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Bethany Hansen, LLC

I bring experience and passion for all things pelvic health to help people achieve their goals. Location: Blooma (Minneapolis) or mobile in-home

04/07/2026

💗Adenomyosis Awareness Month💗

Adenomyosis is a disease of the uterus that is associated with painful periods, chronic pelvic pain, abnormal menstrual bleeding, infertility, and often coexists with endometriosis.

Pelvic floor physical therapy, in addition to medical interventions, with a skilled and experienced provider can help!

If you live in the Minneapolis, MN area and want to work with me, book a consult or contact me at www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

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03/12/2026

💛Pelvic floor physical therapy can help people with endometriosis in lots of ways!💛

🔹Education: what to know, what can help, how pain works in the brain, exercise and stretches, etc.

🔹Manual therapy: therapeutic touch!

🔹Referrals: who to see to manage non-PT symptoms

💡Want to learn more about endometriosis? Check out my blog posts “Endometriosis: Myths vs. Facts” and “Why Is Endometriosis So Painful (and what can we do about it)? www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

If you live in the Minneapolis, MN area and want to work with me, book a consult or contact me at www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

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03/05/2026

🤬Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women

🤬The average length of time it takes to get a diagnosis: 8-12 years

I continue to see patients for pelvic floor issues who have all of the signs and symptoms of endo, and have never been diagnosed or treated for this.

This year alone:

-As young as 16 with a 5 year history of severe periods, missing school, and vomiting or passing out due to pain. Doctors gave her pain medication (A LOT of NSAIDS) and never mentioned even the possibility of endometriosis.

-As old as 42, just diagnosed late last year, seeing me post-op excision surgery, with DECADES of having every symptom of endo out there!!!

This enrages me and is unacceptable.

As PTs we can’t “diagnose” endometriosis, but we already triage for signs and symptoms with our intake forms and verbal/physical assessments.

All of us need to do our part to guide these people to the right providers who can help with the non-PT part of managing endometriosis!!

What can help:
💛Refer to qualified endo excision specialists in your area

💛Refer to dietician/nutritionist/functional medicine who excels with people who have IBS

💛Refer to sexual medicine specialist for those with vestubulodynia

💛PT: manual work, visceral mobilization, internal work, nervous system down-training, education, etc.

Spread the word!!

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01/07/2026

Cervical Cancer Awareness Month!

Check out this podcast episode from You Are Not Broken with Dr. Kelly Casperson, MD

May 12, 2024 #264 Cervical Cancer, Birth Control, Vulvar Pain, Gaslighting with Dr. Andrew Goldstein, MD

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12/30/2025

🤦‍♀️If I had a dollar for everytime a pregnant person asked me this because they saw someone say it in IG….well, I’d be 🤑💰💵

NO! Doing kegels (aka, pelvic floor muscle training) during pregnancy does not make your pelvic floor “tighter”, delivery harder or longer, and they don’t lead to increased trauma to the pelvic floor muscles.

🚫This is simply not true.

That’s like saying that if someone does hamstring curls at the gym for a few months and gets their hamstrings stronger, that they will no longer be able to touch their toes. Not true - muscles can be strong or weak AND flexible or inflexible. These are separate properties of muscle function.

🧐In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhang et al. (2024), they concluded that pelvic floor muscle training proved effective in reducing the risk of urinary incontinence and the occurence of third-or fourth-degree perineal tears.

I don’t know how this myth started but if you believe it’s true, by all means prove me wrong and send me your source showing that pelvic floor muscle training leads to worse birth and pelvic floor outcomes.

I don’t believe kegels play a big role in pelvic floor physical therapy, but they certainly aren’t harmful for the average pregnant person to do.

👉Save this post, and if you see someone repeat this myth on social media, send it to them. We can only dispel myths with evidence-based information, and the more we spread the word, the better off more people will be!

If you live in the Minneapolis, MN area and want to work with me, book a consult or contact me at www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

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12/12/2025

A fairly recent Time magazine article discussed how destigmatizing issues people experience postpartum can be helpful. Celebrities are talking about their birth experiences and outcomes, and people we follow on social media share the good, the bad, and the ugly.

However, as they report in the article, “As two psychologists specializing in women’s health, we’ve recently come to a surprising realization: maybe all this normalization has a dark side. In our culture’s noble attempt to encourage talking about postpartum pain and illness, we have inadvertently normalized the experience of postpartum pain and illness”.

ACOG now recommends that physical therapists be part of the healthcare team for postpartum care, emphasizing the importance of pelvic floor rehabilitation for issues like urinary incontinence, diastasis recti, and pain, and encourages early intervention for optimal recovery.

However, this recommendation was initiated in 2018 - it’s now 2025, and many OBGYNS still don’t routinely refer to pelvic floor PT for their pregnant or postpartum patients.

What can help?

Spread the word about pelvic floor PT/OT to everyone you know - friends, family, acquaintances, social media groups, medical and alternative health providers, etc....

Want to learn more about what I teach people to prepare for vaginal birth? Check out my blog post “How to Prepare for Vaginal Birth” (link in the bio) or follow me for more!

If you live in the Minneapolis, MN area and want to work with me, book a consult or contact me at www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

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12/10/2025

💥Shout it out. We need better!!💥

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12/03/2025

You know this has happened to you!! You’re minding your own business, listening to a well-intentioned person (and highly educated, I might add) talk on a podcast, and BAM - they say something and you’re yelling “No!” and anyone close by starts staring at you…

Example:
PTs discussing a topic in which dry needling is mentioned as a possible treatment option.

Board-certified PT: “Dry needling is actually very similar to acupuncture”.

No, it’s not.

For the record, acupuncture is a form of Traditional Chinese medicine in which needles are placed at specific points to improve the flow of energy, or Qi, to improve health.

Dry needling is used to effect change in body structures and functions for the evaluation and management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions, pain, movement impairments, and disability.

Preliminary research supports that dry needling improves pain control, reduces muscle tension, and normalizes dysfunctions of the motor end plates, the sites at which nerve impulses are transmitted to muscles.

🤦‍♀️There will always be misinformation on social media and podcasts, and nobody’s perfect (myself included!). But as physical therapists (and other medical professionals), it’s our job to call out things that are untrue or misleading when we see or hear them.

Want to learn more about dry needling from a PT perspective? Check out my blog post “What does dry needling do and what is it used for in physical therapy?” www.bethanyhansenpt.com (link in the bio).

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Cummings MT, White AR. Needling therapies in the management of myofascial trigger point pain: a systematic review. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2001;82(7):986–992.

Kalichman L, Vulfsons S. Dry needling in the management of musculoskeletal pain. J Am Board Fam Med.2010;23(5):640–646.

11/24/2025

I can’t make this stuff up. Thankful she even sought me out after that experience. 😞

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever experienced as a patient or heard from a patient as a pelvic floor provider???

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