Bøker av Jen Torborg

Your Pelvic Health Book is a guide to better understanding your pelvic floor, bladder, bowel, and sexual health, as well as changes that can occur during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This book contains tips for people with vaginas and/or uteruses through various ages and stages. This book is written by a pelvic floor physical therapist, Jen Torborg, who has a passion for sharing conversational-style general pelvic health tips.Topics include: Anatomy and physiology of the bladder, bowel, and sexual/reproductive systems as it pertains to vaginas and uteruses.The pelvic floor why it is important, and how to contract, relax, and lengthen the pelvic floor muscles to your advantage, how the pelvic floor is coordinated to your breathing, posture and movement patterns.How product choices can affect your pelvic health.Bladder health healthy bladder habits and how to treat urinary frequency, urgency, and leakage.Bowel health healthy bowel movement patterns and how to address bowel dysfunctions (such as pain, constipation, IBS, gas or fecal incontinence)Sexual health safe and healthy sex experiences and how to treat unwanted pain with sexThe physiology behind menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, and the difference between normal changes and treatable symptomsHow physical therapy and other resources can help before and after pelvic and abdominal surgery, and with pelvic organ prolapse or diastasis recti abdominis.

Pregnant or postpartum and wanting to optimize your healing and recovery after baby? Want to return to exercise without pain or leakage? Want to return to sex pain free? This book aims to empower you with healthy ways to return to exercise, sex, and other tasks encountered by new moms. This book is written from a pelvic floor physical therapy standpoint. This book covers diaphragm breathing, pelvic floor exercises, posture and more. This postnatal book is a quick, easy read for my postpartum mamas out there wanting to develop some healthy habits in their recovery after childbirth. You'll find plenty of options and variations to tailor your specific goals. There are practical and easy-to-implement ideas that will empower you in your postpartum body. This book was written to give you insight into what people mean when they say just listen to your body. It's meant to give you a way to listen to that voice and know how to modify or ask for help during the fourth trimester.Your body was meant to do this! The tips provided in this book will allow you to embrace this time after pregnancy and connect with your body in a healthy and inspiring way. Pelvic floor physical therapist, Jen Torborg, PT, DPT shares pregnancy tips based on research and insights from clinical experience. You can apply these easy-to-follow habits to have your best body after childbirth.In this book, you will learn about: 1. Rest and healing to guide you in the early weeks postpartum2. Returning to exercise in an intentional way3. Returning to sex pain free4. Optimizing scar tissue (perineum, vulva and cesarean scars)5. What's important to know about diastasis recti6. Posture considerations for mom7. And other postnatal questions answered about common (happens frequently), but not normal (healthy state of the body) symptoms that you may encounter (leakage, prolapse, pain, etc), discussion on breastfeeding, mental health and loving your body. This book also includes a FREE Your Best Body after Baby checklist so you can apply the healthy habits described in this book and monitor your progress.Are you ready to have your best body after baby?

Pregnant and looking to optimize your experience? Wondering what you can do to improve your outcomes during birth and recovery? Longing for more than 2 to 3 sentences on pelvic floor exercises? There's a full chapter! Find out what this pelvic floor physical therapist wants you to know to have your best pregnancy ever. Are you hoping to get practical, easy-to-implement ideas that make you feel empowered about yourself during this time?If you answered YES to these questions, then you would benefit from this book.Whether this is your first pregnancy or your fifth, this pregnancy book aims to empower you with healthy habits from a pelvic floor physical therapy standpoint.Sure, there are already pregnancy books out there that are filled with every possible detail you may want to know, but not everyone has time for that. Oftentimes those thick books get put off. This book is different from the others.This pregnancy book is a quick, easy read for my pregnant mamas out there wanting to start developing some healthy habits right now. You'll find plenty of options and variations for you to make these habits your own. This book was written to give you insight into what people mean when they say just listen to your body. It's meant to give you a way to listen to that voice and know how to modify or ask for help.Your body was meant to do this! The tips provided in this book will allow you to embrace this time and connect with your body in a healthy and inspiring way.This book is essential for all women who are thinking about getting pregnant and those who are currently pregnant at any stage. Although titled and specific to pregnancy, this book can be helpful for those who had their babies long ago or women who don't plan to be pregnant because most of these healthy habits are beneficial for everyone.Pelvic floor physical therapist, Jen Torborg, PT, DPT shares pregnancy tips based on research and insights from clinical experience. You can apply these easy-to-follow habits to have your best pregnancy, birth, and recovery. In this book, you will learn about1.Breathing: how embracing your breath can affect your body and mind including your breathing during labor and birth2.Pelvic floor exercises: how knowing your pelvic floor can improve your health3.Common vs. normal: Know the difference between what is common - a lot of people pee their pants during pregnancy and after childbirth, but leakage of urine is never normal. Treatment is out there if things get out of whack!4.Exercise: how to move in ways that feel good to you and improve your outcomes now and during recovery5.Sleep: easy-to-adopt strategies to improve and prioritize your sleep6.Nutrients: how to nourish your body and your baby with quality food and drink7.Posture and alignment: how to adjust your posture for your best pregnancy experience8.Self-care: why it's important to make self-care an approach and a philosophy vs. another item on your checklist9.Preparing for birth and recovery: perineal massage and stretching, labor and birthing positions including how to breathe, what to expect and do postpartum - why the 6 week check-up isn't a magic numberThis book also includes a FREE Best Pregnancy Checklist so you can apply the healthy habits described in this book and monitor your progress.Are you ready to have your best pregnancy ever?