Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast — where real motherhood stories meet real science.
Hosted by Dr. Carrie Pagliano, double board-certified physical therapist, runner, mom of two, and internationally recognized expert in pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor, and perimenopause performance.
Whether you’re a mom navigating running with prolapse or leakage, a clinician supporting active women, or a lifelong athlete trying to stay strong through every hormonal season — this show gives you evidence-based guidance and real life mom stories without the fear, confusion, or shame.
Each week, Dr. Carrie brings candid conversations with researchers, clinicians, elite athletes, and everyday moms to explore what it actually takes to run, lift, jump, and live confidently through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond.
We talk about:
• Postpartum return to running & lifting
• Pelvic floor symptoms (leakage, prolapse, pain)
• Pregnancy exercise myths & safety
• Strength training at every age
• Perimenopause performance & hormone changes
• Mental health, identity shifts & motherhood
• The realities of being an active mom in a busy life
Real talk. Real science. Real moms.
Because you deserve to feel strong and supported — at every stage of your active life.
Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
REWIND // Doing all the pelvic floor work & still symptomatic? Your hips might be the missing piece — DR. ALISON GRIMALDI
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This is the single most-downloaded episode in Active Mom Podcast history… and if you joined in the last two years, you've probably never heard it.
Dr. Alison Grimaldi connects hip strength and stability to the pelvic floor symptoms so many women keep chasing in isolation. If you've been faithfully doing your pelvic floor work without the result you expected, this conversation reframes where you might look next.
Alison is an expert in hip, groin and lumbo-pelvic pain, Principal Physiotherapist at Physiotec, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland — with research collaborations that even include the European Space Agency.
We get into: building collaborative care, how the hip and pelvic floor may relate, what "strengthening the pelvic floor" actually involves, stress incontinence, using real-time ultrasound, and why she wants to "ban the clam."
This one's a foundational listen. As always, your own maternity care team and pelvic floor PT are your best guides for your body.
Want a follow up listen? Check out Ep. 210 with Dr. Jenny Lacross and Dr. Laurel Proulx on recent updates in understanding hip & pelvic floor anatomy!
1:00 introduction
5:19 collaborative care
9:30 dead butt syndrome
11:42 certainties of relationship between hip and pelvic floor
19:40 clinical use of real time ultrasound
23:09 biggest misses by physios
29:34 “ban the clam”
38:30 future research
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Website: (public): https://hippainhelp.com/
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.
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