Celebrate Muliebrity with Michelle Lyons

Hi everyone and welcome to this episode of the Celebrate Muliebrity podcast, where I had a great conversation with Dr Tina Mapa, who has built a flourishing career delivering pelvic healthcare, with a focus on dyspareunia, completely virtually! We talk about how telehealth is different and perhaps even superior in some regards when it comes to improving access to care and promoting self-efficacy W...

Hello & welcome to this episode all about the intersection of hip health and pelvic health, with one of my favourite researchers/clinicians, Dr Alison Grimaldi In this episode we discuss the interconnectedness of the pelvic floor, hip muscles, and nerves in the pelvic region, how the pelvic floor works in conjunction with other muscles, particularly the obturator internus, to support pelvic functi...

Hello & Welcome to this episode of the podcast, where we're talking about all things prolapse, with advanced practice women's health physio (& pilates teacher!) Leah Bryans ​In today’s conversation we discussed the evolution of our roles as physiotherapists, particularly in pelvic health. Leah shared her journey from not realizing the extent of what physio could do to becoming more confident in ma...

Hello & Welcome to this week's episode, all about Food, Mood & Menopause with Dr Trish Heavey Trish is a nutrition and menopause researcher at TUS here in Ireland and brings a practical and evidence based perspective to helping women life well during this transition In today’s episode, we talked about: how lifestyle strategies such as exercise & sleep are important at menopause but nutrition is th...

My first male guest on the podcast - who better than Bill Taylor! I've known Bill for ages and we can talk and talk and talk... Bill is a brilliant clinician and a great friend. We had intended to talk about pelvic neuralgias, and what makes us suspect or rule out the pudendal but...we actually ended up talking about male pelvic health (seems inevitable in hindsight with my first male guest!)...

Hello & Welcome to today's episode - March is, as you know Endometriosis Awareness month - we know there's a lot of room to improve when it comes to diagnosis and treatment ...but today, I wanted to focus on what's going well when it comes to helping women with endometriosis live well My guest today is Emma Sheehy, a physiotherapist who is driving the conversation about a biopsychosocial multimoda...

New Podcast Alert ‼️ We are heading into Women in Sport week AND Women in Research week so this feels like the perfect time to share my conversation my Dr Emma Cowley - another of the great researchers from TUS If you’ve ever said (or heard me say 😉) that only 6% of research in sports science is done on females - you have Emma to thank for that! ‘Invisible Sportswomen’ 2021) In this chat, we expl...

hello there! Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast - thanks for joining the women's health conversation In today’s podcast, I have the pleasure of chatting with Edel Flynn, a PhD candidate at TUS University. Edel is looking at different lifestyle approaches for menopausal health and wellbeing, with a primary focus on exercise and education about lifestyle choices, including nutrition, stre...

hello again! I'm still a bit croaky but nevertheless, I persisted! In this week's episode, I want to look at how we can best help women with dyspareunia (and maybe throw a bit of evidence based myth busting into the mix!) In this episode I talk about the different types of sexual pain, the drivers and how we can best come up with clinically reasonable treatment planning, that includes pelvic rehab...

We're back! Welcome to a new batch of episodes, where I'll be sharing conversations with colleagues as well as research roundups in solo episodes I'm a bit stuffy in the first part of today's episode with menopause running coach Irene Clark (thanks lingering flu!) - but I wanted to include a little research roundup on working with female athletes, especially the challenges facing physical activity...

Hello and Welcome! Thanks for being here - this episode is all about the multidisciplinary and multimodal approach to pelvic pain! I'm joined by my friend and colleague, psychotherapist Orlagh Reid. We discussed: the management of anxiety in the context of persistent pelvic pain acknowledging the need to balance and integrate the bio and the psychosocial how anxiety affects pain - and our role...

Hello & Welcome to 2025! The New Year is here - and this is often when we see many runners back on the road again - with or without their pelvic rehab issues! In this conversation we discuss all things running & women's health including: the overlap between ortho/musculoskeletal and pelvic health for female runners, whether we're talking about elite level or weekend warriors how we can avo...

Hello & Welcome to this conversation with my guest today, Dr Siobhain O'Mahony, who has not only a successful career as an academic and researcher in the field of the microbiome and women's health, from fertility to menopause; she also works in the Women's Health Research and Innovation   space. In this conversation, we discussed everything from fertility to endo to menopause, including : ​the Mic...

Hello & Welcome To This Week's Episode! I'm really excited to share the conversation that I recently had with Dr Lori Brotto, and to take a dive into the research around mindfulness & pelvic health If you're enrolled in my Female Pelvic Pain Rehab or my Female Sexual Dysfunction courses, you'll know that I love the research of Dr Lori Brotto; I think she makes the science around mindfulnes...

Hello & Welcome To The Latest Episode! I'm so excited to share a recent conversation I had with exciting pelvic health physio and researcher, Dr Malgorzata Starzec-Proserpio In 2024, Gosia released 2 papers that I think will have profound implications for the way we work with women who have pelvic pain and dyspareunia (and maybe challenge some biases along the way!) 'From Fragmented to Whole: Mult...

Hello & Welcome To This Week's Episode! In this week's podcast I'm sharing the audio from a presentation I did recently for my new course 'Female Sexual Health, Contraception & Fertility' If you're working with people with pelvic health issues, whether that's pelvic pain, sexual pain or dysfunction, a history of trauma or violence, or going through fertility difficulties...then we need to...

Research Nerd Alert! This is an overview of our current understanding of what central sensitisation (aka nociplastic pain) is and how it impacts pelvic pain syndromes and of course...what we are goibg to do about it! Some great research around this topic has emerged over the past couple of years, with a growing understanding of why just focusing on the issues in the tissues is not enough and how w...

Welcome to this week's episode, where we're starting to look at preparing for the upcoming festive season - full of stress, different eating, sleeping and travel planning - the perfect recipe for stress, unregulated nervous systems, digestive systems and pelvic floor dysfunction! All this month, we're going to look at the evidence for multimodal pelvic rehab & lifestyle strategies for pain &am...

Hello & Welcome to the latest episode of the CelebrateMuliebrity podcast! In today's episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with Dr Amanda Homen, a Toronto based physiotherapist and we chatted about the role of Hypermobility in Pelvic Health. Some of the topics we discussed include: what is hyper mobility and why we need to know about it in pelvic rehab why a systemic approach is needed - lo...

Hello & welcome to this week's episode of the podcast! Today is World Osteoporosis Day and it falls right in the middle of both Menopause Awareness and Breast Cancer Awareness month (probably not a coincidence as bone health is a major issue for both of these often overlapping groups) In last week's episode, I talked about musculoskeletal health at menopause, and everything I said then is appl...

October is awareness month for both Menopause & Breast Cancer, and one area of overlap between these two issues is that of musculoskeletal health Sometimes, when we think about musculoskeletal health at menopause, we might immediately think of osteoporosis. Although that's a really important issues, and one I'll be addressing in upcoming episodes, for today I want to talk about muscle & jo...

Welcome to the latest episode of the Celebrate Muliebrity podcast! In today's episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Surabhi Veitch, an amazing physiotherapist from Toronto (Before I tell you what we talked about - please note I had an equipment malfunction about 18 minutes in - it gets scratchy just on my end for approx 60 seconds then settles down - if it was just a solo episode I would ha...

NEW PODCAST ALERT! Pain Science & Pelvic Pain: Episode 50 with Dr Millie Mardon Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode where I'm sharing a recent conversation I had with newly minted PhD, Dr Amelia (Millie) Mardon In this podcast episode we discuss: Millie's latest research paper ' I wish I knew then what I know now - pain science education concepts important for female...

Hello and welcome to this week's episode where I'm sharing my top 5 non-hormonal approaches for pelvic health at Menopause. GSM or Geniturinary Syndrome of Menopause covers the pelvic health changes we see as oestrogen levels decline and includes such issues as overactive bladder, continence, VV dryness/ irritation and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. Although topical hormonal therapies su...

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where I had the pleasure of discussing what’s new in pelvic rehab when it comes to Menopause, Cancer & Pelvic Pain. September is actually awareness month for those three (big!) topics so I was excited to chat with Elise Fraser from the University of Melbourne about the new & exciting research showing the benefits of physio in each of these (som...