Navigating Pelvic Floor Problems in Equestrian Sport & CrossFit: Strength, Strategy & Support — with TERESA WASER

Send us Fan MailToday I speak with Teresa Waser, a passionate educator driven to help healthcare and fitness professionals reignite their curiosity, challenge what they believe, and strive towards a truly biopsychosocial approach. She developed TIIPPSS-FC, a framework for creating change in how we help those with pain, pelvic health issues, and/or performance concerns. Teresa is a pelvic health and orthopedic physiotherapist, based out of RX Physiotherapy in Leduc, Canada, and has previously coached running, as well as CrossFit for kids through to older adults. She blends her experiences as physio, coach, and educator to help empower clinicians and clients alike to redefine their possible.  Teresa is also a mom of 3, including a set of twins.  She loves traveling, horseback riding, and lifting heavyish barbells repeatedly  We talk about: -getting into CrossFit -being active with diastases recti -embracing uncertainty -sharing the journey -challenging what’s possible -avoiding the “should” and “shouldn’t” -growing up riding horses -postpartum considerations for riders  Time Stamps 1:00 introduction 2:05 early days of CrossFit 7:30 the affects of diastases recti 12:50 the desire to learn 17:55 being open about your experience 22:50 postpartum and CrossFit 29:30 honoring where each person is on their journey 32:04 riding horses and postpartum correlations 42:48 rapid fire questions   CONNECT WITH CARRIE IG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/ Website: https://carriepagliano.com  CONNECT WITH THERESA IG: https://www.instagram.com/rxphysio/ Website: https://rxphysiotherapy.com/  Teresa teaches both live online and face-to-face course options. Courses include TIIPPSS-FC: Reframing our Approach to Pain, Pelvic Health and Performance (both live online and face-to-face Masterclass versions), and Beyond the Pelvis: Exercise for the Whole Body and Everyday Person (live online), and others You can find her most up-to-date course listing here: https://rxphysiotherapy.com/courses/  For Teresa's online self-paced seminar on "Pelvic Health in Equestrians" that was mentioned in the podcast, you can find that here: https://mypteducation.com/courses/pelvic-health-and-the-equestrian/The Active Mom Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond for active moms & the professionals who help them in their journey.  This show has been a long time in the making!   You can expect conversation with moms and professionals from all aspects of the industry.   If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST!  If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)