Noa Goodman

I'll be attending the amazing 2024 TransPride YOUniting Health & Wellness Conference. Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can say Hi! 👋 Or register now and join me at the event! whova.com/portal/registr… via #Whova event app whova.com/portal/registr…

Occupational therapy practitioners treating patients in the hospital after c-section are setting the current approach on 🔥 and elevating a new standard of care. OTPs!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Full article: bestcare.org/news/methodist… “Up and walking” is not an assessment. A mental health screen is.

@Dr_PelvicBella ... and CONSTIPATION weakens the pelvic floor.

🌟 Pelvic Floor Health Alert 🌟 Did you know that there are many factors besides childbirth that can weaken the pelvic floor?

No US President has ever given birth so explain to me why suddenly we think that’s necessary

🎙️ Just in! Dr. Mary Ackenbom, Magee-Womens investigator, discusses her work on health care disparities, including a recent systematic literature review on pelvic floor disorders. Understanding disparities is key to advancing equity efforts. Read more: bit.ly/3W9KGE8

Drs. Jarlenski & @DrDaraDMendez' mixed methods research evaluating PA #Medicaid's equity payment program and equity focused obstetric bundle show how Medicaid policy interventions can promote #racialequity in #pregnancy & #childhealth. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38649983/

This is a very elegant study in @UrogynJournal that points to an autonomic hypothesis gathering more and more data: Most patients with non-bladder centric (non-Hunner lesion) Interstitial Cystitis, have ENDOMETRIOSIS as the underlying pain generator. journals.lww.com/fpmrs/abstract…

@MageeWomens we’ve got some work to do. @RebecaSegraves and team: 47 hospitals in the United States are providing families with occupational therapy and/or physical therapy after birth before they return home. Find out if your hospital made the list🎉 pelvichealthnetwork.org/hospitals/

I did a video explaining why women over the age of 45yrs old do NOT need a FSH blood test to diagnose #menopause as per NICE guidelines ⬇️

We have only a tip of the iceberg understanding of how racism impacts Black health! This @JAMA_current study shows an association w/ greater connectivity in brain pathways involved with rumination —>increased vulnerability to stress disorders & neurodegenerative disease…

attention trans femmes and the PTs who care for them: @NoaDpt and I have a book just for you ✨ #transgenderhealth #transhealth #vaginoplasty #pelvichealth #PhysicalTherapy lulu.com/shop/noa-goodm…

Grateful to @US_FDA for meeting with us to discuss a pathway to changing the labeled warnings on local vaginal estrogen. Vaginal estrogen does not cause stroke, blood clots, or dementia. Saying so is dangerous since it DOES PREVENT urinary tract infections by more than half

Our medical degrees will not save us. Intimate partner violence is everywhere 😢 Ask each patient. One day they may say yes #IPV #womenshealth gofundme.com/f/help-honor-d…

How to get female testosterone therapy on the NHS for menopause ⬇️ I hope this helps my NHS colleagues & those wanting to look to add #testosterone therapy to their #HRT

In the 5th annual Lynda D. Woodruff panel discussion, Dr. Julian Magee, PT, DPT, ATC said, “if you are only using your degree to be a rehab specialist, you are only using 60% of your capability.” 2024+🔮: teach students how to leverage their Diverse talents beyond their degree🚀

Ever wonder DEI advocates are exhausted? Why so many physical therapists are young and white? How racism, cis heteronormativity and ablism impacts our PT edu? Thank you to Dr Julian Magee and Dr @RebecaSegraves for your honesty and for being a light in these murky waters.

Already learning so much by collaborating with these brilliant and hard working colleagues in multiple different specialties to help care for our patients, and to shed light on unmet needs. Our patients need and deserve the multi-disciplinary care

Vaginal estrogen is key.

Recurrent UTI pose unique management challenges in older women. Rather than testing and treating liberally, clinicians should focus on acute, localizing urinary symptoms, use clinical tests judiciously, and consider the risks of antibiotic overtreatment. ja.ma/4bcoUUV