What is pelvic floor health?
What is pelvic floor health? What connection does the pelvic floor have with your core muscles? What can physical therapy and the Total Control® program do to help you? What can you do to help yourself? More than a “Kegel class”, the Total Control® program is built around the Pelvic Pyramid, a concept developed by Canadian physiotherapist Diane Lee, which includes the transversus abdominus, the multifidii & the pelvic floor muscles.
Some symptoms of a weak pelvic floor include; Leaking small amounts of urine when coughing, sneezing, laughing or running, Backache, and reduced sensation in the vagina. Pregnancy, childbirth, obesity and the straining of chronic constipation can weaken the pelvic floor and cause urinary incontinence. Dr. Ivan Huergo and Anna Albrecht recently discussed the Total Control® program . This medically-based fitness and educational program has been shown in research to boost sex, flatten tummies, improve bladder control. Total Control® can change your life!
Total Control is a flagship program of the Women’s Health Foundation, based in Chicago, that develops programs that help women “out of the water closet and into the gym” if they were experiencing bladder control symptoms. WHF is committed to sponsor research around Total Control®, to put on programs centered in pelvic health and fitness and to bring Total Control® to women everywhere. The Total Control® Program pilot was run at a YMCA in Denver with great success. In over the 100 women studied,over 70% of women improved their quality of life and over 30% had a complete reduction of stress urinary incontinence.
Why is Pelvic floor health important? By improving and maintaining your Pelvic floor health you give yourself the best opportunity to diminish the risk of overuse injuries and repetitive strains. Pelvic health is the absence of dysfunction in the organs that it houses. The total control program breaks down the mystery surrounding the pelvic floor musculature, according to Anna Albrecht.
Bladder Control is no accident. Is this for you? An estimated 1 in 4 adults with bladder control problem seeks help with this issue only after deciding that it will not go away on its own. Women suffering from urinary incontinence are more at risk for multiple setbacks; falls while running to the bathroom, for urinary tract infections and associated complications. The Total Control® Program includes a series of exercises design to strengthen the 3 supporting muscles of the Pelvis taught throughout the US and Canada in hospitals gyms and physical therapy offices. For more information you can visit www.totalcontrolprogram.com.
It is important to understand what type of urinary incontinence you may have so that you can develop and plan to help you manage.