Larry Nassar Pelvic Floor Therapy

Before we get started if you want to better understand the anatomy of the pelvic floor check out this post by my friend and colleague tracy sher.

Larry nassar pelvic floor therapy.

Larry nassar and and what is now known to be over a 150 young female athletes. Nassar in court in. Once a national women s team doctor for usa gymnastics and a highly regarded physician at michigan state university nassar is now entering the final days of his sentencing hearing after more than 150 young women many of them current or former gymnasts accused him of sexual. In pelvic pain in the news tags pelvic floor sexual abuse pelvic physical therapy gymnast gymnastics back pain hip pain internal treatment vaginal informed consent larry nassar jennie s retreat to your root experience.

But nassar s victims have described an environment antithetical to standard pelvic physical therapy practices lora mize a physical therapist specializing in abdominal and pelvic health wrote. Moments of realness and acceptance yoga for the pelvic floor and deepening your sense of safety. But not in larry nassar s hands. This post was inspired by my previous blog posted in february 2017 about the sexual abuse cases involving dr.

With regard to larry nassar it is a matter of some concern if the los angeles times article is accurate that michigan state university s college of osteopathic medicine from which nassar graduated with a doctorate in osteopathic medicine in 1993 still teaches unusual manipulations including intravaginal manipulation and that the american osteopathic association approves of. A form of physical therapy called pelvic floor physical therapy uses internal vaginal soft tissue manipulation to relieve. In light of the recent sentencing of nassar i have been contacted by multiple organizations and individuals asking me for clarification about what pelvic floor pt actually is.