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Pelvic Floor Check List - Things You Must Know
What are the things that can weaken my pelvic floor?"
Impact Exercise
Every time you jog, run or do other high impact exercise 20 pounds of organs push on your pelvic floor.
Many runners, athletes and professional sportswomen have problems with leaking urine.
Being Overweight
Every pound you are carrying over and above what would be your normal body mass places an extra load on the structures of the pelvic floor.
Increased body mass = Increased leaking
Urinary tract infections
If resting tone of pelvic floor muscles is weak, the urethra is not kept tight to keep out germs.
If pelvic floor is not supporting local tissues then blood supply may be less, increasing chance of infection.
Menopause
"the straw that breaks the camel's back"
Lifetime stress and strain have weakened your pelvic muscle
Special receptors within bladder and urethra that need oestrogen to function properly
Oestrogen drops
Resulting in incontinence
Medications
Antihistamines
Antidepressants
Diuretics
Sedatives/muscle relaxants
Anticholinergics
Calcium channel blockers
Other Risk Factors
Constipation
Smoking
Diabetes
Hysterectomy
Incontinence is expensive, don't let it happen to you. It's not natural
$16.3 Billion spent on incontinence in the U.S. every year
Cost is greater than all cancer care for women
Panty Pads, Medication, Surgery, Sanitary Towels.
The PC Muscle is a "Voluntary Muscle" it Strengthens With Exercise
Great news! The pelvic floor muscles easily strengthen with exercise, so it essential that you exercise them.
Do Kegels!
Check with your nurse, doctor or health practitioner for if you are not sure you are doing the exercises correctly.
Alternatively buy a
biofeedback device,
this has a probe which you insert, you then perform your pelvic floor exercise and the hand-held machine tells you how strong your pelvic muscles are. When you know this you can change the way you exercise to get the best results possible. Remember the problem we all have is that we THINK we are performing the exercises correctly, but in reality we aren't!
Age is no barrier to success in pelvic floor retraining. Old age and incontinence do not have to go hand in hand.
Aids to Kegeling and Pelvic Floor Exercising
Vaginal Weights or
"cones"
such as
Aquaflex Cones.
Biofeedback device,
such as the
Simplex.
Electrical Stimulation
such as the
Kegel8
the
Athena Pelvic Muscle Trainer
or the
Femetone
- more are listed below.
Don't do things to weaken your pelvic floor muscles
If you run or do high impact exercise be sure to do Kegels
Keep your weight at a normal level
Re-educate your pelvic muscles after childbirth
Choose To Take Care of Pelvic Floor Muscles Yourself
Maintaining a strong pelvic floor is a lifetime commitment, that will reap wonderful rewards
Weak pelvic muscles really can interfere with your quality of life.
You have a choice and the power to strengthen and regain your pelvic control
Don't miss life's opportunities because of pelvic floor weakness, kegel exercises are fast, simple and hugely effective.
Don't delay, start today!
Kegel8 - tight for life!
The menopause will weaken your pelvic floor muscles, with the
Kegel8 Pelvic Exerciser
your pelvic floor muscles are kept tight and healthy - you'll see results in just weeks! Start exercising with your
Kegel8 Pelvic Exerciser
today and enjoy the change!
Kegel8 - Exercise made easy!
Do you avoid exercise due to bladder weakness? Feel free to enjoy exercise with the
Kegel8 Pelvic Exerciser
. The
Kegel8 Pelvic Exerciser
locates the correct muscles and does the squeeze and release exercises for you with results in just weeks! Enjoy and increase your exercise quota, with the confidence you'll gain from using the
Kegel8 Pelvic Exerciser
AquaFlex Vaginal Cones - Pelvic Floor Exercise System
70% of cases of stress incontinence can be cured or improved by using weighted vaginal cones, such as
AquaFlex Vaginal Cones
. Simple to use the
AquaFlex Pelvic Floor Exercise System
takes just 20 minutes, once a day, if used daily, a woman can expect results in just 12 weeks
Athena - Cordless Pelvic Exerciser
See the
Athena
as featured on GMTV's This Morning.
This Morning
(2.7MB download) with Fern Britton and Dr Chris Steele discussing bladder weakness and featuring the Athena Pelvic Muscle Trainer.
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