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Soul Source is proud to again donate dilators and personal lubricants to the Baylor College of Medicine's Global Women's Health Fellowship. Dr. Rachel Pope has committed to 2 years to work in their clinic in the sub-Saharan African country of Malawi, treating women with obstetric fistula.  Fistula occurs when the baby’s head is too big to pass through the bones of the mother’s pelvis. In high-resource settings, a woman in this situation would immediately go in for a caesarean delivery. In low-resource settings, women go into labor in remote villages far from a health care facility, in a hospital or health...

Leslie R. Schover, PhD       Vaginal dilators have been around in one form or another for at least 50 years. When I first worked as a psychologist/sex therapist in a major cancer center in the early 1980s, women getting pelvic radiation therapy got a dilator that looked like a hard plastic candle. The nurses told them to put surgical jelly on the dilator, and to put it in their vagina several times a week to prevent damage from scar tissue. Before that, I’d worked with dilators in sex therapy for women who had severe anxiety about vaginal penetration,...

Our friend and colleague Dr. Mache Seibel is one of the leading experts in the country on menopause and he’s just launching his new book called The Estrogen Window.        In The Estrogen Window, Dr. Seibel explains how every woman has an "estrogen window" of opportunity.  Not only can women safely take estrogen during this window, but also taking the hormone in the estrogen window provides a wide range of health benefits that can protect women from breast cancer, heart disease, dementia, and more.   When you pre-order the book before April 15th, Dr. Seibel has put together some...

When Jane asked me to write a blog for Soul Source I knew right away I had the perfect one for her subscribers. So many of you are having challenges due to treatment for breast cancer and have found that without estrogen, vaginal dryness and narrowing of the vagina is an all too familiar problem.   As a result of having virtually no estrogen, women with breast cancer often suffer from the symptoms of menopause and one of the worst is vaginal dryness, thinning of the vaginal and bladder tissues called atrophic vaginitis or more recently Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM). ...

Most people think of physical therapy in terms of therapeutic treatment for orthopedic or neurological conditions – things such as back pain, knee pain, and strokes. Did you know, though, that there are pelvic health specialty-trained physical therapists who help women and men with very private conditions? The terms often used are: pelvic health physical therapists, women’s health physical therapists, or pelvic PTs. So, how are vaginal dilators utilized for pelvic physical therapy? Vaginal dilators are most effective when used for conditions that prevent the patient from having a desired body part (finger or penis) or object (tampon, speculum for GYN...