Your pelvic floor muscles lie inside the pelvic bones.
The deeper layer of muscle sits directly underneath the prostate and help maintain your urinary continence.
The more superficial layer can be felt at the base if your testes and it helps to maintain an erection and pushes out the last few drops of urine in the tube.
Stop you from leaking urine or stool - Helps with urine leakage by closing the urine tube (urethra), 20cm long. Stops stool leaking by helping the anal canal to maintain good closure pressures.
Maintain normal sexual function - Your pelvic floor muscles help to hold the blood in the inflatable sinuses on either side of the penis this helps maintain an erection. Additionally, if the pelvic floor muscles are too tight intimacy can cause pain sometimes within the testes or on the head of the penis and sometimes pain can be felt in the lower abdomen.
Below are a few cues to help you activate your pelvic floor muscles:
Back Passage
Middle section
Front Section
Imagine you are retracting the base of your penis, or
Imagine your penis is like a telescope that can fold back inside itself, or
Imagine your penis is like the head of a turtle pulling back inside the shell
3 sets of 10 repetitions of 10 seconds holds in standing.
Daily or bring them in when you lift.
In this way, you are doing them functionally throughout every day.
If you feel your pelvic floor muscles may not be performing as they should, seek some help from our physiotherapists to regain that control.
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While you don’t talk about pelvic health every day, we do. Our team of specialised physiotherapists are highly skilled and more importantly, have the emotional intelligence to help you through whatever challenges you’re facing. Talk to us today.
ABOUT US
While you don’t talk about pelvic health every day, we do!
Our team of pelvic health therapists are passionate about helping you through whatever challenges you’re facing. Talk to us today.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and live, the Bunurong and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.