Did you know that if you don’t extend your tail bone, your pelvic floor will never fire with optimal strength?  A tucked under tail bone takes our pelvic floor, which attaches at our tail bone and our pubic bone, and makes it slack.  And, over time, this loose muscle responds poorly and becomes weak because we are never able to fully activate all of the fibers because our two attachments sites are sitting too close together. 

If we extend our tail bone, giving it a slight lift, we put our pelvic floor muscles at the perfect length/tension ratio where it can … Continue Reading

Incontinence is not “just a normal part of aging”!  I don’t ever want to hear this again.  We don’t have to resign ourselves to wearing pads or Depends when our body decides to give out. All of us are constantly fighting the signs of aging, from wrinkles in our skin, to memory loss.  Some even focus on preventing muscle weakness which, as a physical therapist, is what I focus on every day when working with the aging population.  Muscle weakness affects our posture, our bone strength, our lung volume and, yes, our continence.

One of the biggest factors contributing to the … Continue Reading