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Easing Hip Pain through Improving Spine Mobility &

Easing Hip Pain through Improving Spine Mobility & Movement. Low back pain isn't created equal. Sometimes pain in the low back isn't really coming from that area at all. So as a pelvic and ortho PT, I have to be good at sleuthing out the source of the pain. Sometimes it isn't mechanical, sometimes it's neurological or coming from the brain.

In this case, if your pain is coming from a tight quadratus lumborum and a loss of mid-back (thoracic) mobility or poor motor patterning, this short Yoga sequence (Medical Therapeutic Yoga-based) may help!

https://youtu.be/SLae_izqpzc

#lowbackpain #physicaltherapy #integrativephysicaltherapy #medicaltherapeuticyoga #yoga #fitness #wellness #integrativelifestylemed #hippain #pelvichealth

The Scissor Series: Calming a Snarky Psoas & Weak

The Scissor Series: Calming a Snarky Psoas & Weak Core/Gluts. When you have active hip or back pain - it’s tough to know what exercises to do or how.

This little series is one I often use (thanks @terahkelleher for being a great patient model today!) to tackle tight hip flexors and weak core and gluts in the presence of low back and/or hip pain!

This Series is a companion to the "90/90 Series" - in fact if you have not mastered the 90/90 Series first you should before progressing to the Scissor Series.

This Medical Therapeutic Yoga and Pilates Inspired Scissor Series works on:
- Gluteal strength
- Core and gluteal timing and coordination
- Lung Power/Vocal and Core Power via the "Umbrella Breath" (also called TATD Breath) *Watch the Umbrella Breath Series FIRST if you haven't yet
- Calming and easing pain from tight hip flexors (because stretching often doesn't work and can often make groin and back pain worse)

Disclaimer: This and any other videos by Dr. Ginger Garner do not constitute a patient-provider relationship nor are they a substitute for medical care or physical therapy. By participating in these videos user assumes all risk. Before starting this or any other exercise regimen you should seek the advice and/or clearance of your physician, nurse practitioner, and/or physical therapist. To learn with Dr. G, visit learn.integrativelifestylemed.com

Y’all! I'm super excited to be putting my longti

Y’all! I'm super excited to be putting my longtime popular (woop! Love that folks love learning about hte hip!) hip course online and on-demand! ⁠⁠
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What: 100% online, on-demand 12 hour course that teaches you everything you need to know about the hip, pelvic pain conditions that can mask or exacerbate hips issues, PLUS how to use Integrative, Functional, and Lifestyle Medicine to enhance outcomes! ⁠⁠
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When: Launches December 1 and will include optional live coaching calls! ⁠⁠
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I'm due to start filming this course soon - and I cannot WAIT to share updates on :⁠⁠
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✅ Surgical techniques and types of imaging that are helpful for diagnosis ⁠⁠
✅ Injuries that can mimic labral tears⁠⁠
✅ What rehab SHOULD include⁠⁠
✅ What hip arthroscopy protocols are missing⁠⁠
✅ Nutrition, sleep, stress, and environmental triggers that can worsen hip pain ⁠⁠
✅ What good PT should look like and feel like (and include!) ⁠⁠
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Please join me for a whole lotta fun learning online - and YES! ⁠⁠
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🤓This course is a high level course for PT's ⁠⁠
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📣BUT if you are frustrated with your existing therapy and aren't getting the progress you want - and can't get back to the activities you love - this course can help you! ⁠⁠
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PT's will learn comprehensive examination and intervention for the hip and pelvic girdle that takes a whole-person, integrative, lifestyle approach. ⁠⁠
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PLUS:⁠⁠
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Secondary and differential diagnoses of the hip and pelvis will be addressed as well as current surgical methods. ⁠⁠
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Learn more and snag your spot at link in bio or https://learn.integrativelifestylemed.com/courses/hip-differential-diagnosis-integrative-management ⁠⁠
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#physicaltherapy #pelvichealth #pelvicpain #continuingeducation #hiplabraltear #hipimpingement #hiprehab #hiplabralinjury #integrativemedicine #functionalmedicine #lifestylemedicine #yoga #medicaltherapeuticyoga

Pelvic health requires mental health, so let's get

Pelvic health requires mental health, so let's get to work with giving a #voice to #pelvicselfcare! ⁠
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Sooo lately I've been feeling a "tweak" in my left pelvic floor area. And I know why. It's related to yesterday's post on the return of my left-sided #lymphedema. Inflammation and environmental stress and dietary triggers are no joke. ⁠
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These practices take no time at all, and can help flush out a pelvic pain flare that's related to tension and stress. ⁠
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🤓 Subscribe for FREE to my YouTube Channel (link in bio) where I teach you how to practice The Nap Meditation and how to breathe properly to support the pelvic floor AND voice. ⁠
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🎤 Giving a Voice to Pelvic Self-Care starts by practicing these videos IN THIS ORDER: ⁠
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📣Stop Breathing Incorrectly! ⁠
📣Belly Breathing⁠
📣Bee Breathing⁠
📣The Nap Meditation⁠
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These are your BASICS of breathing well for the voice and pelvic floor. ⁠
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If you want to ramp it up a bit practice the rest of the videos in the Medical Therapeutic Yoga Practice playlist! ⁠
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Okay, happy #worldmentalhealthday a day late and happy #mindfulmonday. Because pelvic health and mental health go hand in hand! ⁠
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These little practices can help us GIVE A VOICE TO PELVIC SELF-CARE! ⁠
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PLUS don’t forget! Lifestyle Medicine - hydrating, getting enough sleep, and identifying food and environmental triggers that cause inflammation are SUPER important - which is why I use #lifestylemedicine and #yoga #integrativemedicine in my #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy practice. ⁠
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If you are a healthcare provider, I teach CE on this as well, just head on over to integrativelifestylemed.com to learn more! ⁠
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If you are a person, I teach all kinds of online classes on pelvic and vocal health (and overall mind-body fitness) at the same site 👆⁠
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Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube Channel to start your free practice! Link in bio - ⁠

Long Range Follow Up. I’m back with a (semi-long

Long Range Follow Up. I’m back with a (semi-long) video follow up on my lymphedema.

My take-home message - I’m having a lymphedema flare, and it’s sooo disheartening. But, I knew this would happen eventually. There’s no cure for lymphedema.

So - what am I doing to tackle it?

Lifestyle Medicine Intervention I’m using:

✅Evaluating stressors and managing those with mindfulness and yoga and #mentalhealth therapy (because we need to ditch the stigma associated with mental health. Everyone needs therapy at some point in their lives. It’s a sign of strength and courage, not of weakness, to get help.

✅Identifying lack of sleep sources

✅Minimizing known dietary triggers. If this doesn’t help, I may have to do a new elimination diet because there could be a new dietary sensitivity driving inflammation.

✅Getting enough physical activity which includes aerobic activity (walking my cute #rescuepup Scout Finch) AND weight lifting (I use #yoga #medicaltherapeuticyoga #pilates #weighttraining to tackle this)

✅Eliminate any new environmental triggers - is there a new product I am using which is an endocrine disruptor?

PLUS

✅Functional Medicine helped me identify things that clearly increase my systematic inflammation, which is super helpful #genetictesting

✅Integrative Medicine, like I mentioned above with #mindfulness and yoga, helps me with sleep, stress, and physical activity.

So if you battling #lymphedema - keep persisting, and make SURE you are seeing a practitioner who does MORE than just biomedical treatment. #functionalmedicine #integrativemedicine and #lifestylemedicine have saved my life - #physicaltherapy alone isn’t enough to tackle lymphedema. So make sure you find a practitioner who respects and includes all these treatments.

You can do this! I’m holding space for you to positively manage this - in the meantime, I’m back on the pump and in my compression garments!

Sending love and support for you all - I didn’t have breast cancer, but I had all the nasty side effects of the surgery that go along with it. So I have learned SO much about supporting women with #breastcancer #breastcancerwarrior #mastectomy #lumpectomy

Okay so I'm #1, #2, AND #3 on this chart for stati

Okay so I'm #1, #2, AND #3 on this chart for statistical stress levels. ⁠⁠
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Do you know what stress does for your voice and pelvic floor? Not to mention just your mood, immunity, and resilience overall. Stress depletes us and sends us to dark places. ⁠⁠
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But we also need stress to thrive. We can’t get stronger without lifting the weight, yea? ⁠⁠
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We have to learn to see the opportunity in some things (eustress) and not only the trauma (distress). ⁠⁠
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That's why I am TOTALLY overjoyed to have landed a ticket to see Patty Griffin tomorrow. She is my absolutely #1 shero in music today. #musicismedicine #moremusic #pattygriffin ⁠⁠
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Patty has lifted me out of utter darkness many times. So thanks to my friend Angie Cooper for coming to my rescue. You rock (as always). 😘⁠⁠
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Sorry folks, it's sold out - but here's the link anyhoo ‘cause if you don’t know Patty, you should. ⁠⁠
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/patty-griffin-and-gregory-alan-isakov-tickets-156918516507 ⁠⁠
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Tomorrow my soul will be singing and my pelvic floor will ALSO be happy because of it. ⁠⁠
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Because #singingisasport #voicingisasport #mindfulness ⁠⁠
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#musicismedicine #pelvichealth #voicetherapy #hiphealth #singing #physicaltherapy #integrativephysicaltherapy #thesingingPT ⁠⁠
#medicaltherapeuticyoga #stressrelief #stressmanagement #womenshealth #music #integrativemedicine #lifestylemedicine #education #arts #healthcare #burnout #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy

Vocalizing is a sport! ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 🎤Yep, sing

Vocalizing is a sport! ⁠⁠
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🎤Yep, singers are athletes. ⁠⁠
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⚠️But you don’t have to be a singer to benefit from all using your voice has to offer. ⁠⁠
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🎶I use vocalization techniques when treating patients with pelvic floor issues - which can include: ⁠⁠
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✅hip pain⁠⁠
✅sacroiliac joint pain⁠⁠
✅low back pain⁠⁠
✅pain with sex⁠⁠
✅postpartum pain⁠⁠
✅prenatal pain⁠⁠
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📣The voice can really improve pain in the areas mentioned above, and it also can build a powerhouse core - which is a real plus for singers, public speakers, and teachers! ⁠⁠
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Here’s how using your voice can help improve pelvic health: ⁠⁠
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📣Using the voice strengthens the diaphragm. The diaphragm moves 7-8 cm during singing but only about 1.5 during regular breathing.⁠⁠
📣Using the voice elongates the exhale more than breath work alone, which improves the relaxation response.⁠⁠
📣Breathing for singing requires more conscious core (read: pelvic floor) control than just breath work alone.⁠⁠
📣Using the voice improves vagal tone which better regulates pelvic pain, overall mood, digestion, sexual function, & even labor & delivery & bowel/bladder function!⁠⁠
📣Breathwork for vocalization requires more muscle effort and activity than regular breathing.⁠⁠
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Essentially - using the voice (the right way) can bring breathing and pelvic floor functioning back under voluntary control with less effort.⁠⁠
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#pelvichealth #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy #voice #singing #music #voicetherapy #physicaltherapy #integrativemedicine #lifestlyemedicine #integrativelifestylemed #eudemomia #eudemonia #diaphragm #breathing #pelvicfloor #dyspareunia #postpartum #prenatal #hippain #sacroiliacjointpain #lowbackpain

Aloha Physical Therapy!. Omigosh! This happened to

Aloha Physical Therapy!. Omigosh! This happened today!

It’s this kind of experience that keeps me going - especially when there may be 10 hour days helping patients out who have hip and pelvic pain.

I’m just honored and humbled for someone to fly this far and entrust their healthcare to me.

So if you are out there struggling with hip related pelvic pain, I’m here for you!

Just reach out.

#pelvichealth #pelvichealthphysio #hiplabraltear #integrativephysicaltherapy #lifestylemedicine #yoga #medicaltherapeuticyoga #womanownedbusiness #womensupportingwomen #womenempoweringwomen

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