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I’m a pelvic health physical therapist who empowers children and adults to live a full life that includes freedom from pain and shame surrounding bowel and bladder health. 

I am a board-certified clinical specialist in women’s health. My training encompasses pelvic health care for people of all genders and sexuality. This includes extensive continuing education regarding the treatment of bowel and bladder dysfunction in children (bedwetting, daytime leaks, constipation, fecal smearing/accidents).

I know a lot about what goes on in the pelvis and how it affects movement and overall health! But, when I started my physical therapy doctorate at Grand Valley State University in 2014, I had no idea. I had just completed my undergraduate degree in Exercise Science from Indiana University which included a rigorous background in chemistry, biology, psychology, anatomy, and physiology... but, the space between the navel and the thigh had largely been ignored!

It was not until after graduate school, when I was taking continuing education courses in pelvic health, that I began to understand the pelvic floor and its massive impact on bowel, bladder, sexual function, and the movement system. 

Access to high-quality information about how sex, peeing, pooping, and farting work should not be limited to people with a graduate degree. It is foundational knowledge for overall health and should be available to everyone!

As a clinician, I know that there are a lot of people out there who leak urine when they laugh, have painful poops, have a “small bladder”, have painful sex, are chronically constipated, and more. I treat these issues on a daily basis! 

I also know there are a lot of constraints to accessing high-quality physical therapy care to address these issues. Whether the barrier is time, finances, fear, physical, mental, emotional, location, or knowledge (sometimes we don’t realize there’s a solution to our problem or that a problem exists in the first place!), my goal is to meet you where you are.

There’s a lot of physical, mental, and emotional pain that goes along with issues in the pelvis. It can be really hard to talk to family and friends about your pooping problem! And sometimes it can be hard to know you have a problem BECAUSE no one is talking about it.

I am on a mission to make these conversations easier and more normal. We should all have a basic understanding of how our bodies function. For one reason or another peeing, pooping, and sex tend to either get glossed over or skipped entirely across all levels of education. My purpose with everything I do is to empower people of all ages, genders, and sexualities to understand how their bodies should function and to have the confidence to ask for help from a qualified professional if something isn’t working correctly. 

In love and care,

Dr. Katharine Cline

PT, DPT, PRPC, CIMT
Board Certified Women's Health Clinical Specialist