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...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Feb 24, 2022 | Amenorrhea, Article, 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, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Apr 2, 2021 | Article, Chronic Pain, Clinician Resources, For Patients, Pelvic Health, Pelvic Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy
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...
by Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Apr 3, 2019 | Adrenal Health, Article, 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, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC | Feb 10, 2019 | Adrenal Health, Anxiety, Article, 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...
