I was delighted this week to be contacted by Women’s Health Physiotherapist at La Femme Physio in Kingston upon Thames, Claire Rutherford, who wrote: "...I am a clinical specialist in Women’s Health Physiotherapy and have been reading the great work you’ve been doing and all the sound advice you’ve been giving to women. It’s great [...]
We don’t talk about wee leakage much with our girlfriends. It’s not really thought to be a topic of ‘polite conversation’. But we really should, because despite the apparent taboo, 1 in 3 women aged 35 and over suffers from light bladder leakage. If we talked about it, perhaps we would do more about it! [...]
Did you know that how you stand affects the tone of your pelvic floor? If you want to feel better in about your body, improve butt and pelvic floor tone as well as reduce lower back pain, you need to start with the essentials. This is your postural alignment homework which will directly benefit your pelvic [...]
Should your 'tuck your tailbone' to work your core? No. Here's why. Here's some stuff you may have been told as a kid in ballet class, or just last week by an exercise instructor... cues we have been hearing (and as instructors, taught to teach) for years about how to stand in 'correct posture' or [...]
Sex after childbirth can be a sensitive issue, in more ways than one. That 'giving birth' thing is a life changing event which affects every aspect of your body, your emotions and your relationship with your partner. It may also have been traumatic, physically damaging and painful... so if you're not feeling like doing it [...]
Moms are told all the time *do your pelvic floor exercises!*. But Kegels (named after the gynecologist who invented them, a bloke, incidentally. Go figure...) and pelvic floor exercises can be confusing. You've heard about them so many times, you almost don't like to ask, "HOW do I do pelvic floor exercises?", and WHY are [...]
Pelvic floor exercises. You know you're supposed to do them... you're possibly reminded you really should be doing them when you laugh, sneeze, cough or try to run. But how do you do pelvic floor exercises? Is it just squeezing?? Actually no, and to really tone your undercarriage, we need to move onwards from pelvic [...]
If you've ever been pregnant (which if you're here I'm assuming you probably have) you will have heard of pelvic floor exercises. They're pretty darned important should you wish to hold in your wee for the rest of your days, so well worth genning up on. Pelvic floor exercises are often called Kegels, named after [...]