Are kegels good for your pelvic floor?
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Kegels. Are they good for me? And should I be doing them? It’s another common question. We get at Gymnazo on how to treat your pcns dysfunction. And the answer is yes and no. Kegels can be good for you or bad for you, depending on where your pcns dysfunction is coming from, and what is actually causing it. Kegels are a tightening of the vaginal wall. That squeezing sensation or squeezing together. If you have a tight pelvic floor have too much tension in your hips, kegels can actually make the situation worse because it’s creating more tension in the system that’s already tight. For instance, if I had tight shoulders, and they were shrugged up here the whole time, I wouldn’t prescribe you to do shoulder raises or shoulder shrugs to get the system to loosen up. If I didn’t have enough tension in the system or it was too loose, I need to create a higher tension rate in my pelvic floor then I might prescribe you to do kegels. So it just depends on kind of where your dysfunction is coming from. Kegels also have been prescribed to do for incontinence or controlling bladder leaking through the bladder. But your bladder is actually its own muscles. So your brain controls your bladder all by itself, which is why I reiterate that the pelvic core neuromuscular system is a neuromuscular connection. So from brain to bladder, you have to reestablish a connection there. You don’t control your bladder through your vaginal wall so kegels can be harmful or useless, essentially, when trying to treat for incontinence. What we definitely recommend is taking a 3d movement assessment with us if you’re experiencing a lot of pcns dysfunction. It’ll help us identify what areas we need to target or where your individual pcns dysfunction is actually coming from.
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