I’m Kim Snyder. I’m a physical therapist for the Urogynecology and Pelvic Rehab Clinic here at the Women’s Hospital. I’ve been a physical therapist for almost twenty five years.
Twenty five years of that have been in pelvic health, and, the last fifteen years also have been a doula. What drew me to pelvic health is when I was a new grad. I just finished physical therapy school. I was working in a hospital in outpatient services and started working with pregnant women.
And they started asking me a lot of questions, questions that I felt as a therapist we should know. And I started going to continuing education and found out that there is this whole world that we’re missing below the belt. So I started on my path, it was back in nineteen ninety, and, have been going at it ever since. The most rewarding part of being a public health therapist is seeing someone who has pain and, isn’t getting answers for their pain or really struggling with intercourse, intimacy, even just doing daily tasks or childcare, and being able to take that person through their rehab journey and be able to see them thrive, not just through intimacy, but also just in everyday life, and be able to get back to their life with less worry about what’s happening below.