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...whose common function in traditional cultures was that of a healer. Analysis of the woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under the woman...
...study released in Italy in February suggests that women who wear high heels enjoy sex more--no, really, hear me out--because walking in heels conditions the pelvic muscles. As I said, released in Italy...
...smooth entry. We soon learned, however, that it requires a good deal of awkward fumbling to find the sweet spot that turns on the reader and causes the door to yield. Worse yet, to do it with our wallet still in our pants requires a great deal of pelvic thrusting, prolonging the moment when, finally, our impatient rubbing provokes that high-pitched shriek of welcome entrance. More frustrating still is the ease with which our fellow schools have introduced such measures. To our knowledge, their devices all seem so much more sensitive, and unlocking doors doesn’t require...
...also important for women to raise the issue with their family physician or gynecologist. Physicians have to depend on patients to detail symptoms like urinary and fecal incontinence that are not apparent in a routine physical exam. Pelvic-organ prolapse, in severe cases, may be obvious to a doctor, Nygaard said, but in some cases women don't necessarily feel discomfort, so patients need to explain their symptoms and ask for a physical exam...
...most important thing a woman can do, given the study's conclusion that a pelvic-floor disorder may be in her future, is to get better acquainted with the condition and its cures. Surgery is not the only treatment, Nygaard says. Rather, there is a wide range of other therapies, including drugs, lifestyle changes, biofeedback, pelvic muscle exercises and medical devices that relieve prolapse without surgery. Nygaard, a past president of the American Urogynecologic Society, suggests visiting the group's website for a guide to the disorder and helpful advice for women...