Pelvic Venous Disorders, Chronic Pain, and the Pelvic Floor with Dr. Julie Baron
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Dr. Sameena Rahman interviews Dr. Julie Baron about pelvic venous disorders and chronic pelvic pain experienced by women.
Why do so many women with chronic pelvic pain get told "this is just motherhood" or "it'll get better when you go through menopause"? What if the heaviness, the aching, the constant discomfort isn't something you have to live with? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Julie Baron, a pelvic floor physical therapist and director of Pelvic Health and Performance Center in Bellevue, Washington. Dr. Baron blew our minds at ISSWSH this year with her groundbreaking lecture on pelvic venous disorders a condition that's massively underdiagnosed and often dismissed as "just in your head." Dr. Baron shares her own lived experience with pelvic venous disease. For years, she couldn't sit or stand for more than 10 minutes without needing to lie down. She saw urologists, gynecologists, GI docs, colorectal specialists, and pelvic PTs and everyone told her she was normal. She was working as a pelvic floor PT herself, helping other people with pelvic pain while feeling like a fraud because she couldn't solve her own. She finally diagnosed herself, pushed her way into getting the imaging no one wanted to order, and finally felt validated after the report came back showing renal vein obstruction…
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