Using apps and exercises, women and men can benefit from keeping their pelvic floor muscles healthy
Not everyone’s does. Suzanne Hagen, professor of health services research at Glasgow Caledonian University, says there is little research to show the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises as a preventive measure, although they did help to reduce symptoms in women with early stages of prolapse. Pregnant women should do strengthening exercises, and so should peri- and postmenopausal women, even if they don’t have symptoms. But if you haven’t given birth (either vaginally or by C-section), or had pelvic or abdominal surgery (male or female) and you don’t have symptoms of a weak pelvic floor such as incontinence or prolapse, you may not need to do them, says Lucy Allen, a pelvic health physiotherapist. Overworking the muscles can lead to pain. “We see issues in people whose pelvic floor doesn’t fully relax,” she says.
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