JENNY LACROSS- Pelvic Floor Injury Prevention Research

Active Mom Postpartum

Today I am speaking with Dr. Jenny LaCross, a certified athletic trainer and board-certified clinical specialist in women’s health physical therapy with almost a decade of clinical experience working with individuals with pelvic health, low back, and hip conditions. After completing her PhD in 2023 studying hip dysplasia in young active females, Jenny joined the University of Michigan Pelvic Floor Research group where she currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Drs. James Ashton-Miller and John DeLancey . She is currently studying pelvic floor functional anatomy and motor control of the urogenital hiatus. In addition, she continues to see patients at Move Physical Therapy in partnership with Light the Fire Crossfit in Monroe, MI and is an adjunct instructor for the DPT program at South College on their Knoxville campus.

We talk about:

-non-traditional path into academia

-research or the constipation CPG

-birth and pelvic floor injuries

-c-sections and pelvic floor injuries

-defining prolapse

-PT advice on social media

-paywall for research

-predicting birth injuries

-using pessaries successfully

-common misconceptions

Time Stamps

1:00 Introduction

4:57 pelvic floor injury in birth

16:34 prolapse without pregnancy

19:13 explaining prolapse

26:05 thought on social media

28:00 accessing the research

37:40 implementing research in the clinic

43:49 options after a birth injury

50:54 prolapse surgeries

53:45 navigating pregnancy and postpartum

61:00 educating without scaring

66:11 rapid fire questions

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