Founder: Carine Carmy
Carine launched Origin to solve a problem that affects millions of women, including her. Throughout her 20s, she experienced painful sex and sought care from nearly a dozen doctors, who told her that her pain would hopefully go away over time. She suffered for years, being told that her condition is "just the way it is". Carine realized that what she was going through was also happening to many other women. 1 in 6 women have chronic painful sex, 1 in 3 women experience incontinence, and 1 in 2 women going through menopause suffer from vaginal atrophy. Giving birth is a major physical trauma, and yet there is no national standard for rehab and recovery.
Origin provides women with the care and physical therapy they need to feel good in their bodies. Her team of clinicians use their expert knowledge of a woman's entire body to help solve commonly overlooked health issues, from painful sex to postpartum recovery. Origin offers personalized guidance, targeted exercise, and hands-on work to address the customer's individual goals and needs.
“A lot of patients are coming to us with issues that have never been named before. So some of the core value we offer is actually providing medical validation — there’s a medical diagnosis and there’s a plan and there’s something we can do about it." - Carine
Sources: TechCrunch, Standard, Origin blog, Origin website