Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC | Women's Voices For Change

Good Posture: How to Gain and Maintain It

By Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

Supplementing Dr James Wyss's article of last Monday, "The Hazards of a Misaligned Spine," this week's Medical Monday offers three helpful postural exercises suggested by Evelyn Hecht, a licensed physical therapist and frequent contributor to Women’s Voices for Change.

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Dr. Pat Consults: Painful Intercourse After Menopause, Part 2—Remedies

By Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD and Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

In today’s article, licensed physical therapist Evelyn Hecht explains how working to lengthen the pelvic-floor muscles can help restore a woman’s ability to have pleasurable, rather than painful, intercourse.

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Dr. Pat Consults: Painful Intercourse After Menopause, Part 1

By Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD and Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

A menopausal woman loses approximately 70 percent of her estrogen levels, and when she has not had intercourse for three years, this combination causes the pelvic-floor muscles to tighten, making intercourse painful. The old motto "Use it or lose it" is very applicable here!

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Dr. Pat Consults on Physical Therapy: Putting Yourself in Good Hands

By Evelyn Hecht, PT, ATC

There is a considerable difference in credentials—academic study, hands-on training, licensing—between a physical therapist and a personal trainer. To explain that difference, Dr. Pat calls on Evelyn Hecht, a licensed physical therapist with a private practice in New York City.