Integrative Spine & Pelvic Health

Integrative Spine & Pelvic Health We help women overcome pelvic pain, urinary and bowel dysfunction. My area of expertise is pelvic fl
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09/01/2026

09/01/2026

Pregnant? 🤰 Your pelvic floor doesn’t just need to know how to squeeze… it needs to know how to LET GO, too.

We’ve spent years telling pregnant women to “do your Kegels” — but birth prep is about so much more than making your pelvic floor stronger.

Your pelvic floor needs to be able to:
✨ Lengthen and relax
✨ Coordinate with your breath
✨ Move with your hips and pelvis
✨ Manage pressure
✨ And yes… contract AND let go

That’s why in Birth Prep Yoga, we work on positions and movements that create space through the hips and pelvis while practicing breath + pelvic floor relaxation.

Because the goal isn’t a pelvic floor that’s tight enough to win an award. 🏆😂

It’s a pelvic floor that knows what to do AND when to do it.

Save this for your third trimester 🤍 and send it to a pregnant friend who’s still been told to “just do Kegels.”

In Baton Rouge? Prep your Pelvis workshop and link for birth prep exercises in bio.

08/30/2026

Can we PLEASE stop telling women,
“It’s just part of being a woman.” 😵‍💫

Leaking when you sneeze?
“It’s normal after babies.”

Pelvic pressure or heaviness?
“Well… you’ve had kids.”

Pain with s*x?
“That can happen after pregnancy.”

Bladder urgency?
“Welcome to perimenopause.”

No. 🙃

These things may be common during pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause…

but common doesn’t mean you just have to live with them.

Somewhere along the way, women got really good at adapting.

We wear the pad.
We stop jumping.
We p*e before we leave the house.
We avoid s*x because it hurts.
We stop running.
We laugh about crossing our legs when we sneeze.

And then we call it “being a woman.”

But leaking, pelvic pressure, pain, heaviness, urgency, or feeling like your body just isn’t working the way it used to deserves a conversation.

Because the goal isn’t to make women afraid of their bodies.

It’s to stop teaching them to quietly tolerate symptoms that may actually be treatable.

So if you’ve been told, “That’s just part of motherhood” or “That’s just what happens as you get older”…

maybe it’s time for a second opinion. 😉

SHARE this with a woman who needs to hear:
Common ≠ something you have to live with.

08/28/2026

Save and share this if you or your best Lagree buddy complains of hip popping during Lagree.

Before you decide, “I guess Lagree just isn’t for my body,” try changing HOW you’re doing the movement.

If you tend to dominate through your hip flexors, certain Lagree moves can make the front of your hips work overtime — especially crunch variations, skaters and movements where you’re repeatedly holding or moving through hip flexion.

A few things I look at with my patients:

✨ During crunches: If you’re pulling your toes up and gripping through the front of your hips, try relaxing the feet or gently pointing through them and see if you can find more of your abdominals.

✨ During skaters/standing work: A hip hinge means your HIPS actually travel back. If you’re just tipping your torso forward while your pelvis stays forward, you may be loading the front of the hip even more.

✨ If you feel popping or pinching: Don’t automatically assume you need to stop the exercise. Your body may simply be telling you that the position, resistance, range of motion or strategy needs to change.

And this is something I tell my patients ALL the time:

I rarely want you to stop doing an activity you love — especially a great program like Lagree — just because one movement doesn’t feel good.

Modify the movement. Change the load. Work on the mechanics. Figure out WHY your hip is complaining.

The goal isn’t to avoid movement.

The goal is to make movement work for your body. 🤍

08/28/2026

You love Lagree… but your hips keep popping and pinching. 👀

Before you decide, “I guess Lagree just isn’t for my body,” try changing HOW you’re doing the movement.

If you tend to dominate through your hip flexors, certain Lagree moves can make the front of your hips work overtime — especially crunch variations, skaters and movements where you’re repeatedly holding or moving through hip flexion.

A few things I look at with my patients:

✨ During crunches: If you’re pulling your toes up and gripping through the front of your hips, try relaxing the feet or gently pointing through them and see if you can find more of your abdominals.

✨ During skaters/standing work: A hip hinge means your HIPS actually travel back. If you’re just tipping your torso forward while your pelvis stays forward, you may be loading the front of the hip even more.

✨ If you feel popping or pinching: Don’t automatically assume you need to stop the exercise. Your body may simply be telling you that the position, resistance, range of motion or strategy needs to change.

And this is something I tell my patients ALL the time:

I rarely want you to stop doing an activity you love — especially a great program like Lagree — just because one movement doesn’t feel good.

Modify the movement. Change the load. Work on the mechanics. Figure out WHY your hip is complaining.

The goal isn’t to avoid movement.

The goal is to make movement work for your body. 🤍

08/28/2026

08/26/2026

Plot twist: your pelvic floor does a LOT more than help you not p*e your pants. 😂

Things you may not realize can be connected to pelvic floor dysfunction:
✨ Hip or low back pain
✨ Pain with s*x
✨ Constipation or straining
✨ Feeling like you have to p*e ALL the time
✨ Leaking when you cough, run, jump or laugh
✨ Pelvic pressure or heaviness
✨ A core that just doesn’t feel like it’s working
✨ And yes… sometimes even that nagging tailbone pain

And no, the answer isn’t always “do more Kegels.” 👀

Your pelvic floor is part of a whole system—and figuring out why you’re having symptoms is where pelvic floor PT comes in.

Consider this your sign. 🧤✨
Book the pelvic floor appointment.

08/24/2026

What have you stopped doing because of your body? Before pelvic floor therapy, for me, it was working out due to the fear of my symptoms worsening. Comment below ⬇️ and tell me …..

Jumping on the trampoline with your kids?

Running because you’re afraid you’ll leak?

Lifting heavier because you don’t trust your core?

Playing tennis… going to that workout class… having s*x… traveling… wearing certain clothes…

Maybe somewhere along the way, you started saying:

“I just can’t do that anymore.”

But what if you can?

What if leaking, pain, pressure, weakness, or fear doesn’t have to decide what your body gets to do?

Pelvic floor physical therapy isn’t just about treating symptoms.

It’s about getting you back to your life.

Back to jumping.
Back to lifting.
Back to running.
Back to playing.
Back to feeling strong.
Back to trusting your body again.

So I’ll ask you again…

What have you stopped doing because of your body?

And what would it mean to you to get it back?

08/24/2026

How do I know if I have tension in my pelvic floor? 👀

A “tight” pelvic floor doesn’t always feel like tightness.

It can show up as:
• Pain with s*x
• Pelvic or tailbone pain
• Hip or low back pain
• Difficulty fully emptying your bladder or bowels
• Urinary urgency or frequency
• Feeling like you’re constantly clenching or holding tension
• Even leaking in some cases

And one of the biggest things I see in the clinic? Stress.

Your pelvic floor is part of your body’s response to stress. When you spend long periods feeling anxious, overwhelmed, guarded, or under pressure, those muscles can have a hard time fully letting go.

But stress isn’t the only reason.

Sometimes the pelvic floor is simply doing too much. If your glutes, deep core, hips, or breathing system aren’t managing load efficiently, your pelvic floor may start picking up the slack — and over time, that can contribute to tension and symptoms.

Past pain, injury, pregnancy, birth, surgery, and trauma can all play a role too.

And here’s the important part:

Tight doesn’t necessarily mean strong.

Sometimes the first step toward a stronger pelvic floor is actually teaching it how to relax, lengthen and let go.

If you recognize yourself in this, your symptoms may be telling you more than you realize. 🤍

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8460 Bluebonnet Boulevard Suite B
Baton Rouge, LA
70810

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