This page will tell you more about the chapters included in the DVD Healing the Pain 'Down There': A Guide for Females with Persistent Genital and Sexual Pain. 

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Disc One:
1: Welcome Message     7:06    
Hear from the Chronic Pelvic Pain sufferer who will walk this journey with you.

2: Content Providers: Explaining Pain     15:05
Health care professionals explain how pain is processed in the mind and body. 

3: Pelvic, Genital, and Sexual Pain in Women     25:11
Learn the common yet often under-diagnosed interrelated triggers for pain the pelvis. 

4: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction     12:34
The mind-body connection, how to live mindfully, and why it matters for healing chronic pain. 

5: Vestibulitis or Vestibulodynia (Vulvodynia)     6:50
Learn about the number one cause of vaginal entrance pain, how you can self-test, and what to do about it. 

6: The Pelvic Floor: An Overview     8:37
Introduction to the physical therapy component of the DVD. Learn about the threshold of pain and how to move it. 

7: Posture and Breathing: The Abdomen     9:05
How breath and posture effect pelvic pain. Learn techniques for appropriate posture and breath. 

8: Posture and Breathing: The Pelvic Floor     6:46
Abdominal and pelvic floor muscles work together. Learn relaxation breathing techniques to cue into the relaxation of the pelvic floor. 

Disc Two:
9: Posture and Breathing: The Buttocks     2:15
Releasing clenched buttocks muscles. 

10: Massage Techniques: Abdomen & Inside Thigh     8:38
Learn how abdominal and inside thigh muscles effect the pelvic floor and how to release this musculature through massage. 

11: Trigger Point Release     9:32
Orientation to the exterior pelvic floor muscles and ball-techniques for releasing tension in these areas. 

12: Stretching: Adductors, Hip Flexors, & Piriformis     8:01
How hip musculature influences the health and functionality of the pelvic floor. Learn safe and effective stretches for hip musculature. 

13: Stretching: Adductors, Hip Flexors, & Piriformis Continued     22:45
Learn safe and effective stretches for hip musculature. 

14: Pelvic Floor Muscle Control: Locating the Pelvic Floor   3:01
How to find your pelvic floor muscles. 

15: Pelvic Floor Music Control: Relaxation     4:19 
How to relax your pelvic floor muscles. 

16: Pelvic Floor Music Control: Strengthening (Also Known as Kegels)     15:34
Introduction on why and how to safely strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. Learn long-hold strengthening techniques. 


Disc Three:
17: Practicing Short Holds     2:14
Learn short-hold pelvic floor muscle strengthening techniques. 

18: Practicing Variable Holds     3:22
Learn how to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles by variable holds. 

19: Hip Strength: Hip Rotators     7:14
How hip strength effects the pelvic floor. Safe and effective hip musculature strengthening techniques.  

20 Part 1: Hip Strength: Hip Abductors     6:13
Safe and effective hip musculature strengthening techniques. 

20 Part 2: Hip Strength: Gluteus Maximus     5:17
Safe and effective hip musculature strengthening techniques.  

21: Dilator Therapy: Our Body's Natural Response to Pain 
3:01
Introduction to dilator use for breaking the body's pain cycle. 

22: Dilator Therapy: Using Medical Grade Dilators     10:23
How to set up yourself and your space for dilator work and how to get started. 

23: Dilator Therapy: Layer One     7:18
Addressing the first layer of the pelvic floor.

Disc Four:
24: Dilator Therapy: Layer Two     5:18
Addressing the second layer of the pelvic floor. 

25: Dilator Therapy: Getting Advanced     2:35
When and how to simulate sex. 

26: Dilator Therapy: Progressing Up     1:41
Progressing to the next size dilator. 

27: Resuming Sex     1:28
When and how to resume sex. 

28: Dilator Therapy: Tips     1:10
Additional dilator use tips for combining techniques and incorporating other positions. 

29: Dilator Therapy: Cleaning the Dilators     2:38
Cleaning and storage of the dilators. How to increase scar tissue mobility after pelvic surgeries. 

30: Prevention: Sports Related Injury     3:44
Preventing chronic pelvic pain disorders in young women. 

31: Ongoing Treatment     8:48
Managing your ongoing treatment to maintain healthy pelvic function. 

Bonus Feature: Carin Willis Interview with Dr. Echenberg  
19:30
Carin Willis, IC Patient/Advocate & Founder/Executive Director of Bridge for Pelvic Pain, interviews Robert Echenberg, MD about IC/Chronic Pelvic Pain and using and integrative approach. 

Bonus Feature: Neurobiology of Trauma     27:09
Alex Milspaw, PhD, LPC on the science behind how trauma effects our brain systems and how to reprogram your brain to heal from trauma. 

Total run time: 284 Minutes 

EVERY VIDEO GUIDE ALSO INCLUDES A WELCOME PACKET 
THE WELCOME PACKET INCLUDES:
  • Example Viewing Schedule. Because the chapters include a lot of information we want to give you an example schedule for taking in the elements of the DVD/Video Guide in increments. Feeling successful in overcoming pain can't happen if you're overwhelmed. Use the viewing schedule as a guide and increase or decrease your pace depending on your comfort level.  
  • Vaginal Health Guide. Guidelines to adhere to for overall vaginal health, but particularly for the condition Vulvar Vestibulodynia. Testing yourself for this condition in particular is included in the DVD content. 
  • Vaginal Canal Map.  For use with the chapter content in mapping your vaginal pain and progress. Make more copies for your continued personal use. 
  • Example of a Completed Vaginal Canal Map. For use with the chapter content. Gives an example of how to complete a vaginal canal map. ​
  • Helping with Constipation.  Learn the different ways that Over The Counter agents and Fiber products assist with minimizing constipation. 
  • Orthopedic Considerations for Sexual Activity.  Sexual position options for you to consider when returning to sex. Provided by Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, copyright 2010.