Postural Restoration & Pelvic Floor Therapy During Menopause with Hayley Kava PT, MPT, PRC (Episode 176)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s pelvic floor health is a whole lot more than doing Kegel exercises. In fact, sometimes Kegels are the last thing you need. This week we look at pelvic floor health through the lens of Postural Restoration with pelvic floor physical therapist and Postural Restoration Certified (PRC) practitioner Hayley Kava, who talks us through anatomical and structural issues that can contribute to leaking, aches and pains, and even propensity to injuries that become more common in the menopause transition.

Hayley Kava PT, MPT, PRC is a pelvic floor physical therapist and Postural Restoration® Certified (PRC) provider. A former collegiate athlete and sports medicine physical therapist, Hayley was shocked at the lack of integrative education, information and support for pelvic floor specific concerns when she became a mother in 2017. In 2018, Hayley started her pelvic floor education to complement her PRI training and in 2020, she started her own business working exclusively with people with pelvic floor disorders, taking an “outside in” approach to pelvic health. Her mission in this work is to ensure that no person feels alone in dealing with pelvic floor problems. You can learn more about her and her work at hayleykavapt.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.8	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.3	I hope you all are well.
0:35.4	So I have a really interesting discussion on tap this week.
0:39.8	It's about pelvic floor health and function, which we have covered a few times on the show over
0:45.1	the years. But this time, we're coming at it from yet another angle by incorporating the concepts
0:50.6	of postural restoration, which is a physical medicine practice that explores how our
0:56.2	natural asymmetries and our asymmetrical patterns influence our performance, risk for injury,
1:02.9	and general function of systems like our pelvic floor. In other words, if your pelvis is stuck
1:08.8	in an unhealthy movement pattern, your pelvic floor isn't
1:11.8	going to function properly, no matter how many kiggles or pelvic floor exercises you do.
1:17.7	I first heard about postural restoration through Dr. Peter Attia's podcast, The Drive, and his
1:24.5	New York Times bestselling book, Outlive that came out last year and has already sold well over a million copies.
1:31.1	He has a chapter in that book called The Gospel of Stability, where he has some really interesting shot of himself doing squats.
1:38.7	And you can see from the back, like how crooked he is, and he's got back problems.
1:42.3	And he goes into great detail and only the way
1:45.7	he can about breathing patterns and using the concepts of dynamic neuromuscular stabilization
1:51.7	and postural restoration to correct himself. So when I got an email from this week's guest,
1:58.5	Haley Kava, who is a pelvic floor physical therapist, along with
2:02.8	being trained in postural restoration. She's postural restoration certified. Wanting to talk
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