PelvicPotential
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Sara Tanza DPT-Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist-Mom-Hugger-Assistant Race Director (She.Is.Beautiful 5k & 10k)
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January 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I love it!!! Mondays are always better because they start with a great newsletter😘😘😘
December 2, 2024 at 6:52 AM
I love it!!! Mondays are always better because they start with a great newsletter😘😘😘
Yay!! Love your writing! I got introduced to your work after your great piece on @nikkihiltz.bsky.social and have been a fan since🙌🙌
December 1, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Yay!! Love your writing! I got introduced to your work after your great piece on @nikkihiltz.bsky.social and have been a fan since🙌🙌
This is just the best! You were a great teammate then and a bright light now🫶
November 21, 2024 at 5:49 AM
This is just the best! You were a great teammate then and a bright light now🫶
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November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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So I’m settled on Holistic Physical Therapist! Not Holistic with MAHA vibes (🤮), but with taking the whole body into account with a side of social justice vibes✨🫶
November 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
So I’m settled on Holistic Physical Therapist! Not Holistic with MAHA vibes (🤮), but with taking the whole body into account with a side of social justice vibes✨🫶
And even saying neuro/ortho/pelvic PT doesn’t encompass the way I treat dysfunctions in their viscera/vessels as well, which is CRUCIAL for of diagnoses, because the pelvic floor is basically a co-dependent friend responding to dysfunction around it!!
November 20, 2024 at 2:46 PM
And even saying neuro/ortho/pelvic PT doesn’t encompass the way I treat dysfunctions in their viscera/vessels as well, which is CRUCIAL for of diagnoses, because the pelvic floor is basically a co-dependent friend responding to dysfunction around it!!
If I HADN’T treated their neck, their pelvic floor wouldn’t have responded as well when I eventually made it down there later in the session.
November 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
If I HADN’T treated their neck, their pelvic floor wouldn’t have responded as well when I eventually made it down there later in the session.
But the world of pelvic floor PT wasn’t always treating the whole body. Even my patients whose neck was more of an issue than their pelvic floor that day said “I fell bad you are treating my neck because I know you mostly love pf treatment”!!
November 20, 2024 at 2:41 PM
But the world of pelvic floor PT wasn’t always treating the whole body. Even my patients whose neck was more of an issue than their pelvic floor that day said “I fell bad you are treating my neck because I know you mostly love pf treatment”!!
I also started finding that helping people with pelvic floor diagnoses regain function felt similar to those rehab “high highs”
I personally missed!
I personally missed!
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I also started finding that helping people with pelvic floor diagnoses regain function felt similar to those rehab “high highs”
I personally missed!
I personally missed!
I also was realizing that our orthopedic education left out a F$&ING HUGE and important part of my patient’s bodies: the pelvic floor region!
November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I also was realizing that our orthopedic education left out a F$&ING HUGE and important part of my patient’s bodies: the pelvic floor region!
I left the neuro acute rehab to work in an outpatient clinic with “orthopedic” patients, but then found myself missing the “high highs” of rehab: that first muscle activation, the first unassisted transfer, the first steps..
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I left the neuro acute rehab to work in an outpatient clinic with “orthopedic” patients, but then found myself missing the “high highs” of rehab: that first muscle activation, the first unassisted transfer, the first steps..
“Neuro” patients at that time and currently are not always offered manual therapy intervention that are aimed at their mechanical restrctions and “functional” training alone is not always enough.
November 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM
“Neuro” patients at that time and currently are not always offered manual therapy intervention that are aimed at their mechanical restrctions and “functional” training alone is not always enough.
That was because I highly valued my “orthopedic” skill set and was using it to treat my “neuro” patients. I.E. soft tissue and joint mobilization on my patient with a brain injury who had back pain or a patient with SCI and shoulder pain.
November 20, 2024 at 2:31 PM
That was because I highly valued my “orthopedic” skill set and was using it to treat my “neuro” patients. I.E. soft tissue and joint mobilization on my patient with a brain injury who had back pain or a patient with SCI and shoulder pain.
But then when working in neuro while simultaneously studying for a multi-year manual therapy certification, I ALSO hated calling myself a Neuro PT.
November 20, 2024 at 2:29 PM
But then when working in neuro while simultaneously studying for a multi-year manual therapy certification, I ALSO hated calling myself a Neuro PT.
Second, if you want to work with pro athletes, having neuro experience is SO helpful because you are USED to helping to make movements easier/more efficient which in the sports world translates to more strength/power (with a side of injury reduction).
November 20, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Second, if you want to work with pro athletes, having neuro experience is SO helpful because you are USED to helping to make movements easier/more efficient which in the sports world translates to more strength/power (with a side of injury reduction).
That experience was IMPERATIVE to my current skill set in two ways. First, we have SO much overlap with neuro patients when we are healing post partum! That’s why I love PNF so much for treating this population.
November 20, 2024 at 2:22 PM
That experience was IMPERATIVE to my current skill set in two ways. First, we have SO much overlap with neuro patients when we are healing post partum! That’s why I love PNF so much for treating this population.
I’ve worked extensively in neuro with patients working to regain function after spinal cord injury/brain injury/stroke. Those patients are the hardest working athletes! Our goal every day was performance training and getting more efficient/faster/functional.
November 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
I’ve worked extensively in neuro with patients working to regain function after spinal cord injury/brain injury/stroke. Those patients are the hardest working athletes! Our goal every day was performance training and getting more efficient/faster/functional.