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Pelvic Health & Persistent Pain
Relieve your pain, Regain your confidence.

03/12/2026

Nutrition advice for MCAS, EDS, and POTS is often conflicting, restrictive, and overwhelming.

In this free one-hour webinar, Functional Nutritionist Cindi Lockhart will unpack the root causes that commonly trigger flares — including mast cell instability, autonomic dysfunction, gut permeability, microbiome imbalance, nutrient deficiencies, blood sugar swings, stress physiology, and environmental exposures.

You’ll learn why many elimination diets and supplement protocols unintentionally worsen symptoms, how connective tissue and nervous system dysregulation affect digestion and absorption, and what foundational food and lifestyle strategies truly stabilize these complex conditions.

This evidence-informed session will provide practical, physiology-based guidance to reduce reactivity, improve resilience, and build a sustainable nutrition approach that supports long-term symptom management — without unnecessary restriction.

Sign up at the link above ⬆️

03/06/2026

Postpartum mamas, this one’s for you 🤍
If you had a C-section or are wondering if you might have diastasis recti, we’re offering FREE postpartum screenings to help you understand what’s going on with your body after baby.
✨ Gentle assessment ✨ Learn what’s normal vs. what may need support ✨ Guidance on healing your core and scar tissue
Your body did something incredible—and you deserve support in your recovery.
📅 Limited spots available 📞 Call us to schedule your free postpartum screen 612-440-8455

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03/05/2026

Did you know that occupational therapists can be an important part of your care team if you’re living with pelvic health symptoms or the triad of hEDS/HSD, POTS/Dysautonomia and MCAS?

OTs are known for being organized, creative and solution-based.

They’re here to help you create a lifestyle that helps you thrive in all aspects of your being.

We’re so happy to have Amy, occupational therapist and newest Intrinsic team member on our team!

03/03/2026

📣Meet Amy!

She’s a pelvic floor occupational therapist and the newest member on our team!

Amy specializes in pelvic health, hypermobility conditions and dysautonomia.

She brings a fresh perspective to the care she provides for our patients and we’re so excited to watch how her expertise further optimizes our patient’s health.

See her for 👇
Pelvic health conditions including:
- Pregnancy prep
- Postpartum support
- Pelvic pain
- Bladder and bowel symptoms
- Pelvic organ prolapse

Hypermobility/Dysautonomia:
- Pacing strategies & energy management
- Pain relief
- Bracing, assistive devices & tools
- Lifestyle redesign

📞 give us a call to schedule an evaluation with Amy!
612-440-8455

02/24/2026

Join Cindi Lockhart, Functional Nutritionist, and Rita White, Physical Therapist, for a free one-hour webinar exploring how menopause reshapes the body hormonally, metabolically, and physically. Cindi will explain why sleep, stress resilience, and strategic nutrition become non-negotiable as metabolism shifts — and why what worked in the past may no longer work now. Rita will discuss how hormonal changes impact the pelvic floor, muscles, and joints, and how gentle, well-designed exercise can reduce symptoms, improve confidence, and help women keep doing the activities they enjoy. Walk away with practical tools to bust through weight loss resistance, improve sleep & energy & mood, as well as move confidently to support your body in midlife. Sign up 👆

02/17/2026

Your nervous system’s job is to keep you safe. It will do everything it can to help you survive moment to moment.

This is so helpful short term, but long term this can start to take a toll on your body.

Because the thing is, it really doesn’t care about how you feel long term, as long as you survive.

That’s why incorporating tools and strategies that bring you out of survival mode- even temporarily- are incredibly beneficial for improving symptoms.

Breathing, grounding, sunlight, routine… all of these are examples of supportive tools that help us find balance when faced with prolonged stress.

What are your go to practices for a healthy nervous system?

01/07/2026

Pregnancy, birth and postpartum is often a scary time because it comes with so many unknowns, especially when you live in a body that doesn’t always cooperate.

Having evidence based guidance is a game changer. It helps us be better informed so that we can communicate our needs with other providers who may not be as familiar with HSD/hEDS, which allows us to get the care that is necessary to have a successful pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience.

As a hypermobile human with POTS and MCAS who just had a successful pregnancy and birth, I wish I would’ve utilized these guidelines more proactively because it would’ve helped me avoid added stress during an already stressful season of life!

Thank you to and all the other authors for gifting us with these guidelines!

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12/09/2025

We don’t always think about pelvic floor therapy as a treatment for MCAS, but it can be a really important partner in your treatment plan!

MCAS can greatly affect the bowel (constipation and/or diarrhea anyone?), the bladder (painful peeing, trouble starting or difficulty emptying) and lead to pelvic pain conditions like endometriosis, painful menstrual cramping and vulvodynia.

The good news is that as pelvic floor therapists, we have a lot of tools that can help these conditions, even if they’re caused by unruly mast cells!

At Intrinsic, we’ll take a holistic approach so that we can help you get to the root of your issues and get you feeling better.

11/13/2025

If you live with POTS and have started noticing pelvic pain, difficulty going to the bathroom and digestive issues, know that these can all be related to your POTS diagnosis.

Understanding this helps to treat your symptoms from a root cause standpoint, instead of treating everything separately, and can help you feel improvement faster!

11/05/2025

Check out this conference on Menopause by Let’s Talk Women happening on Thursday, November 6th in Minneapolis! I’ll be one of the panelists speaking on pelvic health alongside other pelvic and sexual health experts!

We’re looking forward to this much needed conversation and are so grateful for the team at Let’s Talk Women for bringing this topic into the light!

What questions do you have about peri/menopause?! What do you wish you knew? What do you wish was talked about more?

10/20/2025

If you’re local to the Twin Cities, check out the Lowry Bridge in Minneapolis where it will light up turquoise on Friday, October 24th for Dysautonomia Awareness Month!

What is one thing that has helped you treat your dysautonomia? Share below so we can all help each other!

10/15/2025

Pain is the most common symptom experienced by people living with EDS/HSD and yet it is so often undertreated and misunderstood.

Pain can feel complicated (you’re given conflicting answers! you’re gaslit! you’re told a million different things to do, to try!) and to treat pain, it’s important that we begin with an understanding of it.

First things first, your pain is real. Period. (don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t)

We can experience different types of pain and there are oh so many flavors of pain that come with living with EDS/HSD.

One differentiation is acute vs chronic pain. With EDS/HSD, people experience BOTH types all the time and treatment needs to address each to be effective!

Not addressing both types of pain is one of the biggest mistakes I see with PTs who don’t specialize in treating EDS and hypermobility-related syndromes.

There are a lot of things we can do to treat pain… in PT and beyond… so don’t give up! Keep trying until you find what works for you!

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4250 Dahlberg Drive
Golden Valley, MN
55422

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Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm

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http://www.intrinsic-pt.com/

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