STA141: ’Women’s Health & Lower Back Pain’ with special guest Michelle Lyons

In Part2 of this month’s ‘Focus on the Lower Back’, special guest Michelle Lyons, Women's Health Physio and creator of celebratemuliebrity.com, discusses how lower back pain in women can frequently be linked with pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, the menstrual cycle and more. Michelle has also created a blog on her website here summarising our 'women with lower back pain' chat. 

Other Episodes In This Series :

• Ep140 - 'Understanding The Core' with guest Owen Lewis, co-founder of Born To Move.
• Ep142 - 'Lower back Pain Case History Special' with guests Rob Beaven and Dave Eliott of 'The Back Pain Podcast', to be recorded live Tuesday 28th March 2023 

Episode Timestamps:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:10 - Michelle Lyons - From Sports Medicine To Women's Health
• 6:10 - Muliebrity: The Art & State of Being A Woman
• 7:00 - Only 6% of Sports Science Research is done on females 
• 9:20 - 20% discount on Michelle's Courses for STA Members! Details below!
• 12:20 - Studies show that 95% of women with back pain have pelvic floor muscle dysfunction
• 14:44 Questions that therapists shoud be asking female clients with back pain
• 19:50 The importance of breath work
• 23:30 In the Pilates era of 'tighten your core' there was actually a higher incidence of bladder leakage in Pilates Teachers!
• 28:33 Live Question: Is there a link between Hysterectomy and lower back pain?
• 31:20 Twenty percent of hysterectomies are unnecessary
• 33:40 Focus on Endometriosis
• 39:00 How soft tissue therapists can help current delays in diagnosis
• 45:00 Working with female athletes - tracking their menstrual cycle
• 48:00 Live Question: What are the indicators of a high tone pelvic floor?
• 49:10 The Coccyx Palpation Test to check for pelvic floor tone.
• 55:00 The Psoas: Traditional Over Focus
• 1:05:05 More information on Michelle's Courses and Social Media Links

20% Discount On Michelle's Courses - Valid until The End Of April 2023!
If you are an STA member and would like 20% off of any of Michelle's Courses, please email matt@thesta.co.uk or gary@thesta.co.uk 

Useful Links:

• Website: CelebrateMuliebrity.com
• Michelle's website blog expanding on this episode's content  
• Twitter: @ml_muliebrity
• Instagram: @michellelyons_muliebrity
• Michelle Lyons on Facebook
• Michelle Lyons on YouTube

Our sincere thanks to Michelle Lyons for giving up her time to be a guest on the show!

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