What you will learn:
- Detailed pelvic floor and adjacent anatomy, including the pelvic floor involvement in trunk stability and breathing mechanics
- Common causes of pelvic floor pain or incontinence
- Exercises designed to address hypertonic or hypotonic pelvic floor (local focus)
- Exercises for adjacent and related areas of the body (global focus)
![This week’s episode of the Movement Logic Podcast is all about breathing.
[Post and podcast CW: assault, trauma]
I can’t tell you how many people I see in the clinic who are getting by on chest breathing – in particular, people who have had repeated traumatic experiences. This trauma may be directly related to their pain (the patient whose injury was caused by a negative experience with a practitioner, like a yoga class injury or a chiropractic adjustment), or it may not directly relate, but is a result of a life experience (the patient grieving the death of a loved one).
Is it always helpful to be instructed how to breathe? What if it's an override to someone's natural function? And what if your breathing intervention doesn’t achieve what you thought it would?
If we're teaching breathing in class, we have to consider the possibility that for at least some of the people in the room, they're breathing the way they are for a reason, and if we’re going to intervene and change it, we had better know exactly what we’re trying to do to their nervous system (wake it up or calm it down). We may want to consider the way we present breathing practices as well – less of an order, more of an option may feel safer to a lot of people.
Check out the full episode at the link in bio.
[Upcoming episode teaser: I was inspired by my utter lack of knowledge around nitrous oxide and the benefits of nose breathing to research and record an entire follow up episode on the topic. Keep an eye out for this ep in a few months!]](https://sarahcourtdpt.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
