Integrative Spine & Pelvic Health

Everyone tells you to stretch more when your back, hips, or pelvic girdle start hurting during pregnancy…

But what if that’s not actually what’s missing?

Pregnancy hormones are designed to make your ligaments more flexible to prepare for birth. While massage and stretching can absolutely provide temporary relief (and I use both in my clinic!), they often don’t address why the pain keeps coming back.

Research suggests that exercise—particularly strengthening and stabilization exercises—can reduce pregnancy-related low back and pelvic girdle pain more effectively than passive treatments alone.

✨ The goal isn’t to make your body looser.
✨ The goal is to make your body feel more supported.

When the muscles around your pelvis, hips, core, and deep abdominal system learn to work together, they help create the stability your changing body is craving.

That doesn’t mean:
❌ Stretch everything.
❌ Push through pain.
❌ Stop moving.

It means finding the right exercises for your body at your stage of pregnancy.

If your pelvic girdle pain or low back pain keeps returning despite massages and stretching, it may be time to stop asking, “What needs to be released?” and start asking, “What needs to be strengthened?”

Your body isn’t failing you—it may just be asking for more support.

💛 Save this for a mama who keeps hearing, “Just stretch,” and follow for evidence-based pregnancy and pelvic floor tips.

Research consistently supports exercise therapy and individualized stabilization programs as first-line treatment for pregnancy-related pelvic girdle and low back pain, while passive treatments like massage are best used as complementary—not stand-alone—interventions.

Unfortunately… I do love talking about things most people avoid. 🤍

Peeing when you laugh.
Pain with s*x.
Constipation.
Tailbone pain.
Pregnancy aches.
Menopause.
Pelvic floor tension.

Because those conversations help women realize they’re not alone—and that so many of these symptoms are treatable.

If asking about your bladder, bowels, breathing, and pelvic floor helps you get back to living your life with confidence, then yes… it’s one of my favorite parts of my job. 💛