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Pelvic Pain Recovery Through Yoga: One Mom’s Success Story

In a recent three-part series, I shared the story of Kate,a physical therapist and mother of two working diligently to overcome serious pelvic girdle pain (PGP).In Part 3 of that series, Idiscussed the benefits of using yoga for pelvic pain relief, especially for myalgia or hypertonicity of the pelvic floor muscles, which occurs in vaginismus. Myalgia is also known as non-relaxing pelvic floor.Symptoms of nonrelaxing pelvic floor dysfunction are associated with …

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Triplets Birth Story – Part 2: Recovery

It took me a little longer than expected to write the second half of the triplets birth story because frankly getting things back to normal around here has been trying at times. Here I am recovering from major surgery to remove three babies from inside me; my husband only had a few days time to take off and even then took off a few unpaid days.

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Chicken Pox or Shingles?

As a child, you may have come down with a case of chicken pox. The disease was once common among children before a vaccine against it was developed, according to the Mayo Clinic. While it is usually a mild illness, it is contagious and people have died from it. Although people usually develop immunity to the disease after contracting it once, in some cases, the virus can be dormant in their bodies and re-emerge years later as shingles.