McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Transform Your Life Mastering Pelvic Floor Health

12 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube presentation (by McCall McPherson) advocating pelvic floor education and physical therapy. The speaker argues that teaching pelvic floor exercises earlier in life and routine pelvic-floor-focused care could have large population benefits, and explains how pregnancy-related postural adaptations (forward-shifting belly and increased pelvic tilt) change diaphragm–pelvic floor alignment and contribute to dysfunction.

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So if we taught this earlier in life, taught people how to do pelvic floor exercise, had them see a pelvic floor physical therapist, I literally think it would change the world. And it would also plant the seed that if you are a person who's choosing to become pregnant at some point in your life, now we look at, okay, what do we need to do differently in pregnancy? We have to look at what are the postural adaptations. So as the belly grows out in front of us, our center of gravity is shifting, and unconsciously, what happens is a lot of women start to lean back, they thrust their pelvis forward a little bit, and that messes with that optimal alignment of the diaphragm in the pelvic floor. So that's a contributing factor.