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Do You Need ThermiVa?

Top reasons women select RF treatment with ThermiVa: are urine leakage, difficulty achieving orgasms and dryness. Tightening weakened pelvic floor muscles, improvement of sex, and longer term prevention of pelvic floor issues are also reasons women select the ThermiVa, meaning that virtually all women could benefit and may want to discuss alternatives to accomplish these goals. The treatment improves the muscles by heat delivered by an S-shaped handpiece, which is comfortable

New Year's Resolution to Help Your Bladder

Each year as we see office patients we ask about their resolutions, and we hear a lot of both creative and universal ones. However, when it comes to New Year's health resolutions, we don't often hear much about ways to help your bladder so here's a suggestion for you: YOGA! I In a study done at UCSF Medical school researchers found that yoga is better for your bladder than non-specific exercise and stretching, supporting other research on the specific ways we can help ourselv

These things will affect your bladder, not your strenuous physical activity

Exercise benefits always outweigh risks for virtually everyone. But the right type of exercise depending on what your personal health concerns are, is always critical. We advocate involving your PCP in these decisions. Very heavy and repetitive lifting can affect pelvic floor health in some women. In a study printed in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology July 2015 edition researchers from the University of Utah School of Medicine looked at the amount of life ti

Are you doing these things to prevent UTIs?

UTIs are still the most common infection we get. So what are we missing? 1. The most common bug that causes most UTIs, E. coli, is a bug that is commonly found in the colon.Our body has natural defense mechanisms that can break down. 2. Completely void when you urinate. 3. Keep your urine acidic, this is tricky, has to do with adding foods that cause this. 4. Valves of the urinary track need to perform as normal. 5. The white blood cells have to behave correctly. 6. Immune me

Bladder pain syndrome

For most women bladder pain signals a urinary tract infection. Especially suspicious for a bladder infection if the pain just began, or your pee is bright red with a bit of blood. Yetin some women the bladder infections just seem to come creeping back. This could be due to resistant organism infections, or other conditions giving you bladder pain, but not being an infection. Although most UTIs are due to the common bug E. coli, if the type of antibiotic you were given can kno

If you have been or are a smoker: here's a healthy way to help your vagina: MonaLisa Therapy

Smoking can damage the pelvic floor and keep the tissues of the vagina less healthy. Quitting can improve this, and pelvic floor therapy can begin to repair damage; but likely your smoking has changed your tissues in ways that need correction . We recommend smokers who are noticing weak pelvic floor or bladders consider the non-invasive treatment of MonaLisa Touch to repair the vaginal tissue damage that smoking has caused. Since smoking can cause urinary leakage by stripping

Fix the bladder and be able to bounce without a worry!

If you workout or do yoga at Hatha Yoga and Fitness, one thing you will hear a lot about is your pelvic floor. Prevention, prevention, prevention! Wet every time you go to the gym, and feel like you can't keep up with the pounding the barr, the HITT, or the cumbia and sala moves without being, well worried? Unfortunately those with bladder issues of leaking with coughing and sneezing, find it's even worse at the gym. Research findings indicate women who are incontinent limit

Botox – Not just a dewrinkler!

“Wait. I thought botox was only used to smooth out some of those wrinkles?” While botox injections can treat wrinkles, that’s just a fraction of their potential! Botox injections also help control your bladder, treat excessive sweating in some areas, and ease migraines. Additionally, recent studies have shown that botox can also help women with depression. A 2017 study found that when comparing injections of 30 U, 50 U, and a placebo (saline) into the arm, after 6 weeks, all

Overactive Bladder (OAB) and the fix

Women just run to the bathroom to pee too often have bladders that do not react normally to the signals of full and empty. Most women can't stand this life intrusion and want it fixed which is why they find themselves at their gyno office discussing whether they should begin medicine or get a surgery. 1. Speak to your gyno to find out if your symptoms are OAB. This is called the "overactive bladder" or OAB. Medically we say that overactive bladders have a "SUDDEN, COMPELLING

Birth control pills control UTIs

Hormones control our bladders as well as our hearts and minds, and other aspects of our body. And it's not just your hormones produced from your ovaries, it can be the hormones you ingest from soy or from meats, or medication. Women who have bladder dysfunction can be any age, any weight, any genetic background, although there are multiple factors that contribute. And it's now been found that there's another non-contraceptive benefit to The Pill: Women of child-bearing age wh

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