Female Athlete’s Best Kept Secret

September 10, 2012

The athleticism at the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics was absolutely inspiring. I said “WOW” so many times I lost count. Some of the wows were for the stories of the athletes overcoming injuries or difficult circumstances to achieve their Olympic moment. Injuries got a lot of press this summer, and a LOT of tape. That […]

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Oh, Snap! Taking Aim at Poise

July 24, 2012

Poise is on my watch list. I have found some of their advertising messages to be very manipulative. Often the information they share offers women a pad as a solution for incontinence, indicating how “normal” and “no big deal” it is to have a few leaks. It’s never normal, people! While “normalizing” it may help […]

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Wait, My Pelvic Organs Can Do What?

June 1, 2012

  “I’m freaking out right now!” was the response of one of the women that attended a new mommy return to fitness workshop I gave a few weeks back. The topic had turned to pelvic organ prolapse and most of the attendees had not heard of it, or about it. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is […]

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