by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Aug 18, 2022 | Article, Celiac Disease, Chronic Illness & Pain, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Endometriosis, Food Sensitivity, For Patients, Gluten Free, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy
Gluten and Endometriosis Is there a link between gluten and endometriosis? Should women avoid gluten to lower their risk of endometriosis or to help to resolve the symptoms of endometriosis? Let’s look at the research… First, it’s important to consider that...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Aug 5, 2022 | Article, Birth Control, Breastfeeding, Clinician Resources, Fertility, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Mental Health, Postnatal Recovery, Reproductive Health, Stress
For moms and parents in your practice who decide to breastfeed, there is so much that you can do to encourage them to build a healthy breast milk supply. Supporting your clients to build a healthy breast milk supply is beneficial to the newborn babies as well as the...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Aug 2, 2022 | Article, Clinician Resources, For Patients, Health Coaching, Integrative Health, Integrative Nutrition, Pelvic Health
The foundation of our mission at The Integrative Women’s Health Institute is to help provide higher-quality, integrative pelvic healthcare for ALL people. My name is Dr. Jessica Drummond, and I am the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Aug 1, 2022 | Anxiety, Article, Back Pain, Celiac Disease, Chronic Illness & Pain, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Endometriosis, Gut Health, Integrative Health, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Vulvodynia
It can be hard to determine the best probiotics for endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. The “best probiotic” can be challenging to choose from among the many options. It’s even more difficult to determine which probiotics are best for...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Jul 25, 2022 | Article, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Estrogen, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Health Coaching, Hormone Balance, Painful Sex, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia affects over 14 million people in the US alone. This complex pain syndrome is a frustrating condition to treat. Vulvodynia is a condition that causes pain in the vulva (or specifically in the vulvar vestibule). The root cause of vulvodynia is not fully...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Mar 8, 2022 | Article, Back Pain, Chronic Illness & Pain, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Endometriosis, For Patients, Pelvic Health
Why are we talking about cannabis and CBD in relation to endometriosis? Because a whopping 76% percent of people with endometriosis use self-care strategies to manage their pain and other symptoms. (Armour, et al., 2019). When your clients have endometriosis, you know...
