Osteopath Dr Meg Withers shares the role the pelvic floor muscles play in SIBO and how bodywork can be beneficial for symptom management for both conditions.

In today’s episode

• Pelvic tightness: what causes it, what you can do about it, and how this can impact the function of the gut
• How your position on the toilet can impact your ability to poo (and what you can use from your home)
• Guidelines for toilet positioning (and what positions can make things worse)
• The role of breath work and the pelvic floor muscles (and how they can help you poo) and specific breath work exercises to help when you’re constipated
• Why clenching your jaw and grinding your teeth impacts your pelvic floor muscles
• The role of body work in your SIBO treatment protocol
• The impact prior surgeries (ie. c-section, appendectomy, gall bladder removal) can have on your pelvic floor and abdominal muscles
• Is it ever too late to start getting bodywork treatment
• The correlation between SIBO and endometriosis and the role body work has in the management of both conditions
• The importance of working at your own pace when it comes to body work 
• The type of practitioner who can provide the correct body work and key search terms to type into Google to find someone locally

Watch the video podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aAwQAcoMEhk

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast:

• Squatty potty toilet stool
• The Osteopathic Pelvic Hub
• The Pelvic Health Institute of Australia
• Gut and Pelvic Health Osteo IG account

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