Pelvic Floor Exercise & Kegels

  1. 3 Steps to Leak Free Gym Sessions

    3 things you can do to stop leaking at the gym.    

    Do you leak when you exercise? Do you make an excuse not to attend if your gym session includes running, skipping or, even worse, double unders and box jumps?

    This is called Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and you are not alone, but there are solutions!

    A recent study1 of over 4500 women found that 46% had stopped exercise they previously enjoyed due to their pelvic floor symptoms. Of these, 41% reported the reason to be SUI.

    Many long term health issues can result from not exercising. For females in particular, due to hormonal fluctuations throughout life’s stages, lack of exercise can affect bone strength, muscle mass and c

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  2. Aquaflex is no longer available - what are the alternatives?

    Aquaflex is no longer available - what are the alternatives?

    Aquaflex Pelvic Floor Exercise System has been a favourite easy- to -use set of pelvic floor or kegel weights for decades.
    Sadly production was recently ceased without warning and I have been fielding many questions as to what do we use now?!

    There have always been many alternatives so let's look at what you might want to consider whether for yourself, or if you are a clinician, for your patients.

    For a long time we have had a pelvic floor weight comparison chart on our website which you can view here.
    I created this in response to the "which vaginal weights are best for me / my patient?" question. The answer to that is .....it depends.
    There never has been just one brand that is best.


    The choice of weight should sit squarely with the answer to "what is the width of the genital hiatus?"

    The hiatal width is the

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  3. 3 Common Myths About Pelvic Floor Health

    pelvic floor myths

    The weak bladder fallacy is interesting and one I suspect finds its roots in our vernacular language – just as the term “slipped disc” is common lay terminology although anatomically incorrect. The “weak bladder” has similar familiarity: we know what Sally means when she says “Oh I have such a weak bladder” but it is anatomically and physiologically incorrect....

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