Optimize Pelvic Health

Optimize Pelvic Health Janet is a physical therapist who has a 10 year experience of treating orthopedic, pelvic floor and sports injuries focusing on runners.

Her whole body approach has helped numerous patients return to the activities they love.

12/10/2025

Worst exercise cue ever: “Posterior pelvic tilt.”

It feels like you’re engaging your core… but you’re actually destabilizing it, over-tightening your pelvic floor, and even irritating the femoral nerve (nerve in front of the thigh going to the knee).
This common cue tricks your body into working against itself and usually an anterior pelvic tilt is NOT the problem.
Instead of building strength, it creates tension where you don’t want it, deep in your pelvis.
Learning how to activate your core the right way can protect your pelvic floor, reduce nerve irritation, and finally make your exercises effective.
If your workouts keep making your symptoms worse, it’s not you, it’s the cue.
Let’s fix it.
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We work with pregnant and postpartum women with pelvic floor dysfunction to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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12/02/2025

The short answer Yes!!

Why teach perineal massage?

Because it’s safe, takes only a few minutes, and even if it only helps some people avoid tearing… that’s still worth it. When a technique has very low risk and no known harm, we don’t wait for a 100% success rate, we use it because the potential upside matters.

And reminder: perineal massage isn’t really a “massage.” We’re teaching patients how to relax their pelvic floor through breath, body scanning, and tuning into the muscles, not rubbing tissues like a shoulder knot.

Here’s what the research consistently shows:

Low risk: No adverse effects when done correctly.

Meaningful benefit: Fewer episiotomies and fewer severe tears (3rd/4th degree) in several studies.

Easy to do at home: A few minutes a day starting around 34–35 weeks.

High payoff: Even helping 1 out of 4 or 1 out of 5 people matters when the intervention is simple and safe.

Low risk + possible big benefit = that’s a yes from me.

So check in with a pelvic floor physical therapist. Make sure
it’s a relaxation practice: Breathwork + awareness helps muscles release, making the tissue more adaptable during birth.

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We work with pregnant and postpartum women with pelvic floor dysfunction to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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11/19/2025

Did he wash it?
Does he understand the analogy of using a hot dog in a bun or is it cause I’m a pelvic floor PT?
If this makes you cringe… that full-body clench is exactly what your pelvic floor does under stress.
A pelvic floor PT can help.
📍San Jose, Ca
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We work with pregnant and postpartum women to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms!

Click link in profile to give us a call.
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11/11/2025

If you find yourself in the ER because of a small Christmas tree 🎄 incident, make sure you contact a pelvic floor physical therapist after you get discharged.

We can make sure everything is going smooth down there!

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We work with pregnant and postpartum women to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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11/03/2025

💩 Bristol Stool Chart… but make it Halloween edition 🍬🎃
🧊 Type 1: Like Milk Duds: hard, separate little pellets (constipated!)
🍫 Type 2: Like a Pay Day: still too firm, need more fiber + water
🍬 Type 3: Large Tootsie roll: has cracks showing signs of dehydration
Type 4: Regular Tootsie roll: ideal form, easy to pass! 🙌
🍫 Type 5 and 6: Like chocolate almond butter: too soft, too mushy, your gut might be reacting to something
☠️ Type 7: Like chocolate syrup: time to check hydration, infection, or food sensitivities
Your p**p tells you a LOT about your digestion, hydration, and pelvic floor coordination. 💪

So… which candy are you today? 👀

If you’re anything but a 4 call a pelvic floor physical therapist!
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10/31/2025

No one wants trick-or-treat-and-leak season 😅💀.
If your bladder can’t handle a good scare, your pelvic floor muscles may be overworked or under-trained.
The good news? Pelvic foor PT’s can assess your pelvic floor and your whole body to find the cause of leakage and keep you dry, without endless Kegels.
Pelvic floor PT helps you enjoy Halloween frights (and life) without the surprise leaks.

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We work with women with pelvic floor dysfunction to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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10/29/2025

That spot he’s pointing to? Too high for the uterus!
Some cycle-related bloating is totally normal , hormones affect your gut and fluid balance.
But if the bloating is painful or persistent, it’s worth an evaluation by your doctor, a G.I. specialist, or a pelvic floor PT.

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10/22/2025

Most people have never heard of a levator avulsion, even though it can be one of the biggest contributors to prolapse after childbirth.
A levator avulsion happens when the pelvic floor muscle (the levator ani) detaches from the bone during delivery. It’s not something your OB is likely to mention, not because they missed it, but because there’s no surgical repair for it.
But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do.
🧠 Understanding how this injury affects support and healing changes how we rehab the pelvic floor.
💪 We can retrain surrounding muscles, improve coordination, and restore pressure management.
💡 Knowledge = power, especially when it comes to prolapse recovery.
👉 Watch the full clip to understand how we approach this differently at Optimize Pelvic Health. It’s not just about muscle strength, it’s about surrounding support and ways to improve pelvic floor awareness.

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10/15/2025

Trying to “fix” your rib flare by flattening your back? 🚫 That’s not the solution, it’s the setup for core and pelvic floor dysfunction.

When you flatten your spine to pull your ribs down, you actually:
❌ Lock up your diaphragm (hello, shallow breathing)
❌ Overwork your abs
❌ Create downward pressure on your pelvic floor

👉 Rib flare isn’t just a back issue.

At Optimize Pelvic Health, we retrain your rib cage, core, and pelvic floor to work together, not against each other.

🫁 Learn how to align your ribs so your core can efficiently stabilizes without causing injury.

📍 San Jose, CA

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10/12/2025

🚽 Going to the bathroom all the time?
Feeling like you can’t hold it or leaking on the way?
Pelvic floor PT can help you identify why it’s happening, not just manage the symptoms.

At Optimize Pelvic Health, we use a bladder diary and even provide a urine hat to measure how much you’re actually voiding.

These details help us uncover whether it’s:
Bladder volume 💦
Bladder sensitivity 💥
Urethra weakness ⚡️
Brain & bladder connection 🧠

💡 Once we know the root cause, we create a plan so your bladder can finally calm down and you can get back to living without urgency, frequency, or leaks.

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Click link in profile to give us a call.

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750 N. Capitol Avenue Suite C-8
San Jose, CA
95133

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 1am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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