Lynn Schulte | The True Requirements for Ethical, Effective Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment
Show Notes:
Intravaginal work is not just a skill – it’s a responsibility.
In this episode, Lynn challenges some of the most common (and limiting) approaches to internal pelvic floor treatment and outlines what actually needs to be in place for intravaginal work to be effective, ethical, and transformative for your clients.
If you’ve ever felt like:
- Your internal work isn’t creating lasting change
- Clients plateau despite “doing everything right”
- You were taught what to assess but not how to truly create change
…this conversation will expand the way you think about internal pelvic floor treatment.
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode
This episode outlines three essential prerequisites that should be present before performing intravaginal work – yet are rarely clearly taught in traditional pelvic health education.
- Why pelvic bones – not just muscles – must be addressed first
- How to listen for the body’s “yes” (not just verbal consent)
- Why standing internal assessments should be a clinical standard
Pelvic health practitioners are uniquely trained to understand biomechanics, joints, and soft tissue – but much of pelvic floor education still underutilizes this skill set.
This episode bridges:
- Biomechanics + intravaginal technique
- Trauma-informed care + clinical effectiveness
- Bone-based treatment + muscular release
…and offers a clearer, more respectful path forward for internal pelvic floor work.
🎓 Featured Education: Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment Course
This episode kicks off January’s course spotlight, highlighting the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment course, a 5-hour, self-paced online program designed to help practitioners:
- Improve outcomes with a respectful approach
- Work with pelvic bones and muscles together for easier and more effective treatments
- Confidently assess and treat the sphincter complex
- Create change without pain, pressure, or force
Whether you’re newer to pelvic health or have years of internal work experience, this course offers a fresh, highly effective approach that will enhance the success of your internal pelvic floor treatments.
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Love Dr. Rachael! She is such a gem in the Metro Detroit area. She was my pelvic floor PT during my first pregnancy and postpartum and inspired me to pursue pelvic health certification (coming from an Ortho PT clinic). I’m now working through Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant and Postpartum Body.
Thank you so much for this presentation…I am an osteopath and also trained in SER (love love Upledger!)…the piece about ‘freeze’ related to transgenerational trauma was very informative and a reminder to look further…I have had a client who lost a baby and when I treated her she felt she needed to give birth to this child…and then went back several lives and saw that she had also lost a baby many lives prior! This relieved her of some stress…so every piece of the puzzle counts…keep the nuggets coming, so appreciative! Best, Judith
Great interview, Lynn and Susanne, for pushing us beyond “hands on, hands in”, confirming our need as therapists, for wide, grounded personal presence for our clients to feel safe and then willing to bring forth those physical/emotional/transgenerational, traumas/beliefs that lead to more complete healing and return to function. Appreciate the shout out, and listened delightfully to two of my favorite teachers and mentors. All of this was gold!