by Jessica Drummond | Feb 24, 2022 | Amenorrhea, Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Digestive Health, Endometriosis, For Patients, Gut Health, Integrative Health, Menstrual Health, Painful Sex, PCOS, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Urinary Health, Vaginal Health
It was my honor to interview Dr. Allyson Shrikhande, MD, founder of Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine about the role of rehabilitation medicine in chronic pelvic pain. Rehabilitation medicine includes the tools of pain and nervous system modulation medications, specific...
by Jessica Drummond | Apr 3, 2019 | Adrenal Health, Cancer, Clinician Resources, Estrogen, Fertility, Functional Nutrition, Gluten Free, Gut Health, Heart Health, Hormone Balance, Pelvic Health, Recipes, Thyroid Health, Vulvodynia, Weight Loss
Celery juice, the hottest new instagram trend for solving all of your health problems, is probably ridiculous, right? That’s what I thought, until I looked at the published literature on the specific health benefits of celery. Let’s consider why some...
by Jessica Drummond | Feb 10, 2019 | Adrenal Health, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Gluten Free, Gut Health, Hormone Balance, Integrative Nutrition, Mental Health, Pelvic Health, Recipes
The beautiful thing about dark chocolate is that it is delicious, and let me share some of the best dark chocolate benefits with you… Dark Chocolate Benefits Certainly some women are highly sensitive to caffeine. For those women, dark chocolate is not a good...
by Jessica Drummond | Jan 7, 2018 | Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Estrogen, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Gluten Free, Gut Health, Hormone Balance, Painful Sex, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Recipes, Vulvodynia
Functional Nutrition Treatment Options for Vulvodynia and IBS When the pain of vulvodynia hits – the painful sex, the pain with wearing tight pants, the pain with just sitting through a movie! – you just want it gone. Fortunately, by taking an integrative...
by Jessica Drummond | Jan 7, 2018 | Celiac Disease, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Environmental Toxins, Exercise, For Patients, Functional Nutrition, Gluten Free, Gut Health, Painful Sex, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Recipes, Vulvodynia
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Autoimmunity… Is there a connection? In my practice, many of my patients who struggle with chronic pelvic pain also have autoimmune conditions. Even those who don’t have clear autoimmune diagnoses, often have autoimmune issues...
by Jessica Drummond | Jan 5, 2018 | Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, Functional Nutrition, Gut Health, Pelvic Health
One of the reasons that relieving pelvic pain is so challenging is that pain in different systems within the pelvis can overlap. For example, in rats where experimental colitis (colon irritation) was induced, many of the rats also experienced bladder and urethral...
