Your Wonderful Female Body - Pelvic Floor Health with Dr. Tanya Rowenhorst, Pt 1
Heaven In Your Home
Francie Winslow
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What is the pelvic floor? And what should you expect from a healthy, functioning pelvic floor? As your body changes with life, especially after childbirth, you may notice issues or problems like a leaky bladder, inability to jump without urgency and even uncomfortable, painful intercourse.
In this episode, Dr. Tanya Rowenhorst, will help give you more insight into your wonderful female body, especially in the area of a healthy pelvic floor. Tanya is a wife, mother of 5 and practices women’s health physical therapy through innovative and approachable services at Refine Physical Therapy.
About Tanya and Get Connected:
God has given Tanya a passion and heart for serving and speaking truth to women. She believes that each woman has been given a good body at every stage of life, and she desires to see women embrace who they were created to be and live life to the fullest. She attended Dordt College to get a B.A. in Exercise Science and a minor in psychology, and received her doctorate degree in physical therapy from the University of Iowa. Learn more about her approachable women’s health support on her website.
Dr. Tanya Rowenhorst, Website and Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Francie. Thanks so much for coming back to the Heaven in Your Home podcast. Today we have a special guest. I've been really wanting to have her on for months now. And it finally worked for us to connect. She is a mom of five. She lives on a farm, I believe in Ohio. Is that right? No, Iowa. Sorry, Iowa. And she's phenomenal. She is a physical therapist, |
| 0:24.5 | and she's also a pelvic floor specialist. So within the world of physical therapy, |
| 0:29.0 | she helps women who are pregnant, postpartum, even some who are older or younger, who need |
| 0:35.9 | to reintegrate and reconnect with their body and their health in their |
| 0:40.3 | female body. And so it fits right into the series we're doing the summer of your wonderful female body |
| 0:46.3 | because sometimes we have issues. Sometimes we have pain. Sometimes it's hard after a baby. |
| 0:50.3 | And so she answers all the questions in this on your pelvic floor health. |
| 0:55.3 | What is your pelvic floor? We get into kind of the what of being healthy as a woman and |
| 1:02.9 | how we talk about some exercises. I ask some of your questions. This is going to be a two-part |
| 1:07.6 | episode because we went for an hour. It was such a rich conversation |
| 1:11.2 | full of nuance and insight into both of our stories and our healing spiritually. As women, both of us |
| 1:18.5 | kind of grew up in the purity culture, but also as wanting to get healthy in a different way, |
| 1:24.9 | both physically and spiritually integrating muscle and integrating |
| 1:28.9 | world view and integrating our faith, like all of this integration and it's beautiful because |
| 1:33.9 | that's how God designed us. So I think you're going to really enjoy this conversation. She is |
| 1:39.3 | really wise and really relatable and I'm just so honored that she's here with us today. So enjoy part |
| 1:44.6 | one of our conversation. Friends, welcome to the Heaven in Your Home podcast. I am here with a good |
| 1:50.1 | friend from Instagram. We actually haven't been able to meet face to face, but we have a lot of |
| 1:54.9 | mutual friends. Dr. Tanya Rawhurst, thank you so much for being with us. She is, let us know your title and your |
| 2:03.5 | occupation, just so I get it all right. Yeah, no, that's great. Thanks so much for having me, |
| 2:07.8 | Francie. It's a huge honor. Yeah, so I am a doctor of physical therapy, and I live in Orange |
| 2:13.8 | City, Iowa, and I have a small little practice, private practice in my hometown. |
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