At Your Cervix

Tying up Season 5 of AYC the Podcast is Dr. Christina Prevett PT, PhD. Dr Prevett is a clinical researcher who focuses on strength training in both pregnantand aging populations. She is also lead faculty at the Institute of Clinical Excellence Physio for Pelvic Health & Geriatrics, and Creator of the Barbell Mamas. Christina helps female athletes maximize fitness potential with online programm...

This week we are joined by Football legend Katie Chapman. Katie Chapman is a former English footballer who last played for Chelsea Ladies and England’s women’s national team.   At the age of 10, Katie began her professional career at Millwall Lionesses. Developing her skillset within the academy, she made her senior debut for the team in the 1996/97 season. Having showcased her ability in the 1997...

In today's episode we speak with Dr Rebeca Seagraves PT, DPT who is a Board-certified Women's Health Clinical Specialist and founder of Enhanced Recovery After Delivery - an obstetric clinical pathway that maximizes mental and physical function during pregnancy and immediately postpartum with hospital and in-home occupational and physical therapy. She has extensive experience treating perinatal an...

Dr Giselle Aerni is a sports medicine physician and creator of the Madam Athlete Podcast. She has covered everything from the WNBA, to NCAA DI and DIII national championship-winning teams, to high-school sports and marathons. In her role as a sports medicine fellowship director, she also teaches and mentors future sports medicine physicians to prepare them for careers of their own. We discuss the...

We are back! To open season 5 we have a very special personal experience of navigating the trials and tribulations of postpartum pelvic organ prolapse with Caoímhe Cummins - who is the founder and person behind the popular Instagram account @thebighillhouse. Caoímhe, who is a primary school teacher turned digital creator, offers a social media window into life as a busy stay-at-home mum to FOUR be...

**Bonus series**  Learn all about Diastasis Rectus Abdominis and what contemporary evidence informed management looks like as Gráinne busts the myths with Antony Lo and Claire Black and learns all about Claire's lived experience of Diastasis. If you have not already listened to Part 1, check it out first and then follow the discussion as Claire discusses her subsequent pregnancy with a Diastasis,...

**Bonus series**  Learn all about diastasis rectus abdominis and what contemporary evidence informed management looks like as Gráinne busts the myths with Antony Lo and Claire Black and learns all about Claire's lived experience of it. If you enjoy this episode, are accessible to Dublin, Ireland and wish to learn more about diastasis, Claire and I will be joining Antony Lo on his Irish leg of teac...

Emma and Grainne are delighted to present a very special FINALE episode. In this episode, they are joined by Olympian and world champion long distance runner Kara Goucher! This season of At Your Cervix has discussed so many facets of pelvic health with a strong bias towards the female athlete. In this episode, the discussion with Kara brings it all together. Kara has had an incredible career and h...

**** Trigger warning This episode discusses birth trauma and birth injuries***** Perineal injuries during childbirth known as OASI (Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury) or 3rd and 4th degree tears. A third-degree tear is a perineal tear that extends into the muscle of the external anal sphincter. If the tear extends further into the lining of the anus or rectum it is known as a fourth-degree tear. The...

The conversation around the menopause is finely gathering pace. It's a hot topic in the press and there are many great campaigns, more books and resources that can help women manage the menopause and seek the treatment they want and deserve.  The menopause can be difficult to navigate and is still shrouded in mystery. Grainne and Emma had a great conversation about the menstrual cycle with Mi...

This week's podcast episode was recorded for our new module of The Athletic Female course, The Perinatal Athlete, a course that Grainne, Emma and Helen McElroy have written and produced for health and fitness professionals who work with the female athletes. You can find out more about this course by heading to www.theathelticefemale.com.   This interview is accessible to all members of the Athleti...

In this episode Midwife Molly O'Brien joins Emma and Grainne to discuss childbirth.  Molly has seen many women and birthing people suffer long and difficult births which led her to explore physiology and the biomechanics of human movement and apply it to the birthing process. She discusses the disruptors of the physiological birthing process and how women and birthing people can optimise the...

In this episode, we speak to Physical Therapist and runner Kacy Seynders who has had a turbulent journey through her childhood and adolescent years suffering from eating disorders, over-exercising and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-s).  Kacy candidly discusses the huge physical impact that her eating disorder and RED-s have had on her physical, mental health and her athletic perform...

Welcome back to Season 4 of At Your Cervix the Podcast! We are delighted to bring to you this fascinating discussion with Loughborough University Researcher Joanna Harper about Transgender Athlete Performance. Joanna, originally from a small town north of Toronto is a medical researcher at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom where her research focuses on this very topic. Author of the bo...

In this episode we build upon Season 2's Finale with Molly Galbraith and Marika Hart from Girls Gone Strong which focused on being a strong women who lifts others up. If you have not already listened to this episode you should definitely catch up on it. To continue the discussion, we sat down with Jo Turner, physiotherapist and life coach from Mehab to discuss what it means to be a strong woman in...

Welcome to our season finale where we are joined by world-renowned pelvic health expert Jilly Bond.  Today Jilly joins us to discuss bladder pain syndrome is and what we can do about it?  Jilly is also a researcher and educator based in Wales, UK, with a specialist interest in pelvic pain. She has worked clinically in various areas of the NHS, led a private hospital service and her own c...

Why is sleep so important? What effect can a lack of sleep have on your mental and physical health? Can caffeine really affect your sleep that much? What can you do when sleep is hard to come by?  These are the type of areas around sleep that we delve into with Matt Philips this week.  For over ten years, Matt was part of a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, sports therapists, o...

In this week's episode Gráinne and Emma bring you the story of an athletes personal journey with Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). Sofia Häger is an active 30 year old mum to a 5 month old curious girl. She has always loved working out and played tennis during her teens and through college. After college running became her passion but all the associated injuries eventually led her to tr...

Meet The Well HQ, Baz, Bella and Emma – the coach, the GP and the scientist. Independently, all three have worked with women for decades – training athletes, teaching body literacy and trying to smash the taboos that block progress. In 2018 they joined forces!  The Well is built on cutting-edge science, expertise and experience. In this episode, Baz Moffat talks to Emma and Grainne about the...

This week's podcast episode was recorded for The Athletic Female course, a course that Grainne, Emma and Helen McElroy have written and produced for health and fitness professionals who work with the female athletes. You can find out more about this course by heading to www.theathelticefemale.com and or listening to season 2 where Emma, Grainne and Helen discuss the course in more detail.  &n...

Trigger warning - this post discusses baby loss This week Emma and Grainne are joined by mother, editor and author Georgina Lucas  Emma first met Georgie in clinic when she came to see her for a postpartum check following the birth of her 2nd baby, Grey. Tragically Grey passed away when he was 21 days old. Emma treated Georgie for a long time and got to know Georgie well.  At the beginni...

Kirsty Dougal is Scottish but lives in the Cotswolds. She is 42 and works in research funding for biological sciences. Outside of work, she is passionate about horses, having previously worked in the equine industry. If money was no object she would happily spend her time outdoors cuddling horses! 4 years ago her life was turned upside down due to the perimenopause and menopause. She experienced t...

We open this season talking to Helen Ledwick the creator of ‘Why Mums Don’t Jump’ -- a podcast about pelvic floor problems after childbirth. She’s a former BBC journalist and a mum-of-two with pelvic organ prolapse.  When delivering her second baby, Helen experienced a 3rd-degree tear and subsequent pelvic organ prolapse. Unaware of pelvic floor dysfunction until this point and frustrated, an...

✨Special Bonus Episode ✨ Hello everyone!  Some of you may know that whilst we have been having a little podcast break we have been putting together a course called The Athletic Female alongside Dr Helen McElroy! This course is all about the female athlete (no surprises there) and is an absolute passion project of ours! We wanted to tell you all about it so we got together with our co-founde...

Here it is, our final episode. We think it is an absolute cracker 😂. It’s released on Sunday (Boxing Day) - a present from us to you! Join us as we talk to Molly Galbraith founder of Girls Gone Strong, a movement dedicated to women's health, strength and empowerment and fellow pelvic health physiotherapist Marika Hart who supports Girls Gone Strong as a subject expert in perinatal and pelvic heal...