271 - Pelvic floor health and myths, with Leslie Parker

<div style="font-weight: 400;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This week on the show, I have Leslie Parker joining me. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Leslie Parker has been a Physical Therapist since 2000 and has a special focus on pelvic health. As a pelvic floor specialist, she specializes in Women's Health including bladder, bowel, and pain dysfunction to include prenatal and postpartum care. She also works with women with breast and reproductive cancer in a variety of ways including lymphedema care. Over the years she has expanded her focus to include both men's and children's pelvic health as well.</span> <br />  <br /> <span data-contrast="auto">In 2012, she developed the Seacoast's premiere Pediatric bladder and bowel program, Pediatric Elimination Therapy (P.E.T.) at Wentworth Douglass Hospital. She then opened her own Physical Therapy practice in Eliot, Maine.</span> <br />  <br /> <span data-contrast="auto">Leslie published her first book, "The Art of Control; A Woman's Guide To Bladder Care" in June 2015, which hit Amazon's #1 Best Seller rating during the first week it was published. She did this as she was recovering from breast cancer, bilateral mastectomies, and chemotherapy.</span> <br />  <br /> <span data-contrast="auto">She treats women, men, and children with pelvic floor dysfunction which typically presents as bladder issues (leaks, frequency, getting up at night to pee, pain, BPH, etc), bowel issues ( leaks, constipation, IBS, incomplete emptying, pain, etc), and pelvic pain (vaginal, rectal, tailbone, endometriosis, IC, low back, hip, penile, etc). She is in the process of launching a community membership for women for "all things" pelvic floor.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contras