06/25/2025
What the heck is a pelvic floor?🤔
🤍The pelvic floor is composed of a “sling group” of muscles- levator ani and coccygeus muscle group. This is further divided into the muscles of the pelvic diaphragm, perineal membrane and perineal pouch.
🩵These muscles play a crucial role in supporting your organs, providing stability to the spine and pelvis and maintaining continence. They also require endurance for laughing, coughing, sneezing, lifting, etc.
😓Pelvic floor dysfunction happens when these muscles cannot fully contract or relax on cue. This can happen to any woman whether they have had a baby or not. Common risk factors include poor posture, injury, pregnancy/ birth, asthma/ chronic coughing, heavy lifting, surgery, etc.
😰If ignored, these symptoms can lead to urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, dyspareunia as well as pelvic girdle pain and/ or low back pain.
💪🏼Proper training of these muscles can aid in prevention of issues down the road as well as improving any existing issues.
🫶🏼All of our Post Partum moms are always highly recommended to have a pelvic floor assessment done before we begin training. (I also highly recommend this to our non PP clients as well!) This assessment helps to catch issues early and provide support in and out of training.
🌱For my Norfolk girlies I highly reccomend Karen at Thrive Pelvic Health in Simcoe!
🫐For my Hamilton girls- Blueberry Therapy Pelvic Health is phenomenal!
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