ADHESIONS AND BEYOND : with Isabel Spradlin
If you are curious about or struggling with vaginal prolapse, this is an important article: F.D.A Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women. A couple of things I think are important: the mesh discussed in the article is only one of many different kinds of pelvic and abdominal mesh available to … Continue reading …
I just wanted to let you all know that The Hysterectomy Association recently published a post I wrote: Healing fully after a hysterectomy. For those of you who have been following along for a while, none of the symptoms I talk about will surprise you. But, of course, it can be nice to see the … Continue reading …
Jen Owen is a Nurse Pracitioner in Portland, OR with over 26 years of unique knowledge in health care. She specializes in integrative/functional medicine, herbal medicine, pelvic care, and mind-body awareness. It was such a pleasure to get to get to interview her about internal pelvic care and more! We spent the first half of … Continue reading …
In my last post I wrote about the joy of engaging with the softer side of abdominal care, the joyful side of it. And I was reflecting that this is something that yoga helps us to do so beautifully. Yoga is so intimately connected into our abdomens, not just through the physical poses that I … Continue reading …
Amazing! This timed perfectly with last week’s Abdominal Adhesions Newsletter about the pelvic floor. (I’m sure YI did that on purpose. 🙂 ) Anyhoo . . . Wow, this is SUCH a great article. The agni sara abdominal exercise is such a necessary and fundamental part of a yoga practice and it is discussed and taught … Continue reading …
For some reason this always cracks me up (and not always in the funny way, sometimes it’s in the Lady Macbeth wrenching of the hands way). I think I’ve just been working with adhesions for so long it’s hard for me to understand the idea of using drugs or surgery to break up what is … Continue reading …
Sounds boring and gross, right? I mean seriously, statistics about how many bellies get cut into every year? Ugh. But actually, these numbers kind of blew my mind: From the CDC, numbers of certain abdominal surgeries in the US every year: Hysterectomy: 498,000 Cesarean section:1.3 million From other sources: 750,000 gall bladder surgeries in the … Continue reading …
It’s real! I have finally begun my regular abdominal adhesion newsletter. Want to read it for yourself? Behold the first of many Abdominal Adhesion News‘! If you’d like to sign up for it, you can do so at my website: abdominaladhesiontreatment.com. It’s amazing how right it feels to finally be doing this. It’s been on … Continue reading …
“So, now your videos helped me to understand the process of adhesions and to become more gentle and kind with my belly which obviously is part of me and to try to work with “her” and not against “her”, as things are what they are because there is a reason for it. . .” This … Continue reading …
*all photos are still shots from Self-Care for Abdominal Adhesions Did you know that yoga can really help with abdominal adhesions? Yes, indeedy. Apart from the fact that a quality yoga class will ask the use of your spine in every possible direction (even if you have restrictions) in addition to strengthening your core muscles … Continue reading …