Join us on Sunday for 🌸 A Celebration of Motherhood Market 🌸 hosted by @blendedbakesfamily at @nakama_studio_cincy! We will be joined by some amazing female-owned businesses showcasing their products and services with great raffles and prizes 🙌🏼. You WILL need a ticket (general admission is free, but still needs a sign up!) upon entry, see stories for link. Don’t miss the chance to celebrate mom life or the mothers in your life with a little shopping, free eats, discounts, several big raffle prizes, and all-around family fun. See you there! May 5, 2024 / 12-3 PM / @NAKAMA_STUDIO_CINCY 16 of your favorite small businesses will be there ⬇️ @ambivalentapothecary @anisha_kanakia_llc @shopasterandiris @blendedbakesfamily @busybeeloveland @chic_honeyboutique @whimsical_reminiscence @dilslaserdesigns @flair_flowerbar @honeylanesweets @jennyssignaturebakehouse @nakama_studio_cincy @linkd_cincy @queencitypelvichealth @magical.vacations.by.stephanie @cbl_crazyballoonlady Queen City Pelvic Health knows that if we take care of moms, we take care of families. We will be offering $50 off an initial evaluation to each VIP ticketholder and $25 off an initial evaluation to anyone who signs up at our table for our raffle. We have great raffle prizes and will also be giving away goody bags of samples while they last 😋 We would be happy to answer any of your pelvic health questions...nothing is TMI! #cincinnatipelvicfloortherapy #cincinnatimoms #nkypelvicfloortherapy #nkymoms #mothersday #celebratemoms

Karly (@physio.kmaines ) and Rakhi will be representing QCPH this Wednesday at the Cincinnati Go Red for Women Experience! We believe in whole health, and that means focusing on cardiovascular health as well as pelvic health. Will we see you there? #gored #goredforwomen #cincygored #wholehealth #cardiovascular

We love supporting our pregnant and postpartum clients! It can be a hell of a time, and we love being part of your team. Whether it's managing pelvic/hip/back/pubic pain, correcting bladder and bowel dysfunction, reducing pain with sex, managing prolapse non-surgically, teaching body mechanics for lifting or chest/breastfeeding, labor/push/c-section prep, family training, mobilizing c-section and perineal scars, facilitating a continuation of or return to exercise, or checking in with mental health...we have you covered! Book an evaluation online at www.queencitypelvichealth.com for our Fort Thomas, KY or Anderson Twp, OH offices today!. Referrals are not needed, but we may ask for clearance from a medical provider before utilizing certain interventions.

This is an important one. When I tell you I got chills upon receiving this text last week.... I had originally noticed a white plaque on the client's right inner labia/vestibule. I asked her to follow up with her physician as I suspected lichen sclerosis or lichen planus, both of which respond well to treatment if caught early, but can increase risk of dysplasia/vulvar cancer or vaginal stenosis if left untreated. He told her the tissue was a dry patch of skin. There are lessons here: 1) Trust your instincts. There should be no shame or guilt in seeking a second opinion. In this case, advocating for herself and not waiting until the next annual gynecology appointment to check in with a different provider may have been life-saving for this client. 2) Know your body! There are so many people who don't know what their skin and body look like "down there" and trust medical personnel (often overworked these days) to catch anything that may be wrong. Please save this post for the slides on how to do a genital self-exam. Knowing a baseline will help you know if something changes so you can report the changes to a provider. This goes for breast self-exams and general skin checks as well. Take control of your health and don't be afraid to advocate for yourself! If you think you may have lichen sclerosis or planus, please see your provider and check out @thelostlabiachronicles. Jaclyn's page is a wealth of information. *Text used with permission from client. #highgradevulvardysplasia #vulvarcancer #genitalselfexam #lichen #advocate #obgyn #gyn #gynecology

Fun Fact Friday! Pelvic health therapists treat the whole body comprehensively because they understand that the pelvic floor is part of a larger system that has to work together to function optimally. It's not uncommon for someone to come to us for pelvic floor issues and find themselves getting an old shoulder injury treated. It's all connected! Have we made any connections for you that surprised you? Did any of the topics we mentioned surprise you? #constipation #bowelmovement #relaxyourpelvicfloor #breathe #breathingmechanics #backpain #lowbackpain #hippain #happyfriday

*Employees were not bribed for these endorsements We already missed a week of Fun Fact Friday because we were too busy celebrating our ✌🏽 year anniversary last week! Still brimming with pride over everything this little practice has accomplished in such a short time 🥹🥹🥹 This week's topic, in continuance with the 2nd anniversary: Favorite Thing About Working at QCPH! I ran out of space, so here are a few more of mine: 💙 The chat! If you think coming to therapy will be like going to MD or dentist appointments, think again. It's casual, it's fun, it's learning, it's bonding-it's more like getting to catch up with your college bestie. I look at my schedule some mornings and think, "Oh shoot, I love everyone on my list today" because then I have to set my visual timer so I don't go overboard on chatting and accidentally dip into the next person's session. IYKYK 😅 💙 Making my passion my work. Turns out, geeking out about pelvic health is my biggest hobby, and I don't just spread the love to you guys. My 3 year old bumped his side yesterday while climbing out of his chair and said, "I bumped my pelvis!" He loves the skeleton and learning muscle names (pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi are our current works). He also practices diaphragmatic breathing on the potty 🙌🏼 💙 Treating clients long-term if needed without insurance constraints. Seeing people during pregnancy and postpartum, following clients with more chronic or autoimmune conditions, treating clients with flare-ups...all much easier when not waiting for referrals, insurance pre-certs, peer-to-peer reviews with insurance companies, etc. And we are able to treat the person & functional deficits in front of us, not just the diagnosis written on the referral 💙 Meeting the newborns who kicked me while I worked on their moms' pregnant bellies 💙 Seeing clients through multiple pregnancies, watching them develop into their new roles as mothers...there is a beautiful word for this: MATRESCENCE 💙 Family training sessions, where we invite pregnant clients to bring a birth partner in for labor prep so they know how to help. IG cut me off, but I have more! To be continued 😊 -Rakhi

We thought we would start a new feature here on the Queen City Pelvic Health socials...Fun Fact Friday! It may be something personal to help you get to know us, something about pelvic health, or something else totally random. We hope to make it last, but, you know, life gets busy sometimes, and clients and families come before socials. We decided to start with silly fun facts about our team members...our most random jobs! We all love working for QCPH now, but it wasn't always this "glamorous" (yeah, we know we deal in lube, vaginas, and rectums, but we keep it classy 😋). We would love to hear your most random jobs (and maybe even what you do now) in the comments! Want to know more about our work history and education stats? Check out our freshly updated website www.queencitypelvichealth.com (p.s. you can also book online from there!). #randomjobs #glamorousjobs #springbreak #cincinnati #northernkentucky #pelvicfloortherapy #spiderlab #underage #americangirlcafe #cowhearts

New Google review for @physio.kmaines! We are so lucky to have this brilliant and genuine provider on our team ❤️❤️❤️ Booking link on our website: www.queencitypelvichealth.com #pelvicfloortherapy #pelvichealth #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy #pelvicflooroccupationaltherapy #northernkentuckymoms #northernkentucky

🌸SAVE THE DATE | May 5, 2024 | 12-3 PM🌸 We are so excited to participate in a “Celebration of Motherhood,” hosted by Blended Bakes LLC, at Nakama Studio Cincy on Sunday, May 5, from 12-3 pm. Don’t miss the chance to shop with your favorite local small businesses. Motherhood mini photo sessions will be available for sign up with Whimsical Reminiscence, and we have an amazing lineup of vendors spanning permanent jewelry, fashion-forward clothing, fresh flowers, and so much more. That vendor lineup will be announced next week, so keep your eyes peeled and your calendar open. This will be THE event to attend as we celebrate motherhood and kickoff summer"ish" festivities with a little shopping and photo ops. - Tickets: https://blendedbakes.square.site/mothersdayevent

🎉🎉NEW OFFERING🎉🎉 The team at QCPH is constantly getting messages from friends and former clients to get referrals for physical therapists for conditions outside of pelvic health, for themselves as well as their spouses, siblings, parents, friends, etc. We appreciate your trust in our recommendations, and, honestly, we still think we are the women for the job! 🙌🏼😘🤷‍♀️ Dr. Karly Maines, PT, DPT, OCS, is answering the call! She is now offering general Physical Therapy appointments as well as Pelvic Health appointments in our Fort Thomas, KY office 💪🏽🦵🏾. Karly has been working in orthopedics since 2012, and obtained her Orthopedic Clinical Specialty certification in 2015. She is well-versed in all issues pertaining to neck and back pain, hip and knee pain, shoulder and arm pain, or other issues related to sports injuries or return to exercise (let's be honest, she won't turn her pelvic floor brain off for these appointments either-if you know us, you know we already treat head-to-toe for our pelvic therapy appointments!). Karly is trained in dry needling with/without electrical stimulation, cupping, manual therapy, neuromuscular re-education, exercise progression, and more. General Physical Therapy appointments will still be one hour long and one-on-one with your therapist in a peaceful, non-clinical environment-everything you already know and love about Queen City Pelvic Health and Wellness ❤️ We are confident we can get you recovered and returning to your life quickly! Book online with Karly today at www.queencitypelvichealth.com! 🗓 (Client photos used with permission...needles not required for treatments, they just happened to be useful for these clients 😅😂)

Hello current and former clients! This fall, Rakhi will be joined by Jenna, an Occupational Therapy Masters student from Lewis University, for 12 weeks as she completes a Level II Fieldwork rotation-her last stop before graduation! Jenna and her research partners are seeking participants for this study as part of their Capstone project. If you would be willing to participate, please reach out directly to her advisor, Allison Richardson, via one of the contact methods listed above! #occupationaltherapy #pelvicfloor #pelvichealth #research #womenshealth #menshealth #fieldwork #capstone

Relax, then relax again. #pelvichealth #bodyscan #relax