All posts by Dr. Addie Holzmann
Pain Between the Sheets? Wine isn’t the Answer.
If you have sought help for painful intercourse and were told to “drink a glass of wine and relax,” you are not alone. What you should have been told is the truth: this is a common but treatable
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How are you positioned right now? Sitting? Leaning to a side? Slumped? Standing or walking? Tune in to where the pressure of your breath is going during inhalation (breathing in). Up into
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Have you ever considered how pressure affects your posture or posture impacts your pressures? Maybe not, but you will now!Pressure quite literally keeps us upright in many ways. Low enough blood pressure?
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Part 1: Breath & PressureConfession... I’m obsessed with breathing. I guess we all are subconsciously considering breathing literally gives us life, but the nuances of breathing mechanics are
Continue readingTo Birth and Back is LIVE
Thank you all who have already signed up for the free previews and also for those that have purchased.To Birth and Back is now live and available for purchase.I wanted to take a moment to share the
Continue readingBack Pain When Bending Over??
Does your back yell at you when you bend over to... pick up toys or kids... load the dishwasher... take clothes out of the dryer... clean the house... put away Christmas decorations??The
Continue readingTips For Pooping!
It's not the sexiest of topics, but it's an important one for pelvic health!Have issues with constipation, hemorrhoids, or anal fissures? Try these tips to help open your pelvic floor to move things through
Continue readingTips For Planks
Our SLAM challenge today was to hold any variation of a plank for 10 minutes...and these ladies killed it! Planks are a great way to train your core stability and learn how to breathe in order
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Pain with standing doing dishes or cooking?Many people do! Especially if you rest your pelvis on the counter which causes back compression and lets your weight hang through ligaments instead of using
Continue readingValue You
What do you value when it comes to your rehab journey? Do you value one-on-one care with someone who has time to listen to your story? How about a therapist that can work entirely on your schedule...
Continue readingYou Are Enough!
Someday these little humans won’t be sitting on me as I try to find my inner chi...But for now, I’ll do my best to appreciate this season and all its chaos ...From one mom navigating life with young
Continue readingDid You Know? Pelvic Floor
PELVIC FLOOR...How well do you know yours?? The pelvic floor is responsible for: spine and pelvic stability allowing AND preventing peeing and pooping sexual function (orgasms)supporting
Continue readingTips For Squats
KNEE PAIN WITH STAIRS....AND SQUATSIt’s likely due to compensated body mechanics from tightness in the low back and/or hips.To walk stairs with ease (and squat correctly), you have to be able to:Keep
Continue readingTips For Running
Almost 8 years old and still likes to trot along as I jog Running Check Things to think about:Where do your feet hit?Do you put more weight through one leg versus the other?Do your arms swing equally?Do
Continue readingTips For Lats
LATS...the intimidators LATS are a powerful muscle of the posterior chain, just look at their size!They often can become overactive pulling people into an exaggerated “S” spinal curve with increased
Continue readingTips For Hamstrings
Hamstrings! Key players in pelvic stability and core function!See how they attach to the sitz bones? Their attachment makes them a key player in rotating the pelvis back (posterior tuck, tucking
Continue readingTips For Asymmetry
#asymmetry... we all have it to varying degrees. High left shoulder Tighter right ab wallForward right shoulderTight right chestWe have two arms, two legs and look grossly symmetrical from the outside...But
Continue readingWhy NeuMe?
Why "NeuMe"? What does it mean?Neume stems from the Greek word "pneuma" meaning breath.Breathing is the most important thing we do...the only thing we do constantly from birth to death...and literally
Continue readingTips For Diaphragms
If there's one muscle you should show some love to and train well, it's the diaphragm. I mean, what other skeletal muscle is working 24/7 and responsible for keeping you alive?There's incredible power
Continue readingTips for Sitting
Why can sitting be so uncomfortable?!Because it requires good muscle balance in the core and pelvic floor and good breathing patterns for sitting to be comfortable.Here are some tips in the video above
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