Femalewellness

It has been a year. Opportunities showing up, and leaving at my own choice. Promises made and kept/not being held up. New options opening up. Alignment and gratefulness of the solid people I surround myself with. I am v excited about things moving forwards. And I appreciate if you leave some love. And engagement. But of course.. things are happening. I will never stop pursuing the importance of women’s health. And one year after studying the Masters of it. I will share perspectives to come🐚

I am noticing a trend right now where pelvic health is being more about saying what not to do than what to do. And I just want to pint out that in most circumstances regaining pelvic floor function postpartum is not that complicated. ✔️ Check technique and function and be coached by a pelvic floor therapist that conducts a vaginal exam ✔️ the same person should be able to help to with a different treatment plan if neccessary ✔️ Kegal exercises, or pelvic floor exercises will not ruin you if done as adviced ✔️ Breathing exercises will not exercise your pelvic floor alone, But might be a helpful add-on to activize. Keep it simple and empower postpartum recovery in a sustainable way🌱🌱🌱

For over two years ago I posted this. Thrilled to see we are moving forward ✨✨✨ It strickes me crystal clear after a week communicating with different people about womens health and pelvic floor dysfunctions postpartum: WE HAVE A MAJOR LACK of interdiciplinary communication. And the looser in this maze of mess is the woman herself. I was astonished in an interview I saw last week with doctors and midwives on that nobody mentioned physiotherapists and osteopaths trained in womens health as a natural part of the multidiciplinary team that is involved in womens postpartum recovery. Not to forget: there are so many personal trainers and yogainstructors that also play a part in the everyday activities of a postpartum mum. And I truly believe we need all hands on deck to raise awareness about postpartum womens health. We need to communicate to the benefit of every single woman that needs help to regain function and live a life without pain and complications.

Thank you for 16 years of clinical practice. I am grateful for the opporunities I had to learn, teach and be true to my professional values. I will bring with me an eagerness to continue multidiciplinary communication. And also kind words, lifelong friends and support. A special thanks to all involved in Kvinnehelsesenteret/Mor-Barn concept: .ingvild .yoga Maria Schwenke 🤍

Trauma is complicated. And even more complicated as trauma is understoid differently from person to person. If you experienced trauma at a different age than you are now, the adult version of you might rationalize that «this is nothing to care about, it was minor» But your nervoussystem and hormonal responses are still lingering in your body. It might be a trauma related to a meeting with a healthprofessional. You can rationalize «But they did it for my best» But still.. the autonomic nervous system is playing out a response that causes reactions in your body. Many of my patients find relief and meaningful help in joyeous activities like dancing and singing, calming activities like meditation, walks in nature and breathing practices. Also by deliberate exercise to change the nervous systems’ response ( psychologist, trainers like and the app Cureable) Where We put our focus, We will grow. Find your joy✨🤍

You can choose to include yoga in your exercise routine and claim many benefits. Yoga is not one thing. Yoga are different traditions and movementpatterns and can also be broken down in to individual exercises for treatment purposes. I am forever grateful for knowing yoga for pre and postpartum care through .oslo experienced teachings. Yesterday We broke down some common triggers to pelvic pain to understand how we can guide the woman with pelvic pain through a yogaclass without triggering the pain. Exercise is medicine and we can always accomodate for the individual woman. I strongly recommend wrapup of the new guidelines for exercise and physical activity. This is too for pregnant women, mums and their children. (And dads☺️) Thank you for yesterdays experience 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Today’s clinical consideration. What is it actually we do that affect our health? And what is our health affected by really? If you look into the areas of your life you might be more focused on one or two main areas where you have determinert goals. Say: 1) a major health complaint that affects function and gives you pain. 2) a personal issue with your partner. In focusing on these two areas you might slip off in other areas that could have given you positive energy/motivation/hormonal responses like ✔️healthy foods ✔️movement ✔️relations ✔️sleep. What is this doing to your primary focus points? My reflection on this is: we can change up something to get a different result. But it is not always the core treatment plan. It can also be about bringing more joy to life and let the growth happen in areas not so restricted. So: instead of keeping banging the head against the same wall: let us turn another direction and have some joy. Change focus. What you nurture will grow🌱

If what I do in clinic could be summarized in one picture it is this. The sacrum extending through a visible expression of the route of Michaeli. The landmark used to differentiate sacroiliac and iliosacral dysfunction, driven from the hip or lower limb. Or lumbal/upper body. If you are a patient: this is why I ask you to squat. If you as a practitioner is lucky enough to meet the woman when birth is starting: it may be floating. The magic of touching a sacrum is one of my joy’s in life and it gives so much meaning. Expressed in a picture like this brings it full circle.. (a shoutout to whoever claims the is joints has no movement. L🤩🤩🤩k at this) thanks for sharing this amazing photo