Episode 43
Shelly Prosko - Bridging the Gap Between Yoga and Healthcare
Shelly Prosko specializes in pain science, yoga therapy and pelvic floor health. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between yoga and modern healthcare philosophies and believes this integration is highly effective in creating and sustaining optimal health. Shelly has been integrating yoga into her physical therapy treatments since 1998, addressing a wide variety of conditions and populations, with a special focus on helping people suffering from persistent pain and pelvic health issues.
She travels globally offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, lecturing at medical college programs, instructing at yoga therapy trainings, presenting at international medical and wellness conferences, and actively promoting the integration of medical therapeutic yoga into our current healthcare system.
In this episode we discuss what yoga therapy is, how it can be used in healthcare professions, pelvic floor health, pain science, how the research does not support the idea that “optimal alignment” eliminates pain and the how we can still teach alignment without instilling fear of movement and more.
Highlights:
The difference between yoga therapists and yoga teachers
Neil Pearson and Pain Care Yoga
Fear mongering in yoga instruction - sometimes we unknowingly instill fear of movement. We have to be careful about blanket statements about certain movements being good or bad
The role of pelvic floor muscles with breathing, hip function, and balance
What current research tells us about yoga therapy and Pelvic Floor Health. There’s a lot we still don’t know!