Pelvic floor. Performance? What it means

Tight Pelvic floor ? Join our motivational workout All this week I’m talking the lesser spoken about overactive pelvic floor We often hear about a weak pelvic floor and it’s symptoms but what about an overactive pelvic floor? There’s often a misunderstanding between the stronger your pelvic floor is the better and something being good for you must mean that more is always better . Let’s start by discussing and understanding the difference between a weak / functional / over active pelvic floor If you think of the pelvic floor as a hammock with your organs sitting on the top. When they have impact on top (movement/sneezing/jumping) you would want there to be enough tension in the hammock for the organs to be supported Too little tension in the hammock would allow the organs to sag, be less supported and descend lower Too much tension in the hammock would mean that the fibres of the hammock itself would be constantly working and in a muscle this would lead to tiredness and burn out This is why sometimes women can have symptoms that would may be linked with a weak pelvic floor (incontinence/urgency/needing to double void/constipation/pain during intercourse/back ache/coccyx pain) – but it may well be that the pelvic floor is overworking and that’s the reason it is weak So in this case doing more kegels and “strengthening work” without paying attention to the balance of also letting go can only exacerbate the issue How can you tell if you have a weak pelvic floor or an overactive one? Look for the symptoms above and go to seek the opinion of a women’s health physiotherapist who will physically assess you (this is no more invasive than a smear test and will give you so much more feedback than your own guess work) Join Heidi vandenBroek if you feel you would like to learn more before seeing a physio then this is the place! She has been supporting and education women since 2012 Once you have the answer of which (and it may be a combination of both) then it’s time to use exercise/movement to help Join us, sample the upcoming postnatal support workshop about your personal approach about your pelvic floor and diastasis designed and delivered by Heidi Who is also the original creator of Bodysync Pilates new direction in menopause and offers live classes, a community and courses all online and at a Pilates reformer studio based in London !

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