281 – The Voice – Pelvic Floor Connection – Sara Sohn DPT, PT, WCS and Ashley Michaelis MS, CCC-SLP

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Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What in the health does your pelvic floor have to do with your voice? More than one might think...

SLPs work from the diaphragm to the glottis, and pelvic health PTs work from the diaphragm to the pelvic floor. It would only make sense that we collaborate because, like every other part of the body, it truly is all connected.

Dr. Sara Sohn, pelvic floor PT, and Ashley Michaelis, voice SLP, have partnered together to bring their expertise and experience to Swallow Your Pride listeners and SLPs, and PTs everywhere. In this episode, this dynamic duo shares insights, clinical examples, and a collaborative approach that reveals just how connected the pelvic floor and voice really are.

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In this episode, you'll hear a discussion about:
*Interdisciplinary collaboration between a pelvic floor PT and an SLP
*Research in this area
*How the anatomy of the voice and pelvic floor are similar
*What questions to ask your patients to identify dysfunction in this connection

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Swallier Pride Podcast, we have Ashley Michaelis and Sarah Stone.
0:06.8	Ashley began her undergraduate degree in voice performance and music education at Case Western
0:11.6	Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
0:15.0	She encountered her own voice difficulties during her studies and as a result she found
0:19.1	the field of speech language pathology.
0:21.4	She then completed her graduate degree at the University of
0:23.6	Wyoming. She's worked in private practice, schools, outpatient rehab, in
0:27.4	patient rehab, acute care, and various multidisciplinary clinics. She has also
0:31.5	taught the voice disorders graduate level class at the University of Vermont. Her specialty areas are singing voice rehab, voice disorder, swallowing disorders, upper airway disorders, and neurogenic communication disorders.
0:44.0	And Ashley is joined by a colleague of her, Sarah Soan, she is a DPT.
0:49.0	Dr. Sarah is a board certified pelvic floor specialist.
0:53.6	She helps individuals overcome chronic pelvic pain.
0:57.4	Dr. Sarah has always had a special interest
0:59.5	in voice performance and using the voice
1:01.6	for pelvic floor rehab.
1:03.0	Additionally, she provides professional development programs to health care
1:06.4	professionals on sexual health and pelvic floor concerns.
1:10.8	And I hope you all enjoy this episode. This is a little snippet from we recently held the MedicelP summit
1:17.0	hosted by the Medicel P collective and the name of this year's summit was dynamic duo. So it was all about interdisciplinary teams. So we had an
1:25.2	SLP paired up with a different professional. So if you're interested in
1:29.1	checking out the dynamic duo summit you can still check it out at med SLP collective
1:33.4	dot com forward slash summit and access the recordingsallier Pride Podcast. I'm your host, Trisa Richard. I'm a board
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