Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast—where motherhood meets movement, health, and evidence-based insights!
Whether you’re an active mom navigating pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or the challenges of peri/menopause, or a professional supporting women through these stages, this podcast is for you.
Join host Dr. Carrie Pagliano, a pelvic floor physical therapist, as she bridges the gap between research and real life.
Hear from leading experts, researchers, and active moms as we explore everything from running during pregnancy to managing pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti, incontinence, and the rabbit hole of hormone shifts heading into peri & menopause!
Moms, gain practical tips to stay strong, active, and confident through every phase.
Professionals, sharpen your knowledge with actionable takeaways to better serve your clients.
🎙️ Honest conversations, expert advice, practical takeaways, and lots of laughs—it’s the whole wild ride of motherhood!
Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
DR. SABINE VESTING -Postpartum Exercise & Your Pelvic Floor: What Really Happens with Running, Diastasis & Leakage
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Sabine Vesting, a pelvic health physiotherapist and researcher whose work explores how exercise impacts the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles postpartum. Her research dives into common symptoms like urinary incontinence, pelvic girdle pain, and vaginal heaviness, and how they affect daily life for new moms.
Now based in Ottawa, Dr. Vesting leads cutting-edge studies at the Motor Function Measurement (MFM) Lab, including research on running-induced urinary incontinence, pelvic floor responses after a single run, and the use of intravaginal devices to reduce leakage in female runners. She’s also writing a review on how to best measure intra-abdominal pressure during exercise.
We talk about:
-Does diastasis actually matter?
-Coning and doming explained
-Finding exercise you enjoy postpartum
-Urinary incontinence and new solutions
-Intravaginal devices to understand the pelvic floor in sport and running
Time Stamps
1:00 Introduction
6:05 work as a PhD
10:40 does diastasis even matter?
16:24 pelvic girdle pain after pregnancy
21:00 changes over the last 15 years
28:58 being comfortable with activity postpartum
34:21 looking at pain and causes
40:18 getting better measurements
51:42 intra-abdominal pressure
55:32 doing what works with patients
58:28 rapid fire questions
CONNECT WITH CARRIE
IG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/
Website: https://carriepagliano.com
CONNECT WITH SABINE:
Website: https://mfmlab.ca
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-vesting-aa4317135/?originalSubdomain=se
We are currently recruiting participants for our RCT, aimed at evaluating whether readily available intravaginal devices, such as off-the-shelf pessaries or tampons, can effectively reduce or eliminate urine leakage during running, enabling active women to remain physically engaged. The study offers a remote option and welcomes female runners from all of North America who experience urine leakage while running.
https://mfmlab.ca/portfolio-items/running-induced-urinary-incontinence-rct/
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.
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