by Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT | Jun 17, 2016 | media, online publications, sex positions | Livestrong
The Best Sex Positions for Any Kind of Lover The popular health website Livestrong reached out to Heather Jeffcoat for her expertise in overcoming sexual pain and discomfort due to vaginsmus and other diagnoses. Penned by none other than August McLaughlin of the...
by Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT | Jan 27, 2016 | chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, prostatitis, vaginismus, vestibulitis, vestibulodynia, vulvodynia | Diagnoses
Common Sexual Dysfunctions and Treatments for Female, Male, Transgender and Gender Expansive Patients Vaginismus: Vaginismus definition: the involuntary muscle spasms involving the superficial pelvic floor muscles that typically cause painful entry, limiting or...
by Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT | Jan 27, 2016 | | Diagnoses
Male Pelvic Floor Issues and Treatments for Male Sexual Dysfunctions: Pelvic floor muscles are very important in the physiology of both male and female sexual response. Physical therapists play an important role in the multidisciplinary team when dealing with male...
by Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT | May 10, 2015 | cancer rehabilitation, chronic pain, pelvic floor physical therapy, pelvic pain, urinary incontinence, vaginismus | Blog
Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the best kept secrets in medicine. Recently, I was on a plane flight and sat next to two women. They were very chatty with one another and quickly swept me up into their conversation. Inevitably, in situations like this,...
by Heather Jeffcoat, PT, DPT | Sep 29, 2014 | blog post, dyspareunia, kegels, media, pelvic floor contraction, vestibulitis, vulvodynia | Blog
In my last post, “Why You Should Be Doing Kegels NOW”, I went over the various diagnoses that tend to benefit most from doing pelvic floor muscle exercises. However, there are MANY issues and diagnoses related to the pelvic floor that are NOT appropriate to prescribe...
