Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why standard pelvic floor advice fails. Doing more Kegels can actually make things worse if you're activating wrong. She shares how an episiotomy scar caused her nine years of pain before she found what actually worked.
Nine years.
But I think this is a key piece that doesn't get talked about because as a woman, we address so many other areas of our body, but the pelvic floor gets ignored. Or again, you go to your OB GYN and she's like, we'll just do more Kegels. And like I've talked about before, that could actually be causing part of the problem because we're not correctly activating the pelvic floor. And that's why I'm all for like, you know, let's think outside the box, what else can be done and things like that. So I think this is such an important conversation because so many times, and I hear from women, like, their pelvic, it can be painful down there. I think that's a big. A big one, right? I don't know what your percentages of women you run into that do have pelvic floor pain, but I think it's more common than we would realize. And I know for me, with my first, I had an unnecessary episiotomy, and that took nine years for that scar tissue. Nine years.
