Vaginismus, Delayed Ejaculation, Penis Health & Posture: Change Your (Sex) Life Via Your Pelvic Floor

We’re joined by pelvic health physiotherapist, Michiko Caringal, who answers all of our questions about how the pelvic floor affects sexual health including:

Why might ejaculation be painful?

How do you address delayed ejaculation?

Why do penises require pelvic floor therapy?

Can my vagina fall out?

Why is pelvic floor therapy important for cis and trans folks alike?

What does a pelvic floor consultation look like?

Who might benefit from a rectal exam?

How can we improve patient experience to ensure more active vs. passive care?

How do you clean your vulva and vagina?

What does it mean to “release the tailbone”?

How is back pain related to pelvic health and how can posture affect pelvic floor health?

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Vaginismus, Delayed Ejaculation, Penis Health & Posture: Change Your (Sex) Life Via Your Pelvic Floor

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You're listening to the sex with dr. Jazz podcast sex and relationship advice you can you off tonight? Welcome to the sex with dr. Jazz podcast. I'm your co-host Brandon. We're here with my lovely other half a Jess. How are you? I'm feeling good. We've got a great guest today who's going to answer so many of our questions regarding pelvic floor health and more. So not just penises and vaginas, but we're going to be talking about delayed ejaculation painful ejaculation pelvic floor therapy for Trans folks for sis folks what a pelvic floor consultation looks like the role of rectal exams in some pelvic floor treatment how we can make patient experiences more active vs. Passive. We're going to be talking about how to clean your Volvo. How long In your vagina what it means to release the tailbone so much more all in the name of sexual health and of course pleasure and that brings us to our October partner for the podcast Cleo Ivana and Cleo Ivana is a treatment that uses sound wave technology to stimulate the growth of blood vessels and nerve tissue and it's completely non-invasive treatment that actually targets the clitoris. So it's not about the vagina and we know the clitoris is responsible for all the pleasure down there and across the body and so with no don't down. It's an exciting new treatment folks can learn more at Cleo Vana.com. Now we are going to be speaking with Michiko caring gal from Happy down there who specializes in pelvic Health physiotherapist all genders Michiko went to U of T and have a couple of master's degrees in physical therapy as well as a master of Health Science in bioethics. Thanks so much for being here. We're happy to chat with u always learning off of Explorer therapists. Tell me tell me about your journey. How did you end up working in this field? Yeah, so I actually experienced pain with sucks for so long for two years actually about ten years ago and I went through so many medical professionals and people were saying, you know,