You might not immediately recognize the name Paul Hodges. But we can almost guarantee you've been taught his work.

And if you're attending PelviCon (either in-person or with our Live Virtual option) you'll get the chance to learn from him directly!

If you've learned that...

👉 The pelvic floor and diaphragm work together

👉 The pelvic floor is part of a larger pressure-management system

👉 Timing and coordination matter—not just strength

👉 The abdominals and pelvic floor don't function independently

👉 Intra-abdominal pressure isn't inherently bad

👉 Pain is far more complicated than simply "tissue vs. brain"

...then you've been influenced by research Professor Paul Hodges and his collaborators have spent decades developing.

And that's why we were SO excited to sit down with him. 

Paul is one of the most influential physiotherapy researchers in the world, and in this episode we get to nerd out with him about the science that has fundamentally shaped how we practice.

We talk about:

🔬 What we got wrong about his early motor-control research — and how complex science gets oversimplified when it reaches the clinic.

💨 Why pressure isn't the enemy. Paul introduces the Swedish concept of lagom: we need the appropriate amount of pressure for the task—not simply less pressure.

♂️ Why we can't just extrapolate female pelvic floor rehab to men. Paul's team has been investigating what actually creates continence after prostatectomy and how that should change rehabilitation.

🧠 Why we've oversimplified chronic pain. We dig into nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain—and why chronic pain doesn't automatically mean the tissues are irrelevant.

🤯 The problems with “central sensitization.” Including Nicole getting a little surprise when Paul explains the limitations of the Central Sensitization Inventory!

📚 How research actually makes its way into clinical practice—and why Paul believes research should ultimately change outcomes for real people.

And maybe our favorite theme of the entire conversation:

Complexity doesn't mean we throw our hands up.

Our job is to understand that complexity well enough to find the clinically meaningful pieces that help the person sitting in front of us.

🎟️ Learn From Paul LIVE at PelviCon 2026!

If this conversation gets your clinical brain firing, just wait until PelviCon.  (You can still get your tickets at www.pelvicon.com/virtual)

Paul is giving two presentations during the main PelviCon conference:

Beyond the Squeeze: Ultrasound and Precision in Male Pelvic Floor Care

and

Same Symptoms, Different Pain: Phenotyping Pelvic Pain in Clinical Practice

Your PelviCon Live Virtual + Recording ticket gives you access to Paul's presentations PLUS all 14 talks from our eight incredible speakers—and you have lifetime access to the recordings.

And there's still time to be with us in spirit!

🎁 Order before September 2nd and we'll ship you the printed, full-color PelviCon manual PLUS a PelviCon swag set.

👉 Get your PelviCon Live Virtual + Recording ticket (www.pelvicon.com/virtual)

About Professor Paul Hodges

Professor Paul Hodges is a physiotherapist, neuroscientist and professor at the University of Queensland whose research has profoundly influenced our understanding of motor control, biomechanics, pain, continence, breathing and pelvic floor function.

His work spans decades and hundreds of scientific publications, but what makes it so relevant to us is how many of the principles we now take for granted in pelvic rehab have roots in questions Paul and his collaborators were asking long before those concepts became commonplace. 

📱 Follow Paul on Instagram: @paulwhodges

🔬 Learn more about his research and academic work: Professor Paul Hodges — University of Queensland

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

When does a cash-based pelvic health practice actually need a fancy CRM?

For most of us? Never.

And yes—we've made this mistake ourselves. 😬

In this episode, we're breaking down what a CRM actually is, how it's different from your EMR and email platform, and why adding more technology often creates more problems instead of solving them. 

We get into:

👉 Why you probably already have a CRM (even if it's just a Google Sheet!)

👉 The difference between your CRM, EMR and email platform

👉 Why PelvicSanity went from a simple Call Log → fancy CRM → right back to the Call Log

👉 The hidden costs of tech stacking and automation

👉 Why you shouldn't build your business systems around a specific admin

👉 The question you should ask before adding ANY new software, system or complexity

The bigger principle?

Fight for simplicity.

Before adding something new to your business, get crystal clear:  What problem am I actually trying to solve?

Then ask whether this is really the simplest, best way to solve it.

Because in more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners we've worked with, we've never once thought:

"You know what's really holding this business back? They need a better CRM." 😆 

🚀 Want Our Actual Systems? Join the Accelerator!

This is exactly the kind of stuff we work through in the Pelvic Health Business Accelerator.

You don't need to reinvent your systems or spend months testing fancy software.

We give you the actual tools, systems and frameworks we've built and refined at PelvicSanity—including the Call Log we still use today—and help you implement them in your own practice. 

If you're ready to stop guessing and build a simpler, more profitable pelvic health practice:

👉 Check out the Pelvic Health Business Accelerator (www.pelvicptrising.com/accelerator)

🎟️ And PelviCon Is Coming!

We also give you a little behind-the-scenes glimpse in this episode at just how much goes into putting PelviCon together.

If you can't join us in Atlanta, grab your PelviCon Live Virtual + Recording Ticket.

You'll get lifetime access to all 14 talks, plus the ability to join us live September 25–26, interact and ask questions.

And order by September 2nd and we'll ship you the printed full-color PelviCon manual + PelviCon swag set so you can be with us in spirit!

👉 Get your PelviCon Live Virtual + Recording Ticket (www.pelvicon.com/virtual)

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

How can we help save the lives of our pregnant and post-partum patients?  What about doing more than just resolving their reported symptoms?

We can't wait for you to hear this conversation with Katherine Sylvester - she has spent her entire career challenging the status quo and pushing for better results for her patients.  

After experiencing postpartum preeclampsia herself, Katherine began asking how wearable data could help women recognize problems earlier, advocate for themselves and make better decisions during pregnancy and postpartum. That eventually grew into Operation M.I.S.T. and her work helping women use their own data to better understand their bodies. 

And that's just one part of this conversation!

We talk about:

👉 How Katherine's own postpartum experience led to Operation M.I.S.T.

👉 Using wearable data to identify concerning changes before they become major problems

👉 Teaching women to self-monitor and make data-driven decisions

👉 Why postpartum return to exercise needs to be individualized

👉 Her mission to reduce unnecessary C-sections

👉 Why we're barely scratching the surface of what pelvic PT/OT can do with scar management

👉 What happens when you stop complaining about problems and start asking, “What can I do about this?”

Katherine is bringing two completely new topics to the PelviCon stage this year: using data to address maternal mortality and better understanding and treating scars in pelvic rehab. We can't wait for you to learn from her! 

🎟️ Join Us for PelviCon 2026 — From Anywhere!

Can't be with us in Atlanta? You can still experience PelviCon LIVE.

Your Live Virtual + Recording Ticket gives you:

✨ Live access to PelviCon 2026 on September 25–26

✨ Lifetime access to all 14 incredible presentations

✨ The ability to ask questions and participate live

✨ The flexibility to watch and rewatch whenever you want

PLUS: Order by September 2nd and we'll ship you the printed, full-color PelviCon manual AND a PelviCon swag set so you can be with us in spirit!

👉 Get your PelviCon Live Virtual + Recording Ticket

About Katherine Sylvester

Katherine Sylvester is a pelvic health physical therapist, maternal health innovator, author, VBAC doula, founder of Operation M.I.S.T., wife, mom of two and postpartum preeclampsia survivor. 

Her personal experience with postpartum preeclampsia helped inspire her work using remote monitoring and wearable data to improve pregnancy and postpartum outcomes. She's also passionate about scar management and helping women feel informed and empowered throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

Katherine is the author of Pregnancy Principles and is also involved with 365 Vitals Partners and Operation M.I.S.T.

🌐 Learn more about Katherine, Pregnancy Principles, 365 Vitals Partners and Operation M.I.S.T. at Operation M.I.S.T.

📱 Instagram: @operationmist

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

What if the first clinician you hire isn't as good as you?

It's one of the biggest fears we hear from successful solopreneurs—and it's exactly what Nicole struggled with when we started growing PelvicSanity.

Because hiring your first clinician isn't just adding another person to the schedule.

It's changing your entire role.

Suddenly, you have to trust someone else with your patients, your reputation, your culture and something you've worked incredibly hard to build.

And yes...Nicole struggled with this enough that she eventually went to therapy to work through some of the control issues that came with becoming a leader. 😬

In this episode, we're talking about the mindset shifts required to successfully go from solopreneur to multi-clinician owner, including:

👉 Why being busy isn't a good enough reason to hire

👉 "No one will ever be as good as me" (and what to believe instead)

👉 Why your next clinician can actually enhance your reputation

👉 Raising the floor with great systems, onboarding and mentorship

👉 Raising the ceiling by helping your clinicians become incredible

👉 Why your clinicians don't need to be perfect on Day 1

👉 The fear that you'll invest in someone...and they'll eventually leave

Ultimately, the traits that made you a successful solopreneur—control, high standards, personal responsibility—can become the exact things that prevent you from building a great team.

Growing beyond yourself requires becoming a different kind of business owner.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Want to Grow as a Business Owner?

Check out the Pelvic Business Accelerator - the 6-month program to jumpstart your business and get you to the next level.  More info at www.pelvicptrising.com/accelerator

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career. And for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

How do you challenge long-held beliefs in pelvic health?  You ask better questions.

This week, we're joined by Gráinne Donnelly—pelvic health physiotherapist, researcher, educator, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy, and one of this year's featured PelviCon 2026 speakers. 

Gráinne has built a career around asking questions that matter, from postpartum return to sport and diastasis recti to compression garments and pelvic floor function. In this conversation, she shares what she's learning through her PhD research, why clinical curiosity should drive research, and how our profession continues to evolve.

In this episode, we discuss:

🔹 The story behind her new textbook, Sports Medicine and the Pelvic Floor: From Science to Practice

🔹 What her research is teaching us about compression garments

🔹 Why our understanding of diastasis recti continues to evolve

🔹 Bridging the gap between research and real-world clinical practice

🔹 How motherhood has shaped her as a clinician, researcher, and leader

If you're passionate about evidence-based practice—and want to hear from someone helping shape the future of pelvic health—you'll love this conversation.

🎟️ Learn from Gráinne live at PelviCon 2026

Gráinne will be presenting two sessions at PelviCon 2026 (September 25–26):

✅ The Science of Pelvic Floor Support Garments

✅ Distilling Diastasis: Current Evidence for Assessment & Management

Can't join us in Atlanta?

Grab a Live Virtual + Lifetime Recording Ticket and you'll get access to both of Gráinne's presentations—and all 8 featured speakers—to watch live or anytime afterward.

🎟️ Register at www.pelvicon.com

About Gráinne Donnelly

Gráinne Donnelly is a pelvic health physiotherapist, researcher, educator, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy. She is currently completing her PhD while leading internationally recognized research on postpartum return to sport, compression garments, and diastasis recti. She is also the editor of the textbook Sports Medicine and the Pelvic Floor: From Science to Practice.

📍 Website: https://absolute.physio/

📸 Instagram: @grainnedonnelly_absolutephysio

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads and one of the world's leading pelvic health podcasts.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution, helping more than 20,000 patients worldwide.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

If you've ever felt like you've "tried downtraining" and your patient still isn't getting better... this episode is for you.

We're also wrapping up our recent series on internal exams, the gold standard, and access to quality care before shifting back into one of our favorite clinical topics: downtraining.

The biggest mistake we see?

Thinking of downtraining as a single intervention.

In this episode, we introduce the updated framework from our completely re-recorded Downtraining Masterclass, including the three different "levers" of downtraining and how they help you identify why someone's pelvic floor is overactive—not just that it is.

In this episode we discuss:

✅ A quick recap of our recent series on internal exams & the gold standard

✅ Why "I've tried downtraining" usually isn't true

✅ The 3 Downtraining Levers:

•  Pelvic Floor Direct 
•  Pelvic Floor Indirect 
•  Nervous System 

✅ How to choose the right intervention for the right patient

✅ When to stay the course... and when it's time to pivot

If you treat patients with pelvic pain, overactivity, urinary urgency, constipation, or other pelvic floor dysfunction, this framework will immediately change how you think about treatment.

🎓 Ready to Go Deeper?

The Downtraining Masterclass has been completely re-recorded and updated with:

✨ Our brand-new 3-Lever Downtraining Framework

✨ Five in-depth case studies

✨ Practitioner-led & home program intervention guides

✨ Patient communication scripts

✨ AI clinical reasoning prompts

✨ Lifetime access to all future updates

👉 Learn more at:

www.pelvicptrising.com/downtraining

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — Over 1 million downloads and one of the world's leading pelvic health podcasts.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution, helping more than 20,000 patients worldwide.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

PelviCon '26 speaker Amy Stein has been one of the pioneers of modern pelvic health.

She founded Beyond Basics Physical Therapy, one of the largest cash-based pelvic health practices in the country, authored the groundbreaking books Heal Pelvic Pain and Beating Endo, and has spent more than two decades helping shape the future of pelvic rehabilitation. 

In this conversation, we talk about how far our profession has come—from a time when there were only a handful of pelvic health courses available to today, where thousands of clinicians are entering the field every year.

We also dive into:

✅ How Amy built Beyond Basics into one of the country's premier pelvic health practices

✅ Why collaboration—not competition—is the future of pelvic health

✅ What's changing in our understanding of endometriosis

✅ Why every patient deserves a multidisciplinary team

✅ The importance of mentorship and lifelong learning

Amy will also be joining us at PelviCon 2026 to present two incredible sessions:

📍 Endometriosis Decoded: What's New, What's Changing & What Matters Most

📍 Rehab After Excision Surgery

If you treat patients with endometriosis—or simply want to provide better pelvic health care—you won't want to miss these talks.

🎟️ Join Amy (and 7 other incredible speakers) at PelviCon 2026

Get your Live Virtual + Lifetime Recording Ticket and learn from the brightest minds in pelvic health from anywhere in the world.

📅 September 25–26, 2026

🎟️ Register now at www.pelvicon.com

About Amy Stein

Amy Stein, PT is the founder of Beyond Basics Physical Therapy, one of the nation's leading pelvic health practices. She is an entrepreneur, educator, author of Heal Pelvic Pain and Beating Endo, past President of the International Pelvic Pain Society, and one of the pioneers who helped shape modern pelvic rehabilitation. Learn more at https://beyondbasicsphysicaltherapy.com/ or follow her on Instagram @beyondbasicspt.

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career—and for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Pelvic PT Rising Podcast — 1M+ downloads and one of the world's leading pelvic health podcasts.

🏥 Founders of PelvicSanity — One of the largest cash-based pelvic health practices in the country.

🎤 Co-Creators of PelviCon — Bringing together the brightest minds in pelvic health.

📚 Authors — The Interstitial Cystitis Solution, helping 20,000+ patients worldwide.

🎓 Clinical Educators — Training thousands of pelvic PTs & OTs around the world.

💼 Business Coaches — Helping more than 1,000 pelvic health business owners build thriving practices.

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

Let's cut through the noise....If someone you loved needed pelvic floor therapy tomorrow, where would you send them?

🤔 Are there actually different levels of pelvic health care?

We believe the answer is yes.

The interesting part? Most pelvic therapists already act as though these different levels exist—we've just never had a common language to describe them.

Think about it...

If your spouse, your parent, or your child developed pelvic floor dysfunction tomorrow, who would you recommend?

Most of us wouldn't say:

❌ "Just find any ortho PT."

❌ "Start with telehealth or try an online program."

❌ "Here's a great Instagram account."

We'd recommend a pelvic floor specialist.  Someone who is trained and able to perform both an internal and external evaluation and hands-on treatment.

That instinct reveals something important: we already recognize that different models of care have different capabilities.

In this episode, we introduce what we're calling the Five Levels of Pelvic Health Care—a framework for thinking about the different therapeutic ceilings of pelvic health, from free educational resources all the way to the current gold standard of in-person pelvic floor specialists.

In this episode, we discuss:

✅ Why different models of care have different capabilities

✅ What we mean by a model's therapeutic ceiling

✅ The Five Levels of Pelvic Health Care

✅ Why every level has value—and expands access in different ways

✅ Why preserving the gold standard matters while thoughtfully increasing access

This isn't about ranking clinicians or criticizing different models of care.

Every level has passionate clinicians doing their absolute best for patients.

Every level has an important role to play.

But patients deserve honesty about what each model can—and cannot—provide so they can make informed decisions about their care.

If you've been following this series, this episode brings everything together and introduces a framework we hope helps move the conversation around standards of care forward.

There's only two big requirements for us:

1. Be honest about your therapeutic ceiling.
   Don't present your level as though it replaces—or is equivalent or superior to—a higher level.
2. Be exceptional within the level you've chosen.  No matter what setting you've chosen to practice in, strive to learn, grow and provide incredible care.

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career. And for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Rising Podcast – Leading pelvic health podcast with 1M+ downloads

👤 Founders – PelvicSanity, one of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices

🎙️ Co-creators – PelviCon, the first-ever pelvic rehab conference

📚 Clinical educators who have trained more than 3,000 pelvic PTs & OTs worldwide

💼 Business coaches who have guided more than 1,000 pelvic rehab business owners

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

To be honest, we never imagined we'd need to explain this. 
Fair warning: this episode gets a little nerdy.

Over the last two episodes, we've talked about why we believe internal pelvic floor evaluation remains the gold standard in pelvic rehabilitation. This week, we're answering the obvious follow-up question:

What do we actually gain from performing one?

For those of us who were trained to perform internal evaluations—and who use them every day in practice—the value seems almost self-evident. It's become such a fundamental part of how we think, reason, and treat that we rarely stop to ask why. It's also where our profession has focused its education, research, and clinical training for more than 40 years.

But recent conversations in our field have challenged us to step back and articulate something we've largely taken for granted.

So that's exactly what we do in this episode.

We break down the first principles of an internal pelvic floor evaluation: 

• How it reduces uncertainty
• Improves diagnostic accuracy
• Helps individualize treatment
• Identifies findings that might otherwise be missed
• Gives patients understanding and validation

This is why the ability and willingness to perform an internal evaluation - when clinically relevant and with informed consent - has remained the gold standard in pelvic rehabilitation for decades.

If you've ever struggled to explain why internal evaluation matters—or simply want to think more deeply about one of the defining skills of our profession—this episode is for you.

International Continence Society Paper

In the episode we mention a paper from the ICS that was extremely helpful in listing out many of the areas where we gain information, specificity or new information.  You can review the article in full here: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/3/?ui=2&ik=c052c6fa3f&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r7722291455026827186&th=19f9addb07427973&view=att&zw&disp=inline&acrobatPromotionSource=gmail_chrome-list

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

"Access to care" sounds like something everyone should support.

So why do we think it's become one of the most misleading phrases in pelvic health?

In this episode, we argue that we've been solving the wrong problem.

Because the goal isn't access to care.  The goal is access to quality care.

We discuss:

•  Why lowering the standard of care isn't the same as increasing access 
•  The difference between access and quality 
•  Why patients are still falling through the cracks despite having "access" 
•  The six biggest opportunities to improve pelvic healthcare 
•  Why raising standards—not lowering them—is how we truly help more people 

If our profession wants to serve more patients, the answer isn't diluting what makes pelvic health special.

It's building more clinicians, better businesses, stronger education, and higher standards. 

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career. And for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Rising Podcast – Leading pelvic health podcast with 1M+ downloads

👤 Founders – PelvicSanity, one of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices

🎙️ Co-creators – PelviCon, the first-ever pelvic rehab conference

📚 Clinical educators who have trained more than 3,000 pelvic PTs & OTs worldwide

💼 Business coaches who have guided more than 1,000 pelvic rehab business owners

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!

Is internal evaluation the gold standard in pelvic health?  We believe the answer is yes.

Lately, we've seen more clinicians claiming that internal pelvic floor evaluation isn't necessary—or isn't the gold standard of pelvic rehab. We don't think this is just another social media debate.

We think it's one of the most important conversations our profession needs to have.

We're going to be diving deep into this topic.  But for Part 1, we discuss:

•  Why this issue matters so much for the future of pelvic health 
•  What the pioneers of our profession fought to establish 
•  The strongest arguments against internal evaluation—and where we think they fall short 
•  Why "access to care" shouldn't mean lowering the standard of care 
•  Why extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence 

(Also, the caveat we shouldn't need....Every internal evaluation should be clinically appropriate and performed only with informed patient consent.  Of course.)

Instead, this episode asks a bigger question:  What should the gold standard actually be for pelvic rehab?

About Nicole & Jesse Cozean

Pelvic health is hard. We want everyone in this field to have a joyful, impactful career. And for business owners to build something that truly works for them.

🎙️ Rising Podcast – Leading pelvic health podcast with 1M+ downloads

👤 Founders – PelvicSanity, one of the nation's leading cash-based pelvic health practices

🎙️ Co-creators – PelviCon, the first-ever pelvic rehab conference

📚 Clinical educators who have trained more than 3,000 pelvic PTs & OTs worldwide

💼 Business coaches who have worked with more than 1,000 pelvic rehab business owners

Get in Touch!

Learn more at www.pelvicptrising.com, follow Nicole @nicolecozeandpt (www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt) or reach out via email ([email protected]).

Check out our Clinical Courses, Business Resources and learn more about us at Pelvic PT Rising...Let's Continue to Rise!