Listen to your body’s signals. Is your prostate talking to you? Pay attention to any symptoms listed below that you may learning to live with. If so, please talk about it with your trusted medical team and inner circle. Along with aging, changing hormone levels, general de-conditioning, and lifestyle choices, it is important to be […]
Crucierous Vegetables and Food highs in Lycopene
Fact: Prostate cancer is the #1 cancer among men in the United States (National Cancer institute Your prostate has a message for you, “eat your veggies.” SelfCare is all about checking-in with your habits. Are you aware of your current eating habits? Does it support your prostate health? “A team led by Victoria Kirsh, formerly […]
SelfCare Success
Ignoring and enduring your symptoms is the OPPOSITE of SelfCare. Know that this could be you!! Yes, achieving your goals IS possible. Way to SelfCare! Therapy is a natural, conservative approach to SelfCare using your mind and body to heal itself through awareness of habits. Whether it is pain, leakage, or anything else stopping you […]
Mindfulness Moment: Ride the Breath Wave
What did you do for yourself today? Anything? Or was it just another day going through the motions just to make it to the end of the day? Try taking a moment or two for yourself the next couple of days and see how that changes your mindset. Sit quietly in a calming space, even […]
Sit to Stand Without Leakage or Urgency
When building strength in any muscle you must be able to contract and relax the muscle belly in order to facilitate adequate power to perform tasks. The same goes for your pelvic floor muscles. Specifically for a healthy bladder, strengthening the muscles that wrap around your urethral sphincter, to be functionally cut off the flow […]
TA Brace: Find your Deep Core
You CAN overcome overactive bladder symptoms such as leakage and urgency/frequency! To help decrease OAB symptoms, adequate core strength is essential. Specifically, learning how to engage the transverse abdominis (TA) muscle through total body stabilization. This low ab muscle connects to your pubic bone and has a direct relation to your pelvic floor. Building […]
July 22, 2021
Uncategorized Urge Suppression-You Can Control Urgency
A main symptom of Overactive Bladder is the sudden uncontrollable urge to urinate! This urge is usually controlled by our sympathetic system or our body’s flight or fight response. When we feel the sudden urge to go our body reacts to the urge with high alert, causing stress to the body, sometimes leading to leakage. […]
Got Urge? You Can Control it Naturally
Learning to live with it is not an option. This year we will be highlighting some educational topics from the course regarding OAB symptom management. At Motivate we strive to educate the community on their pelvic floor concerns and promote self-care solutions to manage their health independently. That is why we created an online education […]
Let’s Talk About It! Overactive Bladder
Our Let’s Talk About It Series is a series of videos where Denise Nichols of Motivate discusses topics with medical providers that most people don’t want to talk about. Like Overactive Bladder for instance. Dr. Sridhar discusses OAB symptoms, urgency suppression techniques, and mind, body, spirit approaches to bladder issue detection. Watch all this and […]
Integrative Approaches to Overactive Bladder
OAB Urgency can be controlled. To learn more about OAB, we had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Dr. Sridhar from Swedish American Creekside Clinic about collaborative care for an Overactive bladder diagnosis. In this episode we discuss Urgency and some techniques to successfully manage it. View the full Let’s Talk About It Series […]