Endometriosis, Pelvic Floor PT, and the Medical Gaslighting That Keeps Women in Pain with Jandra Mueller

About this episode

The episode discusses endometriosis as a systemic condition, featuring insights from pelvic floor PT Jandra Mueller on diagnosis and treatment challenges.

Endometriosis is often talked about as a pelvic disease, but it's actually a systemic inflammatory condition that affects the entire body. And the way we diagnose and treat it is still failing too many patients. In this episode, I sit down with Jandra Mueller, a pelvic floor physical therapist in San Diego and the incoming educational chair for the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. Jandra specializes in treating patients with endometriosis and has a unique perspective both as a clinician and as someone who went through the diagnostic odyssey herself. Her own experience getting diagnosed drove her to focus on this work. She spent years dealing with symptoms that kept getting dismissed and saw multiple specialists who couldn't figure out what was wrong. Even as a pelvic floor PT working in a hospital-based women's health center with access to specialists, it took years to get the right diagnosis. We discuss why the new guidelines for diagnosing endometriosis are a step forward but still fall short. We talk about the pelvic pentad the association between endometriosis, hypermobility, mast cell activation syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction, and…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Sameena Rahman

Guest: Jandra Mueller

Topics covered

• endometriosis
• pelvic floor physical therapy
• medical gaslighting
• diagnosis
• chronic pain
• women's health

Keywords

• endometriosis
• pelvic floor therapy
• diagnostic odyssey
• chronic pain
• medical gaslighting
• women's health
• hyper-mobility
• mast cell activation syndrome

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health

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