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...
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...
Jessica Drummond: Hey everybody. It’s Jessica Drummond here with the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, and I have a very special guest for us today, Dr. Amanda Olson. She is a Physical Therapist who specializes in pelvic pain, and she originally...
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...
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...
Vulvovaginal Atrophy is Common Vaginal dryness and vulvovaginal atrophy is a common problem for women. In the United States alone, 32 million women suffer from vulvovaginal atrophy in perimenopause and post-menopause. The symptoms associated with vulvovaginal atrophy...