.png)
Interacting with Interoception - What We're Missing in Pelvic Health (Part 1)
What if we're missing an entire SENSE when we're evaluating our pelvic health patients? 🤯
Pelvic PT Rising: The pelvic health tools to make you a better clinician and/or a more successful business owner. We want every single pelvic health practitioner to be more confident and successful in your practice and career!
Clinical Courses: Game-changing online courses to make you more confident, challenge your thinking and improve patient outcomes
Business Resources: Helping 500+ pelvic health practitioners confidently start, grow and build their dream business!
What if we're missing an entire SENSE when we're evaluating our pelvic health patients? 🤯
We all know the traditional five senses. But what about the eighth sense—interoception?
Interoception is how our nervous system receives, processes, and interprets information from inside our bodies. And Nicole thinks it's one of the most overlooked concepts in pelvic rehab.
Because here's the thing: Two patients can have the exact same symptom and need completely different treatments.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we're diving into the science of interoception and how it should change the way we think about our patients.
We're talking about:
🧠 What IS interoception? — Understanding the body's internal signaling system and why it matters for bladder, bowel, pain, sexual function, and more.
🚽 It's not just about potty training! — Why interoception matters just as much for adults with pelvic health conditions as it does for kids learning to recognize bladder and bowel urges.
🔍 The five components of interoception — Sensitivity, accuracy, attention, interpretation, and response. Five different places where things can go wrong—and where we can potentially intervene.
⚡ When normal sensations become threatening — How previous experiences, emotions, and expectations can turn something like bladder filling into a source of anxiety or panic.
💧 Why urge suppression isn't always the answer — Two patients with urinary urgency may have very different underlying problems. Are we asking enough questions to tell the difference?
🧩 The connection to pain science — How the principles we've learned about pain perception can help us understand other internal sensations, from constipation to prolapse heaviness.
❤️ Interoception and neurodivergence — Why patients with ADHD, autism, or other sensory processing differences may experience and respond to internal signals differently.
The big takeaway? We need to stop treating symptoms as if they tell us the whole story.
Instead, we need to understand how our patients are actually experiencing, interpreting, and responding to those symptoms.
Because better questions lead to better clinical reasoning—and ultimately more individualized treatment.
And this is just Part 1!
Next week, we're getting practical: How do we actually assess and treat interoceptive differences in the clinic?
🎤 PelviCon 2027 Is Coming!
Want to learn from some of the brightest minds in pelvic health?
Get on the waitlist for PelviCon 2027 so you don't miss your chance at in-person tickets or our Live Virtual option!
👉 Join the waitlist: www.pelvicon.com
All of the Rising clinical courses are designed to:
Challenge the way you think
Make you more confident in your clinical practice.
Allow you to go-at-your-own pace (all online!)
Let you go back to your work: you'll have lifetime access to the lectures and handouts. Check out all the clinical courses we offer (www.pelvicptrising.com/clinical).
Curious about private practice? Check out our Business Resources
We've now helped more than 200 cash-based pelvic health practices start and grow.
We want to make sure you're building a business that works for you (instead of vice-versa) and actually enjoy the process along the way!
See all the business resources we offer (www.pelvicptrising.com/business), tailored specifically to pelvic health!
Nicole Cozean, PT, DPT, WCS
Founder of Pelvic PT Rising and PelvicSanity Physical Therapy in Southern California.
Dedicated to forever changing pelvic health with online clinical courses to help you be more confident in your practice and business resources to help start and grow pelvic health businesses.
Jesse Cozean, MBA
Co-founder of the Pelvic PT Rising and the Rising Podcast.
Jesse uses his business experience to help pelvic health business owners start and grow their practices so they can build a practice that truly works for them. From website design, SEO, conversions, marketing, finance and money mindset, he wants to make the process of owning your own practice easier and fun.
Comments