[FAMM Practitioner Series] FFP 438 | Supporting Pelvic Floor Health | Bladder Control, Uterine Prolapse, Painful Sex | Dr. Melissa Thompson, DPT
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode Melissa shares her experience in the FAMM program, and how it has impacted her physical therapy practice.
Dr. Melissa Thompson is a board-certified Doctor of Physical Therapy with a specialty certification in Manual Therapy, which is a tool for hands on treatment. She is also a pelvic health specialist with an advanced certification in Fertility Awareness (as a certified FAMM practitioner).
She helps women connect their menstrual cycle health to their pelvic health so they can heal pelvic pain, relieve bladder issues, and take charge of their fertility. She has established a holistic "birth center" style clinic from fertility all the way to postpartum. She starts with you as you are planning your family, and you become part of their family as you stay with the clinic through your whole journey into postpartum.
Melissa believes every person deserves a head-to-toe assessment for your pelvic and fertility concerns. Holistic health means that instead of looking at one body part, we look at the whole body to find all of the contributing factors to your problems. This creates lasting healing.
She earned her bachelor's degree at LSU, a master's degree in Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center. From there, and her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She currently practices in south Louisiana.
Today's episode is sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship program, class of 2023! Early-bird registration is officially open for next year's class of 2023. Will you be joining us? Click here to register now!
Topics discussed in today's episode:
- Why someone would end up in a pelvic floor therapy office
- What the standard approach is to pelvic floor therapy
- What is a kegel
- The benefits of visiting a pelvic PT when pregnant
- How to determine causes of pain with sex
- Why Melissa chose to bring Fertility Awareness into her practice and how it has influenced her work and clients
- The long term benefits of charting and how it is a feedback tool for Melissa's clients
- How Melissa's cycle has transformed since going through the FAMM program
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Resources mentioned:
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
Related podcasts & blog posts:
- FFP 423 | Mercier Therapy for Pelvic Pain and Infertility | Period Pain Replay Series | Dr. Jennifer Mercier, ND, PhD
- [On-Air Client Session] FFP 345 | Understanding Your Fifth Vital Sign | Lisa & Grace
- [On-Air Client Session] FFP 319 | Her Period Saved Her Life | The Fifth Vital Sign | Fertility Awareness For Birth Control | Lisa & Michelle
- FFP 315 | Clear Passage Abdominal Therapy For Pelvic Pain & Fertility | Larry & Belinda Wurn
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This episode is sponsored by FAMM! Are you a women's health practitioner looking for a solid way to incorporate comprehensive fertility awareness chart analysis into your practice? If yes, FAMM is the program you've been waiting for. Click here to apply now!
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, ladies, registration is now open for the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship Program, Class of 2023, and we start the first week of January. |
| 0:10.9 | If you are a women's health professional with an existing practice and you've struggled to incorporate fertility awareness cycle charting into your client work, this is the program you've been waiting for. |
| 0:21.5 | There's nothing like it offered anywhere. Transform your practice in nine months. We start the first week of |
| 0:27.1 | January 2023. Apply now at fertility friday.com slash fam live. That's fertility friday.com |
| 0:35.1 | slash f a m-m-l-I-V-E. |
| 0:38.6 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 438. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility |
| 0:54.4 | awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. I'm the author |
| 0:59.5 | of the fifth vital sign and the fertility awareness mastery charting workbook. I'm a certified |
| 1:04.1 | fertility awareness educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with over 20 years of |
| 1:08.7 | experience teaching women to connect to their fifth vital |
| 1:11.5 | sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormone health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle |
| 1:15.8 | without hormones. I have been consistently outspoken about hormonal birth control over the past |
| 1:21.9 | two decades and its impact on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know |
| 1:26.5 | how your body works |
| 1:27.5 | and how artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I teach women's health professionals |
| 1:32.1 | how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a vital sign in their practices, and I host live |
| 1:36.6 | coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility and health because it's important to have |
| 1:41.0 | healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you want to have babies. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys and a brand new baby girl. This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. |
| 1:54.6 | And I'm so excited that you're here with me today. |
| 2:08.0 | Today I'm sharing the first episode in this year's fan practitioner series. |
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