's sports games is, "Oh I pee my pants when I do _____________". When I hear it, it sounds like it's totally normal to pee your pants with that activity. But it's not. ​It is not normal; it is common. ​ Two majorly different things. In reality, it is common that people pee their pants with certain activities like: -running/ jogging, -jumping/ hopping -carrying -lifting -coughing -sneezing etc It is common because a lot of us are doing the activity wrong. I was at Burn Boot Camp this morning and felt the urge ..read more

Bladder Leakage is like an Injury It's your body's way of telling you something. Imagine…you are in the gym working hard and you pee your pants. It catches you off guard because you are feeling amazing working out. But when you pee your pants, you feel defeated. Embarrassed. Just like when you injure a muscle in your body, time helps to heal tissue. It typically doesn’t get better after one day of changing something or doing something new. You might rehab the tissue with exercises or physical therapy. You might have to modify exercises to keep moving your body. You may have to change things u ..read more

Did you know inside Empower Your Pelvis...there is so much more? It has grown to be a space where you can come and fill all aspects of your cup: mental health, lactation, lymphatic work, peds PT and OT and a natural path doc who also specializes in acupuncture!! Empower Your Pelvis still specializes in pelvic health but now we have additional help where it is needed. Let me introduce you to some of my favorite women: Sarah Hartenberger, IBCLC -She is the owner of Nurture Lactation. They see moms and families who need help with infant feeding, regardless of if its formula or breast milk, but ..read more

How To Care For Your C-Section Scar: A Comprehensive Guide to Postpartum Healing Embracing the journey of motherhood often involves learning to handle the aftermath of a C-section, where incision scars become a part of the experience. This blog post aims to empower mothers with the knowledge and tools necessary for optimal healing, ensuring a more comfortable and confident postpartum recovery. Section 1: Immediate Care For Your C-section Scar Caring for your C-section scar begins with addressing inflammation and preventing scar tissue build-up. To achieve this, regular icing of the incision is ..read more

Going Cash Based Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Empower Your Pelvis will be out of network with Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) come November 1, 2023. If you wish to cancel upcoming appointments with our group, please let us know as soon as possible. We have patients who would like to get in by the end of the year if possible. We do have packages and self pay discounts available. If you leave a positive review on Google, we will give you a $5 discount for a self pay visit. You can leave as many positive reviews as you would like for continued discounts. Empower Your Pelvis has lots of online reso ..read more

Everyone Poops ? Favorite Pooping Recipe from a pelvic floor physical therapists by Amanda Fisher, a pelvic floor physical therapist in Kansas City. I had the privilege of working with the amazing Amy Slater in the summer of 2021 to help me figure out how to regulate my hormones. One of the number one things she had mentioned to me with helping to regulate my hormones, was having regular bowel movements. Each time you poop, you are pooping out excess hormones, like estrogen. The longer poop (toxins) stay in our system (decrease in bowel movements), the higher levels we can have. Made sense to ..read more

Top 3 Mistakes with Lifting A blog post written by Dr. Alyssa at Empower Your Pelvis-a pelvic floor physical therapy clinic in Kansas City. Ribs stacked over the pelvis Whether you are a weight lifter, a person who frequently does yardwork, or a new mom with a baby, we are all lifting to some capacity each day. We all stand up from chairs, lift our groceries/bags of mulch/babies and transfer them to various surfaces. Therefore, we all are lifting each day! It is important for our bone health and overall mobility to be able to do these things regularly but there are some common things I see go ..read more

Don’t let your bladder fall out! “3 Tips to avoid prolapse! was written by Dr. Marin Cole, DPT, a Physical Therapist at Empower Your Pelvis in Kansas City Pelvic organ prolapse is when your bladder or uterus start bulging into the vaginal area and create symptoms of pressure or heaviness. Patients who have prolapse often report these symptoms but some do also complain of vaginal or pelvic pain and bladder or bowel symptoms such as urgency, incomplete emptying, or incontinence. Oftentimes our patients with prolapse have been referred to us by a urogynecologist or OBGYN who recommend starting wi ..read more

How to Really Get Lucky this March By Heather Evans Ah, March. It’s the time of spring showers, tulips, March Madness, and a whole lot of green. That’s right, it’s when people drink green beer and kids hunt for leprechauns. Shamrocks abound, and many people hope to “get lucky” in terms of more than just rainbows and pots of gold. So if this is you, we wanted to share some advice on how you can really get lucky this year by improving intimacy with your partner. GOOD LUBE: Lube is great, and not all are created equal. Lube is essential for anyone who is pregnant, breast feeding, or past menopa ..read more

Functional Dry Needling Amanda and I (Morgan) went to Columbia, Missouri (M-I-Z!) a few weekends ago to get certified in functional dry needling. It is a service that we have wanted to add to the clinic for some time now. We have heard of other professionals having great results and wanted to be able to offer that our lovely patients! We spent the weekend practicing how to dry needle each other in the classroom but also explored our old stomping grounds on breaks to reminisce on the good ole’ Mizzou days! The dry needling course was packed with an abundance of information and we were so excit ..read more