Optimize Pelvic Health

Optimize Pelvic Health Janet is a physical therapist who has a 10 year experience of treating orthopedic, pelvic floor and sports injuries focusing on runners.

Her whole body approach has helped numerous patients return to the activities they love.

01/02/2026

Thank you 2025! Good bye and never come back!!

I’m so grateful for all the connections in 2025 but I’m not gonna lie, it was a HARD year.

Thank you all!










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12/26/2025

Merry Christmas and the Happiest Holidays from my fam and Optimize Pelvic Health fam!

12/24/2025

Holiday treats leaving you feeling puffy, tight, or uncomfortable? 🎄✨
A sudden shift in sugar, alcohol, caffeine, and routine can irritate your gut and nervous system—
and when your intestines are stressed, the pelvic floor often responds by gripping.
That bloated, heavy, or stiff feeling isn’t just digestion… it’s a body response.
What can help 👇
✅ Use an inflated ball (like the Coregeous ball)
✅ Gently roll at the corners of your pelvis
✅ Think soft pressure + slow breathing, not aggressive release
This can calm the gut, down-regulate the nervous system, and give your pelvic floor permission to let go.
If you try this, tell me how it feels 🤍
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I help pregnant & postpartum women return to the activities they love—
without pain, pressure, or feeling like their body is “off.”
🔗 Link in bio to get started at Optimize Pelvic Health

12/19/2025

Jumping in on this! Lol!
I use the prompt as it was shared, then realized I should have thrown in a pelvis! So I asked again and it gave me the 2nd photo 😆

Where’s my green velvet suit?!
It definitely didn’t follow the prompt fully.

Happy Holidays!!

Prompt taken from

Let me know ⬇️ if you make one for yourself!!

12/10/2025

Worst exercise cue ever: “Posterior pelvic tilt.”

It feels like you’re engaging your core… but you’re actually destabilizing it, over-tightening your pelvic floor, and even irritating the femoral nerve (nerve in front of the thigh going to the knee).
This common cue tricks your body into working against itself and usually an anterior pelvic tilt is NOT the problem.
Instead of building strength, it creates tension where you don’t want it, deep in your pelvis.
Learning how to activate your core the right way can protect your pelvic floor, reduce nerve irritation, and finally make your exercises effective.
If your workouts keep making your symptoms worse, it’s not you, it’s the cue.
Let’s fix it.
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We work with pregnant and postpartum women with pelvic floor dysfunction to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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12/02/2025

The short answer Yes!!

Why teach perineal massage?

Because it’s safe, takes only a few minutes, and even if it only helps some people avoid tearing… that’s still worth it. When a technique has very low risk and no known harm, we don’t wait for a 100% success rate, we use it because the potential upside matters.

And reminder: perineal massage isn’t really a “massage.” We’re teaching patients how to relax their pelvic floor through breath, body scanning, and tuning into the muscles, not rubbing tissues like a shoulder knot.

Here’s what the research consistently shows:

Low risk: No adverse effects when done correctly.

Meaningful benefit: Fewer episiotomies and fewer severe tears (3rd/4th degree) in several studies.

Easy to do at home: A few minutes a day starting around 34–35 weeks.

High payoff: Even helping 1 out of 4 or 1 out of 5 people matters when the intervention is simple and safe.

Low risk + possible big benefit = that’s a yes from me.

So check in with a pelvic floor physical therapist. Make sure
it’s a relaxation practice: Breathwork + awareness helps muscles release, making the tissue more adaptable during birth.

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We work with pregnant and postpartum women with pelvic floor dysfunction to get them back to doing the activities they love without symptoms! Click link in profile to give us a call.
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750 N. Capitol Avenue Suite C-8
San Jose, CA
95133

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 1am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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+14087570734

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