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Pelvic PT Rising
Helping pelvic physical therapists improve as clinicians, in their careers or business, and their lives. Hosted by Dr. Nicole Cozean and Jesse Cozean, the founders of PelvicSanity physical therapy and the Pelvic PT Huddle, the podcast explores all aspects of pelvic physical therapy. You'll find the clinical pearls that Dr. Nicole teaches in her continuing education courses, the business and career advice that catapulted PelvicSanity into one of the largest cash-based physical therapy practices…
Episodes
- Pelvic PT Rising
Handling a Wait List (As An Employee or Biz Owner)
Many of us are dealing with more patients than we can handle. On one hand, this is great - a sign of our growing awareness and more patients getting the help…
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Do You Need a Cheerleader or Coach? Finding Your Support System
What kind of support system do you have as a clinician? As a business owner? One of the most important aspects in business success is your support system. Do…
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Sarah Duvall Interview: Creating Change That Lasts
How can we create lasting change for patients? That's just one of the topics we explore with Sarah Duvall, our guest on today's podcast and PelviCon speaker!…
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Getting More Practical with Your Patients
How can we get more practical with our patients? Are you ever guilty of using 'PT language' with your patients? Overprescribing on your home exercise programs?…
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The Medical Diagnosis Is Not YOUR Diagnosis
Should your patient's medical diagnosis - received from their physician - impact your evaluation or treatment? First of all....how often is their medical…
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Is My Clinical Experience "Enough"?
How much clinical experience do you need to start a business? The answer might surprise you. Many practitioners are held back from starting their own practice…
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Case Report on Chronic Prostatitis: Assess, Don't Guess
In this case report of a patient with chronic prostatitis, we go through his case history and how he saw two pelvic PTs without relief. The biggest common…
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Do I Need a Longer Eval Time?
What length of time is appropriate for an initial evaluation? We really feel the minimum length for an eval is one hour. If you're in a setting where that…
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Your Eval Isn't One Visit
Ever feel rushed, harried, or that you can't get through everything you'd like during your initial evaluation? It's not possible finish a thorough evaluation…
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No Such Thing as a Perfect Job
As both an employee and employer, it's important to realize there's no such thing as a perfect job. We want everyone working in pelvic health to be happy and…
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Does Your Patient Know You Can Get Them Better?
It may seem like a simple question, but it's something we often overlook. Does our patient really know that we can get them better? Have we said it explicitly?…
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You Won't HAVE Time In Your Business Until You MAKE Time in Your Business
Are you working more in your business than you'd like? Longer hours? Still thinking about things (or working on them) when you go home for the day? Perhaps the…
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Preserving Your Body as a Pelvic Therapist
We have physically demanding jobs. If we want to have long, healthy careers we have to take care of ourselves (and not just our patients!). We can often…
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10 Common Mistakes We Make in Business
We all make mistakes in business. It's inevitable. But you don't have to make all the mistakes yourself! And if you are making one of these, you can always…
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New IC Guidelines: A Unique Opportunity for Our Field!
The American Urological Association just announced new Guidelines for the treatment of interstitial cystitis. It's the first update in 7 years, and it's big…
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Treat Your Career as an Investment
How can we make better decisions in our job choices, our con-ed courses and/or our business? Often we get stuck in fear - afraid to change, afraid to make big…
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Accepting Feedback as a Practitioner, Employee and Clinic Owner
How good are we at actually accepting feedback? Or criticism? How we handle these conversations has major implications for our relationships with patients…
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"Convincing" Patients to Come to a Cash-Based Clinic
Why would a patient ever want to spend money at a cash practice when they can use in-network insurance benefits? This question is the cornerstone of a…
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Getting $#!t Done: 3 Tips to be More Productive
How do we become more productive (especially when starting our own practice)? It's a huge challenge for many pelvic health professionals, and one of the first…
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Making Your Job Work For You: The Grass Isn't Always Greener
How do make the place you work the best possible place for you? Where you can grow, thrive and be happy coming into work? Because the grass isn't always…
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Beyond Compensation: Finding the Right Job
I want every pelvic rehab practitioner to be really happy where they practice! We have so many more opportunities and options than when I was starting out in…
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Freedom from Student Loan Debt: An Interview with Travis Hornsby of Student Loan Planner
Student loan debt can feel crippling. We can postpone marriages and starting a family, saving for retirement, buying a home, working at a job we don't…
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Setting Expectations For Your Patients
Should we really be expecting our patients to improve in 6-8 visits? Especially when we often believe there's no such thing as a 'simple' pelvic floor patient?…
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What To Sell At Your Clinic?
What (if anything) should your clinic be selling to patients? In this 'sode we dive into what we sell at PelvicSanity - and, more importantly, why. We believe…
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3 Ways to Better Refer Your Patients (Correct!)
How do we best collaborate with physicians? This 'sode dives into how we can best help our patients navigate the medical system. When we refer we often make…
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Financial Literacy: Fund Your Retirement Accounts
Are you fully maximizing your tax-free retirement accounts? Leveraging compound interest? So many of us struggle with stress and anxiety around money. Old…
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The Fundamental Problem Causing Student Loan Debt
In this 'sode we start to explore the problem of student loan debt, stagnant wages and how our profession came to our current troubles. So many of us graduate…
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Becoming Happy as a Little Clam: Theresa Feola Interview
How do you become truly 'happy as a little clam'? In this interview with Theresa Feola we explore how she grew from 8 to 25+ patients per week and how she…
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10 Things We're Proud Of (Special 200th 'Sode Edition)
Is it hard for you to be proud of yourself? Or at least to say that you're proud of yourself? All too often we struggle to articulate what we're proud of!…
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Adaptive vs Isolationist Strengthening: Which Is Better For My Patient?
One of the most common questions we've gotten is "what is an Adaptive Strengthening Approach, anyway?" It's a term we introduce and teach about in the…
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Standing and Functional Pelvic Floor Assessments
When and how should we be doing functional assessments in standing, quadruped, bridging, during exercises, etc.? I think we would all agree we should be…
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The Courage To Change
How do we have the courage to change our minds, our techniques and our clinical practice? Because it does take major courage! We've been thinking about this…
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Pelvic PT 2.0: Moving Beyond the Isolationist Approach
How do we move into the next stage of pelvic health? In this 'sode we introduce the Essential Pelvic Strengthening course and explain why it's so important to…
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5 Reasons Your Website Is Letting You Down
Our website is often overlooked when we think about marketing and conversion. We want to take meetings, do workshops, run ads, meet other practitioners, ask…
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But It It the BEST Use of Your Time?
If you knew you only had one more session with your patient, what would you choose to do in your session? What would you focus on? What would you send them…
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Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs: An Interview with Meghan Davidson
What limiting beliefs are holding you back in your career and business? This interview with Meghan explores some of the limiting beliefs she had to break…
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We All Feel It...But Is There a Better Way?
We all inherently feel evaluating a patient's max contraction in a supine position isn't an accurate picture of their functional pelvic floor strength. But…
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Bringing Your Significant Other Into Your Practice: An Interview with Felicia Chaves
In this 'sode we go through Felicia's business journey from zero to 30+ patients per week in less than a year. Her business has been so successful her husband…
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Pelvic Floor Assessment - Are We Choosing the Wrong Anchor?
How do we avoid going down the wrong road with a patient after their evaluation and assessment? This was prompted by a question in the Huddle regarding how we…
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Finding Your Clinical and Business Ethos: An Interview with Beth Kemper
How do you really develop your clinical Ethos? And how does that translate to business? In this eye-opening interview with Beth Kemper of Kemper Physical…
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Case Report: 5 Lessons from an IC Patient
In this case report from a complex IC patient, we dive into 5 lessons (or reminders) for us as we treat these complex patients. This was a patient who had…
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Crafting a Business that Works for Your Life: An Interview with Katie Taylor
Katie has started and grown her business in a new city, in the midst of Covid and with two young children under the age of 5. Don't miss her inspiring story…
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5 Lessons from Buying a House
Sometimes we talk clinical. Sometimes we talk business. And sometimes we talk about life, which affects both. In this 'sode we talk about lessons we learned…
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From Planning to Quit to a Multi-Clinician Practice: An Interview with Megan Rome
Everything felt 'cloudy' when Megan first started her business. In almost two years of work she was still only seeing 2-3 patients per week and having to work…
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What If My Patient Has "Just a Flicker"?
What if everything you're doing to help strengthen isn't improving strength for your patient? This 'sode is based on a great question we got from one of the…
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After 30 Years I'm Treating the Way Patients Deserve: An Interview with Marny Witas
From the "epitome of the burnt-out PT" to a thriving business owner, Marny has an incredibly unique perspective on our field. Marny is a true OG of pelvic…
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If We're NOT Just About Kegels, What Are We About?
Our profession has made a huge shift in the last decade. We've moved away from believing our specialty was all about Kegels and voluntary control of the pelvic…
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Make Change Every Single Session: An Interview with Jen Morgan
How do we cultivate clinical humility, involve the patient in their own success and focus on the "One Thing"? Don't miss this interview with Dr. Jen Morgan of…
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5 Ways the Pelvic Floor is Different
We're back! Fresh off a two-week vacation, coming back to talk to you about the pelvic floor and the ways it is different than any other muscle group. Check…
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2021 Year in Review
I'm sure a lot of us have mixed feelings on 2021! In this 'sode we're looking back at the year, talking about how to make sure we're learning and growing from…
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Starting or Leveling Up Your Business in 2022
Are you thinking of starting your own practice? A side hustle? Or maybe you've already started and are looking to level up in 2022? We're rising together as a…
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Year in Review, Christmas Jokes and Top 'Sodes of 2021
Can Jesse make Nicole laugh with Christmas jokes? What were the biggest hits of 2021? The best 'sodes of the year? Will we reach 100 reviews in 2021? So many…
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Creating an Amazing Job for Your Team: An Interview with Amanda Nayfield
Amanda never thought she wanted to run her own practice, but she was feeling overwhelmed clinically with everything she wanted to do with her patients and…
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Push Outside Your Comfort Zone to Take Flight: An Interview with Natalie Toshkoff
In this inspiring interview with Dr. Natalie Toshkoff of Take Flight PT we talk about how she overcame limiting beliefs as a clinician and business owner to…
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Lessons from a Pelvic Health OT: An Interview with Danika Viola
In this wide-ranging interview with pelvic health OT Danika Viola, we talk personal life, treatment philosophy, the difference between PT and OT and business…
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Confidence as a Clinician and Business Owner: An Interview with Taflyn Wilschinsky
"I'm still growing into it." Such an incredible interview with Taflyn Wilschinsky! She shares her story of growing as both a clinician and a business owner…
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Never Settle for a Single Answer
Do you ever settle for a simple answer when you ask your patient a question? This is especially a challenge for newer PTs. When we first start out we're often…
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Growing from 1 to 25 Patients Per Week: An Interview with Stefanie Long
Incredible conversation with Stefanie Long, founder of Concept Physical Therapy. Her practice has exploded! She started seeing 1-2 patients a week and is now…
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When a Practitioner Becomes Your Patient
Anyone had a hard time knowing how to act when you're treating a fellow practitioner? We've gotten a lot of questions about this topic from you guys, so wanted…
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Thanksgiving: Actually Making Gratitude Work
We all know the benefits being grateful can have. On our mindset. Our happiness. Even our health. So what holds us back from feeling more grateful than we do?…