Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Pelvic Health with Dr. April Dominick, DPT [Facilitated Episode 23]
- The Facility Denver
- 16 hours ago
- 24 min read
This candid conversation between certified nutritionist Kate Daugherty and Dr. April Dominick, pelvic floor specialist, pulls back the curtain on what happens when functional medicine meets physical therapy. Two healthcare professionals walk into a coffee shop... and what follows is a friendship and collaboration that transforms patient care.
Friend, Patient, Co-worker > The Evolution
The intersection of functional medicine and pelvic floor therapy represents one of the most powerful collaborations in modern healthcare. In this revealing conversation between Kate Daugherty, a certified nutritionist, and Dr. April Dominick, a physical therapist specializing in pelvic floor health, we discover how their professional relationship developed into a friendship that benefits countless patients.
Their story begins with a coffee shop meeting arranged through a mutual patient, where Dr. Mitchell Rasmussen immediately recognized April's aligned healthcare philosophy. This initial connection quickly evolved into a professional collaboration at their clinic, The Facility in Denver, Colorado. What makes this partnership special is their shared commitment to comprehensive patient care and education-first approach.
One of the most significant aspects explored in their conversation is the treatment of pregnancy and postpartum conditions. April emphasizes how pregnancy creates a cascade of changes that require constant adaptation. She notes that her role involves "myth-busting" around movement during pregnancy, combating the "fear-forward messaging" that often limits pregnant individuals unnecessarily. As April explains, "Thank you for giving me the permission to continue lifting or to continue jumping or running. These are my passions," reflecting what her patients often express after working with her.
Kate's personal journey as April's patient provides a powerful case study in their collaborative approach. From pregnancy through delivery (where April actually slept in the hospital room closet to support Kate during labor) to postpartum recovery, their professional relationship deepened through shared vulnerability. They openly discuss treating Kate's postpartum anal fissure with a combination of manual therapy, dry needling, red light therapy, and cupping—techniques that proved successful and now benefit other patients facing similar issues.
This.... AND. The Importance of Collaboration and Education
We highlight how the "AND not OR" philosophy of healthcare [championed by ICE] creates better outcomes for patients. They regularly share information (with patient permission) to develop comprehensive treatment plans that address both nutritional/functional medicine concerns and physical therapy needs. As Kate mentions, "We've shared so many patients and there's no way that these people would have gotten as better if we were working independently."
Education stands as a core value for both practitioners. April serves as a teaching assistant for pelvic floor courses and develops educational content for her Instagram (@revitalizepelvicphysio), making complex information accessible to patients. Both professionals emphasize the importance of saying "I don't know" when appropriate and continuing their education through research to provide the best possible care.
Pelvic Health is for ALL.
The conversation concludes with a powerful advocacy message: "We go to the dentist, we go to the dermatologist to look at our skin. Why don't we go to a pelvic floor therapist for a screening?" This question highlights the unnecessary stigma around pelvic health and encourages a more proactive, normalized approach to this essential aspect of wellbeing.
For anyone navigating pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or pelvic health concerns, this conversation demonstrates the value of finding healthcare providers who collaborate, communicate openly, and prioritize patient education. The friendship between Kate and April serves as a model for how healthcare professionals can work together to provide truly comprehensive care that addresses the whole person, not just isolated symptoms or conditions.
Looking for an Honest Specialist Willing to Leave Ego at the Door?
>> Connect with Dr. April at Revitalize Pelvic PT in Cherry Creek and Littleton, Colorado.
Fear-forward messaging during pregnancy needs disrupting. A powerful sentiment from April's patient: "Thank you for giving me permission to continue lifting, jumping, and running."
If you prefer content in audio format, check out Facilitated Episode 23 | Breaking Barriers for a candid discussion between Functional Medicine Nutritionist Kate Daugherty and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Dr. April Dominick | Listen here
Episode Transcript | FACILITATED 23 "Breaking Barriers: A Candid Talk on Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Pelvic Health with Dr. April Dominick"
Kate: 0:37
Well, we kicked Mitchell out today and I am in the studio having a conversation with my good friend, Dr. April Dominick. April is a doctor of physical therapy with a focus on pelvic floor health. She treats patients out of our clinic inside Kiln Littleton on Wednesdays and she also sees patients in Cherry Creek. We talked a little bit about her role as a clinical educator for ICE, the Institute for Clinical Excellence, and shared plenty of intimate details of my pregnancy and postpartum journey as April's patient. Okay, let it roll. We've only known each other for three years. It feels like an eternity. It really does. I don't think people realize how quickly we clicked.
April: 2:00
I mean, it was pretty instantaneous. I think I met with Mitchell first.
Kate: 2:04
I know I sent him on a coffee date alone to meet you. It was a patient who said you should meet April, and so I don't know why, but I sent Mitchell alone to meet you should we tell? Oh my gosh.
April: 2:23
I mean, this is about our friendship, but Mitchell was I guess it was me and Mitchell first. It's true, he guys. He came, we were meeting in Cherry Creek and we met at Aviano, one of the coffee shops, coffee shops and he came blazing in had Ethel out? Uh, yep, had Ethel. He like attached Ethel to one of the uh benches outside or something. Ethel is his dog. And I didn't exactly know what he looked like because I hadn't done any research on that part, and this booming voice comes through Aviano and I was standing in line and he was like are you April? And that was our, was our first meeting, and we sat outside and he requested to be in the shade. So I not surprising.
Kate: 3:25
Sweated because he put you in the sun, but no it was.
April: 3:32
It was so great, it was so refreshing to meet Mitchell because he was such a provider that I could truly connect with on like our philosophies and he was very open and hearing about mine. And, yeah, it was instant I loved.
Kate: 3:46
To his credit he did. I don't even think he made it back to the clinic. I'm pretty sure he called me on his way back to the clinic which is what three minutes and was gushing about you, you need to meet her. We got to get her in here. I can't wait for you to meet her. She was great, so I think we met like three days later.
April: 4:04
Oh yeah, it was quick. And then, as soon as I walked in, I was like, oh, I love her, Kate. I love like she's my kind of person. And then that first email. If you all have ever gotten an email from Kate, wow, if that doesn't tell you all about Kate, the organization, the in-depthness, the highlighting some positivity, I, yeah, I was like immediately in. I have to be working with these humans, so we got you pretty immediately in.
Kate: 4:33
We had space in our clinic and you were looking for space to treat patients, so you came in. It was a couple, I want to say. A couple of weeks later I peaced out. I was like sorry, I'm gonna go get married, but then I'll be back. So then came back and two weeks later I pull you in my office, hey you got something to tell you hey, april, I'm pregnant.
April: 5:03
And I remember looking across from you like open mouthed as in. What do we is this Well, that's the reason you were one of the like.
Kate: 5:13
I had just met you, but I felt so connected to you and I felt absolutely no judgment coming from you, where it was such a safe space for me to share. Before I knew my own feelings about it. I was scared, of course. I was afraid of judgment. Yeah, it's a big shift. I wasn't ready, I wasn't expecting it, so it was so, so great to just chat that out.
April: 5:41
Yeah, I think the first question I asked you was how are we feeling about it?
Kate: 5:45
Yeah.
April: 5:45
Because, similar to you, I didn't know.
Kate: 5:49
And a lot of the fear was I had uh backing up. I had had surgery two months prior to remove an ovary was really concerned about. Is this even safe to progress with the pregnancy? So what a blessing to go through that. Yeah, thank you for trusting me, yeah, but then I got the firsthand experience of how you treat One of your favorite things to treat.
April: 6:19
Pregnancy and postpartum, mostly because someone who gets pregnant so much like, as you said, as you alluded, there's gonna be a lot of shifts, lots of things are changing emotions, body parts are shifting up, down and around, and also there just seems to be a lot of confusing messaging in regards to movement and what should be done, what shouldn't be done in pregnancy and I love being able to do some myth busting there, but also just kind of come alongside someone in their journey and because things happen head to toe both during pregnancy and during the postpartum period, I like being able to put my ortho and pelvic health physical therapy hat on to address the person all the way through. So I get to keep up so many different skills and oh there's, my foot is aching or I have some back pain or I've got this new shoulder, whatever. And so, yes, I'm treating the pelvic floor, but I'm also getting to work on other pieces with that human yes.
Kate: 7:27
It's a safe space, like you said, all those unanswered questions where there's not a resource to go to Trustworthy resources.
April: 7:39
Yeah, I think a lot of folks out there are, you know, doing their business selling their programs. I think a lot of folks out there are, you know, doing their business selling their programs. And that can be just really confusing to someone when they hear during their pregnancy oh you can't twist and turn, you're going to harm the baby or something like that, and there's just a lot of fear forward messaging that I am on a mission to disrupt and set straight, to disrupt and set straight.
Kate: 8:04
You were so helpful for me just in gaining confidence in exercising throughout the pregnancy. It felt really good for me. I was very fortunate in that way. I didn't have a lot of body pains.
April: 8:19
I think one of the most powerful things that one of my patients told me was thank you for giving me the permission. She was 30 weeks pregnant, I think, or 28 weeks pregnant, and she was like thank you for giving me the permission to continue lifting or to continue jumping or running. These are my passions, where I feel like a lot of people. When they get pregnant, they believe like, oh, I can't do this anymore. I can't do the things that I love anymore, and that's just simply not true.
Kate: 8:47
Yeah, I did miss out on the ski season that year, but you know that's true, you're not wrong. There's also a lot of uh, managing expectations of changing body, and you're so good at that.
April: 9:02
And when it comes to pregnancy, it seems that it's almost like a train, a runaway train, right, like you experience. You're experiencing one thing, and as soon as you maybe get used to that, then another thing comes through and another thing. So, um, figuring out how your body is coping and managing on a day-to-day basis and giving grace to maybe last week I was able to do this movement, or I was, I felt okay here, and then the next week, all of a sudden, everything is to shit, or or then the next week you feel great. So it's like really, really helpful to remember that you are still you inside and that you're just kind of like along for the ride.
Kate: 9:57
As we got closer to delivery date, we really ramped up our time together which is what you do typically with most pregnant patients and our care shifted a lot to managing expectations for delivery and postpartum and I really appreciated that you were so open to the what ifs. Right, we spent a lot of time. What if this doesn't go to plan? We spent a lot of time. What if this doesn't go to plan? And again, the safe space to talk that out was so helpful. It's like you're providing physical care but you provide so much emotional care, totally.
April: 10:36
So for the listeners out there, uh, my undergrad was in psychology so I never wanted to go down that path for, yeah, for the mental health piece of it, but I think it has really prepared me to come alongside someone in these massive like pelvic health journeys.
April: 10:57
Um, but yeah, in around like 34, 36 weeks, I like to do a lot of birth prep for folks who are pregnant, Because, to me, having that education of what could happen is so extremely powerful in easing fears Like, oh, I've heard this before April and I talked about if I possibly am headed for a C-section, here's what I can expect.
April: 11:24
Or if they ask, or if it comes to, we're going to use the vacuum or forceps for a vaginal delivery. Here are some things you can talk with your providers about, ask, advocate for yourself, but a lot of folks there's a lot of respect from the provider, the medical provider, and I think they do a lot to earn that respect. But it's also it's like a two way street, right, like, yes, they are helping deliver your child, but you are also entitled to ask as many questions as you can, and so that is probably one of the number one things that I think is most helpful for birth prep sessions is that education around all the things that could happen, because then you're like, oh, I've heard about this before and it just it's not as scary or fearful at the time is what my patients tell me.
Kate: 12:22
We got close to my delivery day.
April: 12:25
That was. That was a core memory.
Kate: 12:27
Truly, it's one of my core memories because I said hey, april, do you want to come with me?
April: 12:34
I was like I will never pass up an opportunity to hang with Kate. Oh my gosh.
Kate: 12:41
To me it was like a couple hours, but I slept, so Kate. I think I called you maybe at like 5 PM, so Sunday night.
April: 12:55
Uh, yeah. So here's the background, at least from my give me your perspective, because I was. So I was on a backpacking trip it was in July, yeah, and I think it was a hut trip and I was on my way home and we knew this was about like the time I knew this weekend was probably going to happen, Because I was induced.
Kate: 13:15
So I was like I'm going to be induced Saturday, Saturday night.
April: 13:19
And then dot, dot, dot, tbd and I didn't have service. So as soon as we get back into Denver I get some messages from you. I'm like, oh my gosh, we have to drive faster. I said to my friend, and so I went home, showered and I think, yeah, around like maybe even eight ish, eight or 9 PM, I think I hopped over to the hospital and my water broke at 3 pm that day.
Mitchell: 13:44
Okay.
Kate: 13:45
And I know I told you that and I was like so maybe like 5, 6. Yeah, you know.
April: 13:52
So you get there. Little did we know.
Kate: 13:55
I ended up sleeping in the closet. I do have a memory of you climbing out of the closet, like maybe you had a yoga mat that you pulled into the closet to sleep on. So we had me, my husband april, and my doula, who actually didn't. I didn't know my doula my original doula had a emergency and so we had a stand-in doula, so we had three extra people and, of course, the one little hospital, cot yes, in the room. Yeah, couch, maybe yeah, it was a couch right. Yeah, yeah.
April: 14:30
So april was in the closet and people would come in to check on. And kate, they didn't know I was there in the closet some of the hospital staff. Yeah, that was. Thank you so much for letting me into that experience. I learned a lot about you and your perseverance.
Kate: 14:52
All right.
April: 14:53
I mean yeah, you were not giving up at all.
Kate: 14:58
No, we stuck it out until I don't know 3 am, I think.
April: 15:02
And then you took a nap.
Kate: 15:04
I got the epidural and then I did take a nap.
April: 15:07
Yeah, we were all proud of you for that. Yeah, I woke up at six and they told me I was ready. And then it was like into another zone and pre-epidural and just you know, fight those contractions Then try and not fight them. Try and be with them. I remember the epidural itself was tricky.
Kate: 15:40
I don't Okay.
April: 15:42
There were multiple attempts. Great, it was just tough to like. I think you were so ramped up from um trying to, you know, get through those contractions that it was just a little tricky to get the spot that they needed to get. But you were so brave I was like, wow, I can't believe she's. You know, gone through hours and hours and hours of labor and and now here we are finally giving in for an epidural.
Kate: 16:12
It's okay. Like we said, talk through the plan. What if it doesn't go to plan? I was completely okay with it and I'm so thankful things worked out the way they did.
April: 16:22
Yeah, I'm glad I was there for you.
Kate: 16:25
I'm so glad you were there. You heard Lucy in her very, very first scream and she hasn't stopped since then. She's the most beautiful baby.
April: 16:36
I was like how is that possible that a baby can be that gorgeous? Second to wow.
Kate: 16:46
We got to experience postpartum recovery together. Sure did. What a fun journey. I was happy because I got to come. It was like the highlight of my day, that's right, because I wasn't working and I was desperate to be working.
April: 17:01
Yeah.
Mitchell: 17:02
I would bring her with me.
Kate: 17:03
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
April: 17:04
Yeah, that was nice. So, kate, as if anyone knows, kate, she is going to give her all for anything she does in life. She did all throughout pregnancy, stuck to all of her exercises, all the birth prep stuff, and then even postpartum. I feel like you didn't have a ton that you necessarily needed to work on, but there was a little blip of some things, um, and she just I don't know. She was such a great patient in terms of being very curious, being open to suggestions, and it was really fun to work with you because you like in my space we talk about the bowels, the bladder, um intimacy, and there is some overlap between our two professions so it's really.
April: 17:59
It was really fun, like I got to learn a lot from you, um, as I went through my questioning and things like that, and all this to say is that it's so refreshing to have someone who is open-minded and ready to like. Even though there wasn't a ton of stuff that we needed to work on, you still were like very accepting of any advice and recommendations and for your, for what we were working on, for you both, it was a little outside both of our zones. It's okay, you can talk about it.
Kate: 18:31
Okay, I'll let you explain first and then it wasn't until five or six weeks postpartum actually, and I got an anal fissure which is a tear down there, and we had some serious work to do, but I wanted results really quickly, as most people would. It's very painful, yeah, super painful so we I would say this was a little bit of a trial, but we did a liquid diet at the same time as doing a lot of manual therapy in the area.
April: 19:05
And we did some dry needling.
Kate: 19:08
We did some dry needling. We did some red light therapy, did some cupping.
April: 19:13
Oh, yeah, the cupping was fun. That was so fun. That was probably one of my first times to kind of explore okay, we've got some tissue that needs a lot of healing, so I think the dry needling and Easton was really helpful to pump some blood flow to that area, to an area where it is really hard to move that.
Mitchell: 19:30
Right.
April: 19:30
So so we are talking about the muscles, the butthole yeah. Um, that's around the anus and so getting some dialed in therapy. A study had just come out or I had just found this study that talked about here's a protocol for anal fissures and some pretty high success rates. So I think it was that, and all the other pieces that you were open to trying which is what I was referring to earlier that ultimately led to really great success in your in getting your fisscera healed more quickly.
Kate: 20:07
So yeah, and then now we can bridge that to other patients, which has been really cool. I also really like that. When I make a recommendation for a patient to come see April I love that. I have the firsthand experience and I'm very open with patients too I say you know what she's needled? My butthole. We've been there, we've been there, we've been there. But it's such a I was going to say it's a comfortable experience. It's not. I was going to say you make it a comfortable environment for very sensitive therapy. It's not weird at all.
April: 20:47
Yeah, thank you for saying that. It's a nice compliment. Um, I think I have to, of course, because this is first of all, like you have. I mean doing some of these exams, like I do intra vaginal exams, I do inter rectal assessments, intra anal assessments and, um, I mean, you know, day two, meeting someone. It's like, oh, we're what, that's a suggestion, okay, um, so I think I have a playful, lighthearted personality that helps have bring that like comfort to the room, and I'm pretty good at meeting someone where they're at If I'm sensing like, ooh, this person may not be ready for that, we've got 12 other things that we can do, and maybe we never get to any of those assessments, but I I'm always going to tell the person in front of me what I think is the best thing, and if that's not where they want to go, then I'm, I'm following where they are more comfortable going. So, yeah, I'm always going to give the best recommendations, what we know from research, and then allow the person to choose how their sessions unfold.
Kate: 21:59
Yeah, give them that autonomy. We now have a great co-working relationship. I know Wednesdays are such a fun day because April is here in our clinic in Littleton. She treats patients out of kiln. We don't always get to see each other. It's kind of sad because we're so busy we're like passing each other. But it's still fun to like have a coworker You're the closest thing to a coworker besides Mitchell and like thank God we got to blend the family a coworker.
April: 22:27
You're the closest thing to a coworker besides Mitchell and, like, thank God we got to blend the family a little bit. Um, I yeah the the collaboration between us has been so helpful. I've I didn't did not have any sort of functional medicine providers prior to meeting you all, uh, that I could suggest for my patients to come see, and I think it's one of those pieces that I was missing for a long time, because you all do such a phenomenal job of you know working with actual data through labs, and your recommendations like instead of an off the shelf like the people that I did have relationships with were very like oh, here's a packet of labs that we think you should get, and so I love how personalized the approach is that you and Mitchell have, and, honestly, we've shared so many patients and there's no way that these people would have gotten as better if we were working independently, if they didn't have you guys.
Kate: 23:26
And if we didn't have you, yeah, yeah and it's so.
April: 23:29
It's been so cool to learn from you about, like, how nutrition can affect the GI system and how it can come through with their pelvic pain. Working with Mitchell, like I don't know, you guys are all. It's such a perfect pairing.
Kate: 23:44
It is, and it's not so much this or it's this, and it's so great. I love an and not or approach.
Kate: 23:54
Yeah, all right, that's our title, that's our working title and not or the communication between us is great too, because we can get permission from patients to share here's what we're working on, here's what I'm seeing and we can get permission from patients to share. Here's what we're working on, here's what I'm seeing, and we can collaborate on ideas and bounce things off of each other. We recently had a patient who I thought it was really cool that she felt so comfortable coming to us to say, hey, here's where I'm at, here's what I'm still struggling with. Can you guys have a discussion about this and give me your recommendations? She had emailed me specifically and I felt so confident just responding like, yeah, april is going to have no ego in this, definitely not. I can answer to say let's find you someone else to have a different set of eyes on it, knowing this isn't going to hurt April's feelings at all, like she's totally on board. And then we did actually have a conversation about it and it's refreshing.
Kate: 24:58
It is yeah.
April: 24:59
I can't do it all. Like you know, we had made lots of progress in certain areas of her care, had made lots of progress in certain areas of her care, and I'm also really glad that she felt comfortable speaking up and being like hey, I'd love some more ideas for where I can go. Yeah, I love our collaboration. In fact, I've speaking of no ego. I remember one of the very first times you taught me something about Fiverr. Oh gosh, I think the title of the email you sent me was something like just a little bit of education on how you educate about Fiverr, and I think it's so important because, you know, I learn from my physical therapy focused classes, but never have I had input or gotten the opportunity to learn from a functional nutritionist and that that nugget that you gave me about like, instead of suggesting this kind of fiber here's a great alternative because it helps with both constipation and diarrhea, and so I think that was that's. It's actually something that I teach students in our courses.
April: 26:16
I work for a continuing education company and it's been one of a really great pearls to extend to all of those people. So not only have you helped me, but you've also helped hundreds of clinicians. But just being like. I love that you were comfortable enough with me to be like, hey, I. This isn't the best way to target someone's bowel issues. Here are a couple of suggestions and here's some great research to back it up. So you like knew how to talk to me and give me some suggestions without hurting my feelings.
Kate: 26:47
Yeah, and understand how you speak to your patients too, which is great. You have a big focus on education, just like we do, and I think that's why we mesh so well is because education is a core value for you and for everybody for our patients, for ourselves, like seeking education but also educating our patients. I know that you take a lot of courses, but you just told us you teach a lot of courses too. What do you? We've had conversations. You are a TA yes, so a teaching assistant for several of these lower level pelvic floor courses, which is kind of like going back to the basics. It's interesting how much you learn about communication by forcing yourself to answer the basic questions again.
April: 27:43
Yeah, you know, yeah right, right, right, things that I probably don't even think about when I'm going about my day treating patients and then when someone who's first learning about oh, everybody has a pelvic floor, no matter your genitalia tell me about that, and it's like, oh, we got to break things down into more simple terms, but yeah, it's, I love doing that.
April: 28:07
The other big lesson in that is learning how to say I don't know yeah that's been a tough one Because I think I put a lot of pressure on myself to know as much as possible. But sometimes there are certain questions that come up during our courses or even from patients. Actually, I had one the other day that I wrote down and he was he asked me something about I think it was GI related actually and he was like he asked me a question and I just sat there across from him and I said, gosh, this is a great question. I have no idea. That's a great question.
April: 28:43
Let me get back to you and, I think, going back to collaborating with you and Mitchell. I know Mitchell spends hours and hours in coffee shops on the weekends pouring over research articles, trying to better understand and better show up for his patients, or for y'all's patients, and I think that's what I do too. Like there's, I can't know everything because I'm only one person, and that's why, again, it's important to collaborate with so many other providers that I trust, because that and then also do the research on my own to see, hey, has there been any research on X, y, z topic in the past 10 years since I took my very first pelvic course 10 years ago? And there's, yeah, it's a hot topic that lots of folks are doing research on. But, yeah, I do love being humble what are you excited about?
Kate: 29:40
new research, new learnings, new opportunities, new opportunities yes um, I, what am I excited about?
April: 29:48
like today or in the next, I don't know. Today I'm excited about this conversation and that we get more than a five minutes of I know five minutes at lunch.
April: 29:59
Yes, um, I am excited about more folks learning that the pelvic floor exists and that's involved in so many functions, daily functions. I'm excited about upcoming opportunities. I'm working on a little project that will expand pelvic health education to a larger group of clients, so there's going to be a lot of research that I'm digging into over the next year to get ready for that, and so I'm excited for those, for losing myself in the research articles and having even more pearls to share with clients and other providers.
Kate: 30:50
April's method is insane. Her April's preparation and research method is insane. I've gotten a look at like the back end of some of like course planning and not even like courses that you're helping to teach, the effort that you put into it. She gives it her all. You give it your all and more. This is OK. Yeah, I do go. I think we both have the same philosophy. We'd rather do too much than too little.
April: 31:23
Yeah.
Kate: 31:24
To our own detriment, for sure. Yeah, I to our own detriment for sure.
April: 31:27
Yeah, I teach um online two separate courses and then I also teach live pelvic courses to other clinicians, learning about how to treat the pelvic floor, and yeah, that has been such a growing process. I've been doing it for about three years now and it's pretty cool to look back to see my first time that I taught live in front of everybody. To now, I don't prepare as much, which is surprising. It's like wait what? Yeah?
Kate: 32:00
Wow.
April: 32:02
All right, what are you excited about?
Kate: 32:05
I am excited about Okay, about, okay. Well, I'm a nerd cheers to that, so I am excited. I'm playing with gpts, which apparently is a very foreign concept for a lot of people, but you can build your own gpt and my best way of explaining that is it's very similar to like building your own app, so it's like a subset of an, a chat GPT. So you have your own GPT where you input something in it and it exports exactly how you want it to export. So I'm playing with that and it's been really fun, so fun and I'm excited about. I want to share that. We've had a lot of really cool wins lately, so just really positive patient outcomes, and there are some weeks that it isn't like that, of course. I mean, we know the patient journey is never linear and it seems like they all kind of like all the downturns seem to come in the same time and can feel so down. But right now I want to celebrate. There's a lot of all the wins at one time.
April: 33:14
And that's really cool. Positive shifts, healthier mindsets, healthier labs.
Kate: 33:19
It must be the Leo interlude grade. Whatever, just a lion's gate. Good job, I just taught April about clapping and how. That's how we edit our podcasts.
April: 33:29
I'm into it.
Kate: 33:30
I know, okay, we have to jump back right back into patient care Exciting but I want to encourage everybody to go to your Instagram. Your Instagram is amazing for education. You, you're funny, but I would say the undercurrent of your Instagram is education yes, yeah, I try to make it accessible, accessible, yes to folks.
Kate: 33:57
Um, actually fun fact. Did you know? When I recommend a patient see you, I always send them to your Instagram first, versus your website, because I think your Instagram just shows your personality so well and that's what everyone wants. First is like I want to know who I'm going to see.
April: 34:15
Yeah, what does she look like? Is she funny? Can I trust her? All of the above, yes, and yes, and you're going to. If you work with me, you're going to get some great music suggestions as well, because that's my passion in life. So not only are you going to walk away with a strong understanding of your body, head to toe, whether it's pelvic floor or not, but you're also going to hook onto some pretty rad music as well, and my Instagram is revitalize pelvic physio.
Kate: 34:46
Good job. I will put all of that in the show notes.
April: 34:49
Thanks, yeah, as usual. If anyone has any questions, please reach out. I love talking about the pelvic floor. Pelvic health is for all. We go to the dentist, we go to the dermatologist to look at our skin. Why don't we go to a pelvic floor therapist for a screening?
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Meet The Functional Medicine Team behind Facilitated:
Mitchell Rasmussen, DC, CFMP: Mitchell is a certified functional medicine practitioner with a doctorate in chiropractic at The Facility Functional Medicine Clinic in Denver, Colorado.
With lots of letters behind his name, he entered chiropractic with a clear goal: to practice Functional Medicine. His biggest passion is the immune system. He has focused his post-doctoral education on immunology and clinical applications for chronic diseases like Lyme, tick-borne pathogens, viral burden, and mold exposure.
About Kate Daugherty, MS, CNS: Kate is a certified nutrition specialist and functional nutritionist at The Facility Functional Medicine Clinic in Denver, Colorado.
She began her career journey in neuroscience, which seamlessly transitioned into human nutrition. Utilizing food as medicine to treat the mind-body connection is truly remarkable. Kate believes that our eating habits nourish our soul as profoundly as they do our body.
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