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This week we talk to Dr. Smita Mehta, PT, DPT, PRPC! Dr. Mehta is a pelvic floor physical therapist and part of a multidisciplinary team for IBD at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. She clarified what pelvic floor PT is, how it can help people living with IBD, how to find your pelvic floor, and so much more. This conversation was absolutely fascinating and a revelation for both of us. And Dr. Mehta is so passionate about her work! In addition to her impressive resume on pelvic floor rehabilitation, she also has certificates in Post Partum Corrective Exercise and Pelvic Oncology Rehabilitation and completed her Ashtanga Yoga Teacher's training.


Links: 

• Image on what and where are your pelvic floor muscles - from Dr. Mehta 
• Article "Gut-Directed Pelvic Floor Behavioral Treatment for Fecal Incontinence and Constipation in Patients with IBD" 
• Article: "Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in IBD" 
• Article: "Systematic review: Pelvic floor muscle training for functional bowel symptoms in inflammatory bowel disease"
• Article: "Nonrelaxing Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Is an Underestimated Complication of Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis"
• Video explaining pelvic floor muscles- Mayo Clinic
• "Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in IBD" - recorded session- Partnership between Own Your Crohn's and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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