Pelvic Floor Exercise: research-based information and quality exercise products to help you achieve a stronger pelvic floor, from Australia's leading pelvic floor resource.
Strong pelvic floor muscles can help you to:
overcome incontinence
prepare for, and recover from, childbirth
overcome sexual difficulties and erection problems
prevent or treat weakness of the bladder and prolapses
Learn more about:
our pelvic floor and how to do your exercises
how to make your pelvic floor exercises really effective
a complete range of pelvic floor exercisers that can help
pelvic pain , prolapse ,recovery from childbirth, hysterectomy and incontinence surgery
Pelvic Floor Exercise: research-based information and quality exercise products to help you achieve a stronger pelvic floor, from Australia's leading pelvic floor resource.
Did you know? Many mothers suffer
from URINARY INCONTINENCE?
Pelvic Floor Exercise featured in two articles in the My Child and Cosmo Pregnancy magazines recently. These are superb articles and highlights the steps you can take to get your pelvic floor in tip top shape.
Click any of the magazine images below to download and read the full articles. (PDF)
My Child Magazine.
One of the most embarrassing health issues a woman can
face is urinary incontinence.
The main cause is a weak pelvic floor
...read more.
Cosmo Pregnancy. Wet yourself laughing lately? Don't let incontinence rain on your preg parade
...read more.
Men's Pelvic Floor Exercises Strong pelvic floor muscles are important for men too. Women have been encouraged to exercise their pelvic floor muscles for decades, but now we understand that it is just as vital for men, and especially for men with specific health issues...more»
Healthy Pelvic Floor Women with healthy pelvic floors should still train up their pelvic floor muscles, according to Dr Pauline Chiarelli, who says people typically lose 30 per cent of muscle strength between ages 27 and 70 because of ageing. "The pelvic floor muscles are like any other muscle in the body. If you don't use it, you'll lose it." "The Australian"
Pelvic Muscle Exercises "Although most women with pelvic floor disorders are familiar with pelvic muscle exercises, less than one fourth could perform adequate contractions at the time of initial evaluation." "Moen MD and others"