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EPISODE 27: OUR BIG A-HAS FROM THE FIRST SEASON

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This is our last episode of the season!

In this episode, Laurel and Sarah reflect on their top three takeaways from season 1 of the Movement Logic Podcast. You’ll have to listen to the episode to hear what they are! We also discuss:

  • How podcasting for the first time went for both of us, what was challenging, specifically.
  • How science asks us to hold ideas loosely and remain a student (rather than fact holder and disseminator of facts).
  • Why the language we use to talk about our bodies or our students’ bodies—and the re-education around using more positive, optimistic language—is so crucial to our ability as teachers to actually help our students feel better.
  • The problem with all-or-nothing type thinking when it comes to better understanding a topic or finding the truth.
  • Why publishing your learning process can be the best way to learn.

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EPISODE 20: PELVIC FLOOR IN-DEPTH WITH STEPHANIE PRENDERGAST, MPT

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In this episode, Sarah interviews Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Stephanie Predergast, co-founder of the Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center, about everything and anything pelvic floor related. Stephanie also answers your questions from Instagram! Here’s what we cover:

  • Understanding the mechanics and function of the pelvic floor and how it’s different than other muscles in the body
  • Why strengthening your pelvic floor is not always the goal and how it might make your incontinence symptoms worse
  • The difference between stress incontinence and urge incontinence
  • Why dyspurnia (painful sex) and vulvodynia (vulvar pain) are treatable but might get misdiagnosed as an ‘incurable disease’
  • When pelvic floor muscular dysfunction gets misdiagnosed as a UTI, depending on which kind of practitioner you see
  • The efficacy and safety of hormone therapy for menopause symptoms according to NAMS (North American Menopause Society) 
  • What is GSM (Genitourinary Symptoms of Menopause) and how is it treatable
  • Pelvic floor concerns for people with male genitalia, a chronically underserved population
  • Why people with low back or hip pain very often have an underlying pelvic floor issue
  • What are some signs that a movement teacher can look out for with their clients to indicate they may need to see a pelvic floor specialist (and a screening questionnaire included below)
  • What is the female pelvic triad and how teenage athletes may need help 

Reference links:

As the Pelvis Turns Newsletter

NAMS position paper on hormone therapy

Pique Health  for online care for pelvic floor and sexual health 

Poise Impressa for incontinence support

Speax by Thinx for incontinence support

Quick Screen for pelvic floor PT

PHRC YouTube page

Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center (they’re hiring PTs!)

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EPISODE 8: A PERIMENOPAUSE PERSPECTIVE

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Welcome to Episode 8 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel is joined by her friend and colleague Trina Altman. Together, Laurel and Trina discuss Trina’s experience with perimenopause. Trina shares her personal story along with tons of resources for women going through this change of life.

  • What is perimenopause?
  • Doctors have a tendency to minimize women’s suffering
  • Brain fog and hot flashes
  • Challenges women face when navigating the medical system
  • Finding a doctor that spends more time with you AND is evidence-based AND is current on the research
  • The Women’s Health Initiative and fear they created around estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
  • Weight gain and perimenopause
  • Scope appropriate advice for movement teachers working with perimenopausal and menopausal students

 

Guest Bio:

Trina received her training through STOTT Pilates® and is an E-RYT 500. She created Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed® to show teachers how to take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates in relation to modern movement science.

Trina has presented at Momentum Fest, the International Association of Yoga Therapy Conference, and Kripalu. She also created and taught a Pilates continuing-education course for physical therapists and was part of the faculty for the Brain Longevity conference at UCLA. She was the co-creator of Equinox’s signature program Best Stretch Ever, which utilizes the mobility stick to improve functional range of motion, body awareness, and total body strength.

Trina was a finalist in the Next Pilates Anytime Instructor Competition in 2017. Her work has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and Pilates Style magazine and her classes have been featured on Yoga International and Yoga Anytime. She is also the author of Yoga Deconstructed®: Movement science principles for teaching, which shows yoga teachers how to integrate modern movement science into their classes and is published by Handspring Publishing.

Reference links:

North American Menopause Society Doctors

If there are no doctors local to you, this website is all telemedicine North American Society Menopause Doctors: https://gennev.com/

Research on HRT and the risk of breast cancer

Estrogen Matters 

Menopause Manifesto

Dr. Heather Hirsch podcast on breast cancer and HRT

Join Trina’s email list and get free somatics sequences to use in your personal practice and teaching 

 

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EPISODE 5: DOES YOGA IMPROVE BONE DENSITY?

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Welcome to Episode 5 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this solo episode, Laurel addresses the question of whether or not yoga asana builds bone density, where the belief or claim that it does might have come from, and then concrete, evidenced-based ways to improve bone density, as well as how yoga asana fits into these efforts. Here are specific points discussed:

  • Where did the idea that yoga builds bone density come from?
  • Why is bone density important and why should we want to build it?
  • How do you find out if you have osteoporosis or osteopeonia?
  • Who is most at risk of developing osteoporosis?
  • How does osteoporosis happen?
  • How do bones remodel and become denser, stronger, or more resilient?
  • What activities build bone? 
  • When is the best time to work on building bone?
  • What are the obstacles to building bone?
  • Shoulder older adults lift heavy weights?
  • The LIFTMOR study
  • What role does yoga play in the conversation around bone density?

Reference links:

Twelve-Minute Daily Yoga Regimen Reverses Osteoporotic Bone Loss

Estrogen Matters

The Physio-Network

The LIFTMOR study

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