The Benefits of Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with Dr Riva Preil on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) chats with Riva Preil about how pelvic floor physical therapy can treat bladder issues and so much more.

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Dr Riva Preil 03:29

People don’t sit around at the dinner table talking about their bladder issues, their sexual dysfunction, for understandable reasons. But then what happens is people end up suffering in silence for far too long, without knowing that help exists

 

Dr Riva Preil

So, to whatever degree people feel comfortable talking about these matters, it just helps to D stigmatize it. And the same way a person would get their shoulder fixed or their knee rehabbed if they have issues with those body parts, then the same should be the case with the pelvic floor as well.

 

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Dr Riva Preil

Kegels are fortunately making their way more into pop culture what people know about it, it’s being referenced in shows and magazines and people are aware. But what people aren’t aware of is that Kegels aren’t appropriate for everyone.

ABOUT DR. RIVA PREIL

Dr. Riva Preil PT, DPT, WCS, BCP-PMD, CLT ; is a Pelvic Floor Therapist, published author of The Inside Story, and Founder of Revitalize Physical Therapy in New York City where she treats men, women and children with various pelvic floor disorders. She is a Board-Certified Specialist in Women’s Health Physical Therapy  WCS ; and she received biofeedback certification in treating pelvic floor dysfunction from BCB-PMD. She is also a Certified Lymphedema Therapist  CLT ; through the Academy of Lymphatics, allowing her to treat individuals who experience upper and/or lower extremity swelling. Furthermore, she is trained in Craniosacral Therapy to help patients with hyper-sensitized central nervous systems and disruptions in cerebrospinal fluid flow.

Core purpose/passion: Dr. Preils core mission is to help people experiencing pelvic floor dysfunction and rehabilitate their bodies so they can lead a happy, healthy life. In her book, The Inside Story: The Woman’s Guide to Lifelong Pelvic Health, Dr. Preil details the changes that a woman’s body goes through at each stage of life, potential pelvic floor issues that may arise, and how to address them. 

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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT

As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.

My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.

So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”.

Mission: A Healer in Every Household!

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TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to the Healers Café. Conversations on health and healing with Manon Bolliger. A retired and deregistered naturopathic physician with 30 plus years of experience. Here, you will discover engaging and informative conversations between experienced healers, covering all aspects of healing, the personal journey, the journey of the practitioner, and the amazing possibilities for our own body, and spirit.

Manon Bolliger  00:15

So, welcome to the Healers Café. And today I have with me Dr. Riva Preil, and she is a pelvic floor therapist. Many of you probably if you are a bit like me didn’t know that you can actually specialize in this. And yet so many women have issues there. So, I was super excited to have, or I am super excited to have this conversation with you. You’ve also published a book called The Inside Story, and you’re the founder of Revitalized Physical Therapy in New York City. And well, I guess I think I’m gonna ask you, first of all, how did you come across this? Why did this become the thing that you wanted to do?

 

Dr Riva Preil 01:06

Totally. Well first of all, thank you so much for having me on your show. I’m always super grateful for opportunities to spread the wealth and share pelvic knowledge with others. So, thank you so much. How did I come across this specialty within orthopedics within physical therapy? Great question. I went to graduate school at Hunter College in New York City. And pelvic floor therapy was the type of thing that professors would reference and say, and if you want to learn more about that, you’ll take a continuing education class and learn more about that. But it wasn’t really covered in our classroom and our syllabi. And when I was in my third and final year of PT school, one of my close friends delivered her first baby. And unfortunately, she sustained a traumatic injury to her pelvic floor during her delivery. She had what’s called a diathesis pubic symphysis, which means the two halves of her pelvis basically separated. And she was using a walker afterwards, she was not doing well, and she ended up going to pelvic floor therapy and benefiting tremendously. And she said to me one day, you know, Riva it’s so great that you’re becoming a physical therapist, because you’ll be able to help women like me, and I was like, Um, no, I won’t. I know, hips, knees, shoulders, backs. I wouldn’t know the first thing to do to help with your postpartum-related issues. And she said, you know, you should really look into this specialty. It’s changed my life. Fortunately…

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  * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician, after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!