Women’s Healthcast: Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy, featuring Sari Archer and Carrie Schwoerer

Pelvic floor physical therapy is a common treatment option that can be immensely helpful for people experiencing pelvic floor issues like incontinence or prolapse. But some patients may be reluctant to consider pelvic floor PT, or unsure about how it works.

Sari Archer and Carrie Schwoerer joined this episode of the Women’s Healthcast to tell us more about pelvic floor disorders, how physical therapy can help, what the process is like, and where physical therapy fits under the broader umbrella of treatment options for pelvic floor issues. Sari Archer is a nurse practitioner in the UW Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. Carrie Schwoerer is a physical therapist and rehabilitation manager with UW Health.

Listen to Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy now. 

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Register for Break Free From Pelvic Floor Disorders Community Talk on November 14

Many of us have questions about topics like bladder and bowel leakage and pelvic organ prolapse, but we may not know how to bring them up. These conditions are common, especially as we get older, but they are not inevitable. 

Please join us on Tuesday, November 14 for an evening of conversation with UW Health Women’s Pelvic Wellness physicians, advanced practice providers, and physical therapists to learn how you can prevent or control symptoms. 

This event will include issue-focused breakout sessions on pelvic organ prolapse, stress urinary incontinence, accidental bowel leakage, overactive bladder, pelvic floor physical therapy, and more.  

November 14, 2023 
6:00-7:15pm (Central)
Virtual event - register here

Presenters:

• Sari Archer, DNP
• Jon Pennycuff, MD, MSPH
• Sarah McAchran, MD
• FPMRS Fellows: Kristina Warner, MD; Ushma Patel, MD
• Physical Therapists: Carrie Schwoerer, Amanda Morrow, Becky McConnell

Learn more and register here!

Archer and Sergeant present at Wisconsin Nursing Association Conference

Sari Archer, NP and Angie Sergeant, NP, both nurse practitioners in the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, presented at the Wisconsin Nursing Association’s 37th annual APRN Pharmacology and Clinical Update in April!

Archer and Sergeant brought the presentation “Pee, Poop, and the Pelvic Floor: They are not taboo subjects!” to the intensive, three-day conference in Madison. Incredible work, Sari and Angie!