Incontinence, prolapse, anal leakage or pelvic pain?  Your pelvic floor supports you through everything in life however including keeping key organs in place.  Many of the complaints with aging go back to pelvic floor health, so why is there not an emphasis on it’s care? Kim Vopni is the founder of Pelvienne Wellness Inc - a company offering pelvic health programs and coaching for women in pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. In women’s health circles online, Kim is known as The Vagina Coach. She is a certified fitness professional, creator of the Buff Muff Method and Membership, author of the book Your Pelvic Floor, and a women’s health educator who co-hosts of the Pelvic Love Retreat.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Kim Vopni about pelvic health from preparing for childbirth to lowering the chances or reoccurrences of pelvic surgery and why pelvic floor health is necessary to age well.

 

What You’ll Learn In This Episode:

• You can prep your tissue and pelvic floor for childbirth 
• The importance of seeing a pelvic floor therapist annually 
• Why Kegels aren’t working for you
• How constipation and dehydration worsen your bladder leakage
• Why there’s a high recurrence of issues post pelvic surgery like prolapse and rectocele
• The two concepts to master to improve your pelvic floor health
• How pulling pelvic floor muscles off the bone during childbirth causes pelvic floor issues
• Lowering of UTIs with estrogen support vaginally

 

Resources From The Show:

• Kim’s Website - Vagina Coach
• Buff Muff Method $17 and 28 day challenge
• Training the pelvic floor in fitness certificates
• Epi-No - preparing women for child birth - available in Europe. 
• Bellies Inc - available in Europe
• Dr. Shobeiri, Urogynecologist in DC - specialist in Levator Ani - avulsions