Restoring The Pelvic Floor

This book is for any woman who has avoided the trampoline or yoga class for fear of urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. If you have pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, vulvodynia, lichen sclerosis, endometriosis, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), MRKH, or tailbone pain (coccydynia), this book is for you. If you suffer from constipation, urinary urgency, urinary frequency, or overactive bladder, this book is also for you. This book quickly and easily teaches you how to manage conditions related to the pelvic floor, bladder, uterus, and bowel directly from a certified pelvic floor physical therapist who regularly treats women just like you in her clinic. With a tasteful sense of humor, and compassion, Dr. Olson explains how to cure urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse using different types of Kegels. If you're prone to urinary urgency, you'll learn which foods to avoid. Constipated? Dr. Olson will teach you how to solve it. The pelvic floor muscles are a vital system of muscles that support the pelvic organs (bladder, uterus, and rectum). These muscles can be too weak, too tight, or have poor coordination that can lead to issues with urination, defecation, pelvic pain, and intercourse. The good news is that these issues are solvable with natural remedies. Furthermore, learn how a pelvic physical therapist in your area can provide additional one on one help and specific kinds of treatment to address women's health issues. Chapters include: 1. Introduction to the Pelvic Floor, Organs, Kegels and Women's Health 2. Urinary Incontinence: Why Do I Pee When I Sneeze? 3. Urinary Frequency and Urgency: Why Do I Have to Pee Every Time I Turn Around? 4. Bladder Irritants: Why What You Eat and Drink Can Be Irritating 5. Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Why It Feels Like Your Organs are Falling Out of Your Body 6. Kegels, Pelvic Floor and Core Strengthening 7. Constipation 8. Pelvic Pain 9. The Importance of Breathing 10. To Infinity and Beyond: Thoughts on Women's Health for the Future If you are trying to find a natural way of curing common women's health issues and avoid surgery, this book is for you. Find out how breathing, down training the pelvic floor, vaginal dilator training and specific pelvic exercises can help with pelvic pain. Pelvic floor exercise for beginners and more advanced kegel exercises for progression are demonstrated, and most importantly which exercises are most beneficial to women's health. Curious about kegel exercise products, such as which kegel balls for beginners are best? Dr. Olson has you covered. She also explains which kegel trainer and pelvic floor strengthening devices for women are best to help you achieve your goals. Chapter 6 discusses abs, core, and pelvic floor while chapter 8 helps you heal pelvic pain. Chapters end with real world, anonymous examples of patients Dr. Olson has healed with the techniques found in this book. If you have issues related to pelvic floor dysfunction, this pelvic floor book will teach you the pelvic floor therapy necessary to feel results.

Bronze Medal Winner of a 2009 National Health Information Award Stop your pelvic pain . . . naturally! If you suffer from an agonizing and emotionally stressful pelvic floor disorder, including pelvic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, prostatitis, incontinence, or discomfort during sex, urination, or bowel movements, it's time to alleviate your symptoms and start healing--without drugs or surgery. Natural cures, in the form of exercise, nutrition, massage, and self-care therapy, focus on the underlying cause of your pain, heal your condition, and stop your pain forever. The life-changing plan in this book gets to the root of your disorder with: A stretching, muscle-strengthening, and massage program you can do at home Guidelines on foods that will ease your discomfort Suggestions for stress- and pain-reducing home spa treatments Exercises for building core strength and enhancing sexual pleasure

This book is for any woman who has avoided the trampoline or yoga class for fear of urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. If you have pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, vulvodynia, lichen sclerosis, endometriosis, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), MRKH, or tailbone pain (coccydynia), this book is for you. If you suffer from constipation, urinary urgency, urinary frequency, or overactive bladder, this book is also for you. This book quickly and easily teaches you how to manage conditions related to the pelvic floor, bladder, uterus, and bowel directly from a certified pelvic floor physical therapist who regularly treats women just like you in her clinic. With a tasteful sense of humor, and compassion, Dr. Olson explains how to cure urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse using different types of Kegels. If you're prone to urinary urgency, you'll learn which foods to avoid. Constipated? Dr. Olson will teach you how to solve it. The pelvic floor muscles are a vital system of muscles that support the pelvic organs (bladder, uterus, and rectum). These muscles can be too weak, too tight, or have poor coordination that can lead to issues with urination, defecation, pelvic pain, and intercourse. The good news is that these issues are solvable with natural remedies. Furthermore, learn how a pelvic physical therapist in your area can provide additional one on one help and specific kinds of treatment to address women's health issues. Chapters include: 1. Introduction to the Pelvic Floor, Organs, Kegels and Women's Health 2. Urinary Incontinence: Why Do I Pee When I Sneeze? 3. Urinary Frequency and Urgency: Why Do I Have to Pee Every Time I Turn Around? 4. Bladder Irritants: Why What You Eat and Drink Can Be Irritating 5. Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Why It Feels Like Your Organs are Falling Out of Your Body 6. Kegels, Pelvic Floor and Core Strengthening 7. Constipation 8. Pelvic Pain 9. The Importance of Breathing 10. To Infinity and Beyond: Thoughts on Women's Health for the Future If you are trying to find a natural way of curing common women's health issues and avoid surgery, this book is for you. Find out how breathing, down training the pelvic floor, vaginal dilator training and specific pelvic exercises can help with pelvic pain. Pelvic floor exercise for beginners and more advanced kegel exercises for progression are demonstrated, and most importantly which exercises are most beneficial to women's health. Curious about kegel exercise products, such as which kegel balls for beginners are best? Dr. Olson has you covered. She also explains which kegel trainer and pelvic floor strengthening devices for women are best to help you achieve your goals. Chapter 6 discusses abs, core, and pelvic floor while chapter 8 helps you heal pelvic pain. Chapters end with real world, anonymous examples of patients Dr. Olson has healed with the techniques found in this book. If you have issues related to pelvic floor dysfunction, this pelvic floor book will teach you the pelvic floor therapy necessary to feel results.

Incontinence affects four out of 10 women, about one out of 10 men, and about 17% of children below age 15. The most common reason for admitting a family member to a nursing home is the family's inability to cope with incontinence. It is estimated that in the US incontinence costs 26 billion dollars a year.While it is common to exercise many parts of the body to stay fit, very little attention is paid to exercising the pelvic floor. Many exercises exist for the general fitness of the body, strengthening of the arms and legs and the abdominal and back muscles. Finding fun exercises for the pelvic floor involves searching through a great deal of literature; finding exercises suitable for men, women, and children that are fun and effective appears to be impossible. This book should provide therapists with treatment ideas and encourage patients to ask for help. It focuses on exercises and discusses other treatment options.

"Many women suffer in silence from distressing pelvic floor problems including incontinence and prolapse. Staying active and exercising can be confronting and challenging for these women...The right kind of exercise allows women to address pelvic floor problems, improved pelvic support, and exercise with confidence and control..."--Publisher description.

Bridging the gap between evidence-based research and clinical practice, Physical Therapy for the Pelvic Floor has become an invaluable resource to practitioners treating patients with disorders of the pelvic floor. The second edition is now presented in a full colour, hardback format, encompassing the wealth of new research in this area which has emerged in recent years. Kari Bø and her team focus on the evidence, from basic studies (theories or rationales for treatment) and RCTs (appraisal of effectiveness) to the implications of these for clinical practice, while also covering pelvic floor dysfunction in specific groups, including men, children, elite athletes, the elderly, pregnant women and those with neurological diseases. Crucially, recommendations on how to start, continue and progress treatment are also given with detailed treatment strategies around pelvic floor muscle training, biofeedback and electrical stimulation. aligns scientific research with clinical practice detailed treatment strategies innovative practice guidelines supported by a sound evidence base colour illustrations of pelvic floor anatomy and related neuroanatomy/ neurophysiology MRIs and ultrasounds showing normal and dysfunctional pelvic floor incorporates vital new research and material uses key summary boxes throughout new edition to highlight quick reference points now in full colour throughout and a hardback format

This is the first pelvic floor health book aimed at ALL women, including trans women, outlining the importance of understanding your pelvic floor and how it impacts on overall health, fitness and wellbeing for life - not just around pregnancy and childbirth. This book outlines symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction, and shows you how to fix them. What is pelvic organ prolapse - which 50% of women will experience - and can it be prevented? Urinary incontinence is treatable with physio. Women on average suffer symptoms for 7 years before going to a healthcare professional which has a huge effect on mental health. Pelvic floor issues are often only talked about in relation to pregnancy and childbirth. This is not just a "mum issue": high impact exercise (running, HIIT, CrossFit) affect the pelvic floor. Young athletes/gymnasts who have never had children are highly likely to suffer from incontinence. Women should not accept dysfunction as a "normal part of being a woman", but instead need to prioritize their pelvic floor health - this book shows that it is never too early and, crucially, never too late to do so.

Pelvic floor problems, such as incontinence, are not normal in women at any age, and there are multiple solutions to relieve symptoms. In A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Health a urologist and a physical therapist offer expert and reassuring advice to women. For example, one of every four women suffers from urinary incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine. Elizabeth E. Houser and Stephanie Riley Hahn want these women to know that they do not have to cope in silence with this embarrassing problem, limit their lifestyle, or spend thousands of dollars on adult diapers. Symptoms involving the pelvic floor, including urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and decreased sexual sensation, can occur at any age. A wide range of treatments, such as targeted exercises, nutrition, and acupuncture, as well as medications and surgical approaches, can bring relief. Case studies and illustrations help readers explore the cause of their own symptoms and how treatments work. A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Health encourages women to address their pelvic floor issues and reclaim their lives.

Your Pelvic Health Book is a guide to better understanding your pelvic floor, bladder, bowel, and sexual health, as well as changes that can occur during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This book contains tips for people with vaginas and/or uteruses through various ages and stages. This book is written by a pelvic floor physical therapist, Jen Torborg, who has a passion for sharing conversational-style general pelvic health tips. Topics include: Anatomy and physiology of the bladder, bowel, and sexual/reproductive systems as it pertains to vaginas and uteruses. The pelvic floor: why it is important, and how to contract, relax, and lengthen the pelvic floor muscles to your advantage, how the pelvic floor is coordinated to your breathing, posture and movement patterns. How product choices can affect your pelvic health. Bladder health: healthy bladder habits and how to treat urinary frequency, urgency, and leakage. Bowel health: healthy bowel movement patterns and how to address bowel dysfunctions (such as pain, constipation, IBS, gas or fecal incontinence) Sexual health: safe and healthy sex experiences and how to treat unwanted pain with sex The physiology behind menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause, and the difference between normal changes and treatable symptoms How physical therapy and other resources can help before and after pelvic and abdominal surgery, and with pelvic organ prolapse or diastasis recti abdominis.

If you're like a lot of people, you've probably wondered why doctors and health professionals recommend Kegels. Truth is, there are a lot of health benefits associated with performing Kegels. Kegel exercises are one of the exercises that can strengthen your pelvic floor. Your pelvic region is the area that holds your reproductive organs. In this book, you will quickly discover the health benefits of Kegel exercises and how you can perform optimally.