August 31, 2019
PT Below the Waist Podcast with Jessica and Jamille This podcast was a lot of fun! Debunked movement and fitness restrictions we put on our pelvic health, ortho and sports medicine clients and sent empowering, hopeful, problem solving messages instead. Both to YOU, the practitioner, and to the fit and wanna be fit females we […]
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February 25, 2019
A short excerpt from Lori Forner about the podcast: Physiotherapist Julie Wiebe and I have a very candid conversation about how impact activities like double unders (skipping) and running influence the pelvic floor and how we may use what research we have, as well as our clinical minds, to address these biomechanics on dysfunction like […]
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January 16, 2019
Dear Julie, quick question! How should I breathe when I squat? A lot of my inquiries start this way. Quick questions don’t always have quick answers. Nor should they. Formula seekers….beware….this post is likely not for you. In any learning endeavor, we must understand basics first, lay a foundation. This gives us a language and […]
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August 13, 2018
The CrossFit Games have come and gone, but the conversations it stirs inside both rehab and fitness carry on! I had a conversation with CrossFit Headquarters last winter on all things pelvic health and pelvic health messaging inside their community (both female and male). The topics we covered are still relevant today as CrossFit pushes […]
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June 29, 2018
It’s that time of year again, time for a summer sabbatical for me from social media. My kids are off school, and I am very aware that I am running out of summers with them. I have done these in the past and in addition to being life giving…literally….they have also been important for me to […]
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June 12, 2018
Since June is Pelvic Organ Prolapse Awareness Month…Hallmark are you listening….I thought I’d share some #educatedhope to help ladies out who are getting their info from ye ole internet. I am all for more info, but so much of it has ultimately generated more fear vs help and healing. So I am officially declaring it […]
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April 24, 2018
Today, I am thrilled to share a guest blog from my teaching partner Susan Clinton linking voice to postural control and pelvic health. She and I worked together to develop an introductory online module to share concepts like these that we are happy to announce is now eligible for CEUs! Check it out…knowledge bombs await! […]
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December 22, 2017
Here it is…the full Twitter conversation with CrossFit HQ. I am simply posting this in its raw format, without commentary, so you can draw your own conclusions. A Twitter conversation is really challenging to have, follow and to present in a format that is easy to sort through. There are lots of twists and turns. […]
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December 8, 2017
Dear CrossFit HQ, I come in peace. I am hoping to open a respectful dialogue regarding pelvic health for female CrossFitters. I am actually an ally to CrossFit in the pelvic health arena….but you are making it hard to defend CrossFit when you promote videos like “Kelley Jackson Pee-R’s”. On the Facebook thread for the […]
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November 27, 2017
Q: Hey Julie! I find that now when I don’t think about engaging my pelvic floor with exertions at the gym, but still concentrate on good form that I experience very few pelvic organ prolapse symptoms. But when I overly focus on my breath/alignment/pelvic floor then I am more likely to feel symptoms. What gives? […]
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