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Pelvic Potential Physical Therapy

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Specialty Clinic in Santa Cruz, CA focused on improving pelvic floor function integrated with whole body wellness.

Conditions treated include incontinence, pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, pain with s*x, diastasis recti,

04/19/2026

Leaking with downhill running or walking? There are many things that could cause this, but here are two things you can try:

1.). Lean forward a bit more from your ankles and try to have your feet land under your body (instead of in front of you). This lessens the forces traveling up to your pelvic floor!

2.). Soften your tailbone and butt bones! These three bony structures form a triangle around the back half of your pelvic floor. UNCLENCH YOUR A**S (ready to trademark that phrase and put it on billboards everywhere 😜)!

There are many other things that can contribute, so if this is happening to you, reach out to a pelvic PT near you (or reach out and I can help you find one).

Here’s to this spring and beyond!!

03/30/2026

I am endlessly grateful for the incredible mentorship I have had in PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) and always so happy when I have an opportunity to pass it on. Last weekend was my first PNF class for the and we had a blast!

Some of the magic of this course includes:

✨Teaching our patient’s shoulder blades to move how they truly were designed to move

✨Integrating the upper and lower body to work together for optimal core function and improved spine mechanics

✨Using the power of the hip muscles to bring on better use of the abdominal, back, diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles

✨Making every part of the gait cycle more efficient (aka: helping people walk/run with more power and less dysfunctional stress on their bodies)

✨ Connecting shoulders to shoulder blades to core muscles AND feet to legs to hips to pelvis to core muscles too! And connecting it all together too of course!

✨Seeing how doing the things lead to increases in range of motion in seemingly unrelated body parts (like increased cervical rotation after using the hips to facilitate the core muscles or increased hip internal rotation after normalizing scapula function👀👀), decreasing neural tension, improving joint mobility and increasing strength

I always become a better physical therapist by teaching, and I went back to the clinic this week so fired up. So thankful to all of the incredible physical and occupational therapists who brought so much great energy!

Finally, it becomes more apparent to me every time I teach how valuable this work is in the field of pelvic floor physical therapy. I am dreaming of a 2027 class of all pelvic floor therapists… Can we make this happen?!

03/03/2026

Hard to figure out how to operate your pelvic floor muscles? Try this OCEAN FLOW cue!

First, our profession told everyone to do “kegels”. Then, we told you to stop doing kegels and learn to let your pelvic floor muscles relax. What do I think? Pelvic floor muscle awareness, namely being able to BOTH contract and relax different parts of it can help SO many people!

Let me know if the 🌊🌊🌊 idea helps!

06/27/2024

Still reflecting on the most ENERGIZING, SYMBIOTIC, HARD WORKING group I had the pleasure of teaching PNF to on behalf of the at . The more I study PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) the more literal magic I feel in it and genius I see in it. FOREVER grateful for my mentors at where I spent almost 5 years, and for pushing it further (and for their personal mentorship and lastly, to all of my son’s teachers!! If you are in a teaching capacity, do whatever you can to observe awesome elementary school teachers!! Teaching to every level, maintaining a sense of calm, conveying necessary information and making sure kids still “like coming to school”. That to me sums up what I want in an instructor and have worked really hard to emulate them!

Many grad programs are moving away from teaching it in schools after a (imo VERY poorly written and not well researched) opinion paper came out from the neuro section at APTA claiming that manual skills weren’t necessary for motor control training. I wish every one of the people responsible for that paper, the heads of all PT programs and anyone with similar thoughts could be in my classroom, because they would walk away believing in the power of this work. I used to give up 4 days of patient care, pay for childcare and drive up to San Francisco every fall to volunteer to teach in my old grad program and due to this paper, we have not been invited back (students for decades said our class was the best part of the neuro class and some of the only manual skills they were taught).

PNF is learned like a package from Etsy, not amazon: it takes a lot of practice and dedication, but it’s fu€king worth it. It “turns on” muscles that were not as engaged, it connects extremities to the core, it mobilizes joints, soft tissues, neurovascular structures and viscera. It feels good because it taps into our DNA and how we were designed to move and feel to survive. It will always be my first PT love and the foundation of everything I do♥️

04/15/2024

My #1 favorite and my OWN mama is 70 today! She is the favorite person of so many people, especially her family, grandchildren and the children that she has cared for at her LEGENDARY preschool, Rocking Horse Ranch for the past almost 40 years! My mom has taught me so many things:
✨how to love big
✨how to expect the best out of people
✨how to look for creative solutions
✨how to trust your intuition
✨the power of how moving your body makes you feel
✨how to walk through life with enthusiasm
✨how to see beauty existing all around you all the time.

She has overcome so much in her life and done so many big things that ripple out to so many people. It is an honor to be her daughter and I try to pass her light on all the time.

📸: and

03/28/2024

I was talking to a new mom the other day and told her that the only thing I regret from the kids being babies was not taking more time for myself. Fast forward to today with a 5.5 and 8 year old! Mama had track practice and Dada had to work late so to the track during dinner time the boys would go! I basically did extra intervals racing around my house to make dinner and pack all the things we needed. And then it started raining. So I added two beach chairs to the car and away we went. I almost turned around a gazillion times. Was it better for them to be home? Was I putting myself first at their expense? Fast forward to Mama getting an EPIC workout, the boys happily playing under an overhang before watching a movie on a tablet as soon as their watch hit the agreed upon movie starting time and then the rain cleared up enough for them to run around the field and tackle football dummies. Driving home they said it was the best night! And even if it wouldn’t have been their best night, they deserve a mom who has harnessed the joy from having HER best night. So maybe you don’t want to do something as unhinged 🤣🤣as dragging your kids to the track in the rain, but take that extra few minutes to put yourself first. Eat some of those expensive out of season berries instead of giving them all to your kids. Take a 10 minute walk in the morning. Let them watch that extra show so you can take a shower. You are doing a good job🫶♥️🫶

03/27/2024

is one of my faves muses in the physical therapy space and just one of my favorite people in general! Having the opportunity to collaborate with her before she got pregnant, during pregnancy and postpartum with Sophia was such a ride! We had a lofty goal: get her through pregnancy and to the start line of the Olympic marathon trials after birth, healthy, and strong. We LOVED having this conversation with on her epic podcast “Active Mom Postpartum” talking all about that journey! Hopefully some great take home points whether you are pregnant, post partum or a practitioner who works with those populations! Also, shout out to the whole “Team Steph” who are SO great to work with: and of course

03/09/2024

When we feel seen, loved, supported and energized, we go out into the world more able to use our unique gifts to change it for the better. When we hold a mirror up to other people and say “THIS is who you are and there is so much awesomeness here” they see it a little more themselves. When we make space to move for the sake of it just feeling good, we claim our right to pleasure, not just existence. When we surround ourselves with people who add life to every room they enter, we are all lifted up! Still not over the incredible energy .t.madison brought to an incredible morning of yoga at stadium with !
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02/23/2024

Best squad cue you probably have never heard? “RELAX YOUR A**S”!!!! Seriously, hear me out. So many of my patients are squatting while tight gripping through the back half of their pelvic floor, thinking they are “activating their glutes”. Also, some are just guarding through their pelvic floor, unconsciously, while keeping their pelvis tucked under. Some are even doing this thinking they are doing a good thing and “protecting their back”. Many of these patients are also struggling with pelvic floor dysfunction of some kind.

Your pelvic floor should be lengthening as you go into a squat! Sometimes, if you think about this simple cue of letting your a**s fully RELAX AND OPEN as you go down, it clears up other parts of your squatting pattern that might not be serving your body without having to think about a gazillion cues! Try it and let me know how it works! here’s to booties that work and pelvic floor as that can take a break!

02/14/2024

Just finished “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” by and I can’t recommend it enough for both healthcare workers AND all humans. Dr. Blackstock wove together her personal story (her mother was a physician, as is her twin sister) with a meticulous history of how racism affects health outcomes.

Things that stood out:

✨How f$&ked up the Flexner Report was: TLDR is that it shut down 5 out of 7 HBU Med Schools and we would have so many more black physicians if it hadn’t happened. Research shows that having a black healthcare team improves healthcare outcomes and saves lives, so it is a huge loss for our country.

✨How her grandmother went through nursing school as a single mom to 6 kids and how her mother recognized THAT as a huge achievement (on par with the Nobel prizes won by the parents of other med school classmates…as a mom, I’m ALSO more impressed by her grandmother than by Nobel prize winners as well)!!!

✨The HUGE miscarriage disparities between black and white women before 20 wks

✨Example after example of a the history of mistreatment of black people through a medical lens in our country…too many to name, but SO important to read

✨How important black owned and operated free standing birth centers are to communities, especially given that these communities have had their trust in medical institutions betrayed so many times. SO lucky to have so many amazing midwife/doula/PT colleagues in this space and we need more ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you and congrats on making it to the bestseller list!!! Order her book yesterday team…you will love it♥️

Address

6233 Soquel Drive Suite E
Aptos, CA
95003

Telephone

+18312198370

Website

http://www.pelvicpotential.com/

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