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109: Breathwork, The Pelvic Floor, The Core, and Women's Health with Dr. Brenda Gajowski
On today’s episode, I have the brilliant Dr. Brenda Gajowski. Dr. Gajowski is a doctor of physical therapy who specializes in the pelvic floor. She helps postpartum women and moms of any age return to the activities they love without pain, leaking, or instability.
This episode is NOT just for women. As men, the more we can understand our partners, the more we can support them and some of the principles we talk about can be applied to men as well.
In the episode, we talk about:
- The importance of breathwork and how to breath properly for core stability and control.
- What is the pelvic floor and why it matters.
- How your abs are only a piece of the core and if that is all you are focusing on, you are going to be in big trouble
- The importance of the squat
- How alignment plays into strength and even leaking while working out
- And much more
She takes an orthopedic approach to pelvic health and your body as a whole, with an integrative and holistic mindset, and she has a special love of guiding healing and return to activity in the postpartum period. She has 15+ years of experience in orthopedics, sports therapy, and perinatal health and is a mom who loves working with moms.
Her special passion of working with women in the postpartum period, and throughout the journey of motherhood, began when she had her third baby in 2015 and wound up with diastasis recti (split of the abdominal muscles). Her experience showed her the gap of support and education the traditional model gives to women during the amazing, and often chaotic, transition through pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. A time in a woman's life when learning alignment, muscle control, stability, and optimal healing principles are so important to prevent pain and dysfunction in the future! She wants to be a part of changing the way we look at postpartum health and the return to activity, sports, and life.
She also collaborates in the community as a Simple Wellness Coach and a co-founder of the non-profit Mind Body Baby.
For questions and feedback, you can reach me at [email protected] or www.precisionchiroclt.com
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On today’s episode, I have the brilliant Dr. Brenda Gajowski. Dr. Gajowski is a doctor of physical therapy who specializes in the pelvic floor. She helps postpartum women and moms of any age return to the activities they love without pain, leaking, or instability.
This episode is NOT just for women. As men, the more we can understand our partners, the more we can support them and some of the principles we talk about can be applied to men as well.
In the episode, we talk about:
- The importance of breathwork and how to breath properly for core stability and control.
- What is the pelvic floor and why it matters.
- How your abs are only a piece of the core and if that is all you are focusing on, you are going to be in big trouble
- The importance of the squat
- How alignment plays into strength and even leaking while working out
- And much more
She takes an orthopedic approach to pelvic health and your body as a whole, with an integrative and holistic mindset, and she has a special love of guiding healing and return to activity in the postpartum period. She has 15+ years of experience in orthopedics, sports therapy, and perinatal health and is a mom who loves working with moms.
Her special passion of working with women in the postpartum period, and throughout the journey of motherhood, began when she had her third baby in 2015 and wound up with diastasis recti (split of the abdominal muscles). Her experience showed her the gap of support and education the traditional model gives to women during the amazing, and often chaotic, transition through pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. A time in a woman's life when learning alignment, muscle control, stability, and optimal healing principles are so important to prevent pain and dysfunction in the future! She wants to be a part of changing the way we look at postpartum health and the return to activity, sports, and life.
She also collaborates in the community as a Simple Wellness Coach and a co-founder of the non-profit Mind Body Baby.
For questions and feedback, you can reach me at [email protected] or www.precisionchiroclt.com