Returning to Impact Postpartum
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Hi ladies, I’m here to talk to you today about when to return back to running after giving birth, a lot of new moms are really eager to jump right back into things, whether it’s running, or working out in or things that involve a lot of impact. Doctors can tell us a variety of things they say maybe six weeks after giving birth, or some doctors say when you turn to your normal menstrual cycle, but we know that every woman has a different birth experience, which means that your experience back to normalcy will also be different. Your pregnancy has a lot to do with your recovery. Did you have multiple births, did you have a C section, did you have an episiotomy, all those things affect the pcns will affect how your body heals and recovers, especially when you’re trying to get back to impact. One thing that a lot of women don’t know is you have a hormone that runs through your body called relaxin. And that can stay in this system for up to six months after you stop breastfeeding. But what relaxin does it relaxes the tissues essentially, so you have a lack of tension in your connective tissues, which means it affects your internal organs as well. So if you still have relaxing in your system, which you will, if you’re still breastfeeding, when you go to run, there’s going to be a lack of tension in the system. And you might feel that like you just drink a bunch of water, you got stuff sloshing around around your pelvic floor, that pelvic bowl, so it’s going to be uncomfortable to do all that running. Now, even though it might feel okay to run. If you’re still running, you haven’t prepared the body for running after giving birth, you might not feel pain in effects right away. But you can certainly experience pain and effects in pcns dysfunction. Later on. Things like pelvic organ prolapse or incontinence are really really common with women who returned to running too soon or returned to impact too soon. In addition, gravity is not our friend, especially after giving birth, gravity’s gonna pull all those internal organs into that pelvic bowl. And if you’re somebody who’s had an episiotomy, where that tissue hasn’t quite healed, yet are still working to heal, the more pressure you put into your pelvic bowl and onto that pelvic floor, the more discomfort you’re going to create. And it’s going to be worse for you, the longer you continue to do that. So what we have is a running progression where we actually use gravity in our favor, we actually were running progression where you’re not even upright, you’re pro so you’re on your hands and your feet on the floor, because what that does is it works with gravity to tilt your pelvis so that your organs are actually sitting where they’re supposed to be. So you’re not having gravity pull that system down into your pelvic floor. So we have a whole running progression with jumping, hopping, leaping stepping that if you can do that in the proposition on the floor without any pain and it feels great. And we will push you through that major See, then you’re probably going to run so if you’re a new mom and who’s looking to get back into running or impact come see us and try out our running matrices.
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