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Kegel Exercise Weights are easy to use and they offer several advantages over other weight sets: 1) they require no assembly or reassembly when you want to increase or decrease the weight you exercise with. 2) there are six weights – more than in any other vaginal weight set on the market. 3) Pelvic Floor Exercise Weights have a large weight range (20 to 95 grams), which is important since most women like to exercise with lower weights in the evening when the pelvic floor is tired. You should expect this training program to take 1-2 months of consistent participation to achieve significant results which may include reduced urine leakage and improved sexual pleasure. Please remember to discuss issues of incontinence with your physical therapist at Renew PT before beginning a training program with Kegel Exercise Weights. Some forms of incontinence may not be improved by strengthening your pelvic floor muscles.

Foam Rollers are great for balance exercises, stability exercises, strength training, home exercise, stress reduction, and triggerpoint and myfascial release. Rollers can be used effectively in many positions – supine, prone, sitting, kneeling, lying on your side, or standing. We recommend all of our patients start rolling their pain away immediately once their conditions are less acute.

Check out some basic exercises with the foam roller here. There is also an amazing foam roller workout found in Isa Herrera’s GREAT book Ending Female Pain, A Woman’s Manual

The Theracane is a great tool we recommend for our patients for use on painful muscular spots, which are also known as triggerpoints. These spots anywhere on the body, including shoulders, groin, gluteals, forearms, etc.

How To Use:

• Place knob of the Theracane on the painful muscular spot (triggerpoint)
• Gently press knob of the Theracane into your triggerpoint, keeping the pressure constant and consistent for 90 secs
• Repeat as necessary until pain has significantly decreased.

The Squatty Potty helps you to eliminate faster and more complete by putting your body into a natural squatting position over your own toilet. Using the Squatty Potty during elimination will un-kink your rectum taking your body from a continent mode to an elimination mode. This will speed up the elimination process therefore reducing the risk of toxic build up of fecal matter left in your colon. Using the squatty potty for elimination will reduce straining and decreases the pressure in the anal and rectal veins. The reduction of straining will help to heal and prevent hemorrhoids. It will also reduce the risk of bowel herniation and other damage to the lower digestive tract.

The Stick FootWheel is an essential tool for our patients to utilize at home for those who are suffereing from foot pain, or who are recovering from foot surgery. This device helps to soothe tired, achy, and painful feet, and helps to release triggerpoints and muscle spasms in the muscles of the bottom of the feet. A great tool for those suffering from plantar fascitis.

How To Use:

• Can be used anytime of the day, especially at work
• Gently roll the bottom of the foot for up to 10 minutes at a time. For especially painful spots apply constant pressure to the spot for 90 secs until the pain subsides. Repeat as necessary.
• If you are able, apply ice to the bottom of the foot for 10 minutes after rolling. Make sure the ice is wrapped in a towel or t-shirt to prevent buring the skin.

How To Use:

• Place either foot into the ProStretch and flex the foot upwards until a stretch is felt in your calf muscles. You may have to brace yourself against the wall or doorway.
• You can do this stretch with the leg straight or with the knee slightly bent to target different fibers in your calf muscles and tendons.
• Hold this stretch for 30 seconds and repeat 1-3 times. Do this stretch on your own at home or at work 1-3 times daily.

The Still Point Inducer is an essential tool to relieve neck and shoulder pain. Once you start using this great little device you will begin to feel a sense of relief as your body lets go and begins to correct its own muscle imbalances and spasms.

Benefits Include:

• – Helps relieve headaches and migraines
• – Eases chronic musculoskeletal pain
• – Enhances immune system efficiency
• – Facilitates your body’s self-correcting abilities
• – Provides deep relaxation and helps reduce stress

The Stick is an innovative device used by runners and other athletes to segmentally compress and stretch muscle, and is highly effective in the treatment of muscle pain and trigger points, as well as for preventative purposes. This small model is a compact 17-inches in length, with eight therapeutic spindles to address most muscle groups with ease, and has recently been popularized by the USA Cycling Team for use on lower limbs.

Benefits of The Stick:

• – Dramatically improve strength, flexibility, and endurance
• – Rapidly prepare muscles for physical activity
• – Disperse the effects of lactic acid following activity
• – Accelerate muscle recovery

The Deluxe Crystal Wand is must have for patients suffering from chronic pelvic pain. This device helps men and women take control of their pain. With proper instruction from a physical therapist trained in pelvic floor conditions, this tool puts the power in the patient’s hands, allowing you to reach deep pelvic floor muscles.

How to Use:

• For proper use of this device, make sure you are adequately trained by a physical therapist who is trained specifically in pelvic floor muscle conditions.

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Quite possibly every female over the age of 12 will find this huge book enlightening, pain saving, and perhaps even lifesaving. Northrup is a gynecologist who acknowledges the power of natural therapies and herbs, but also maintains that allopathic treatments, including surgery, are sometimes best. In Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many physical concerns–among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, depression, childbirth, abortion, cystitis, and menopause–explaining how many of these physical problems have roots in emotional upsets. Ending Female Pain by Isa Herrera is mentioned as a resource in this newly updated women’s health bible.

This amazing book is a must read for all people who believe in the power of mind-body medicine and how it can be a successful component in your healing process. Click here for an exerpt from Shakti Gawain’s groundbreaking work, originally published in the 1970’s. I recommend all my patients get a copy of this book. More Info…

• Daily meditations to change your brain patterns
• Visualizations that help you connect with universal energy present in each person
• Great explanations about how powerful our thought patterns an be

Though we talk about wanting to “age gracefully,” the truth is that when it comes to getting older, we’re programmed to dread an inevitable decline: in our health, our looks, our sexual relationships, even the pleasure we take in living life. But as Christiane Northrup, M.D., shows us in this profoundly empowering book, we have it in us to make growing older an entirely different experience, both for our bodies and for our souls.

In chapters that blend personal stories and practical exercises with the latest research on health and aging, Dr. Northrup lays out the principles of ageless living, from rejecting processed foods to releasing stuck emotions, from embracing our sensuality to connecting deeply with our Divine Source. Explaining that the state of our health is dictated far more by our beliefs than by our biology, she works to shift our perceptions about getting older and show us what we are entitled to expect from our later years—no matter what our culture tries to teach us to the contrary