Facilitating Your Core Muscles through Breath

Despite its inclusion in most definitions of the core, few rehabilitation or fitness programs integrate the pelvic floor into strength training. When linked to the diaphragm, the pelvic floor acts as a powerful stabilizer of your low back, hips & pelvis ensuring efficient lower extremity & upper extremity mechanics. Evidence of dysfunction in this system can manifest across a woman’s lifespan: at puberty possibly contributing to non-contact ACL injuries in adolescent girls, during pregnancy and beyond as a myriad of musculoskeletal complaints and finally as balance and incontinence dysfunction in older women. What are the true core muscles? How can I engage them? What can physical therapy do to help me? What can I do to help myself? Join Dr. Ivan Huergo and Julie Wiebe as they answer these questions and discuss strategies for you to increase stability, decrease low back pain, improve breathing efficiency and help you move through life with strength and confidence.