Pelvic floor training is an essential step in preserving pelvic floor health. It supports your day-to-day wellbeing, especially for women after childbirth, but also throughout life. Pelvic floor training exercises help prevent urinary leaks and improve quality of life.
What is pelvic floor training?
Pelvic floor training is a therapeutic approach designed to strengthen, loosen, or help you relearn how to control the pelvic floor muscles. It relies on alternating muscle contractions and relaxations.
What is the pelvic floor for?
The pelvic floor is a true muscular hammock at the base of the pelvis, stretching from the pubic bone to the coccyx.
It supports the pelvic organs such as the bladder and uterus, and helps maintain urinary and bowel continence. It also plays an important role in sexual response.
Why is it essential to take care of it?
Over time, pregnancy, menopause or certain repeated strains can weaken this area. That is why it is so important to give it special attention.
Indeed, a weakened pelvic floor can lead to urinary incontinence, organ prolapse or intimate discomfort, especially after having a baby, at menopause, or during repeated strain.
Training sessions then strengthen these muscles so they can get back to working properly.
Benefits and goals of pelvic floor training
The benefits of pelvic floor training are numerous:
- Prevention and treatment of urinary and anal incontinence.
- Postpartum recovery: strengthening and restoring muscle tone put to the test during pregnancy and childbirth.
- Improving the quality of sexual intercourse through better muscle control and reduced pain.
- Reducing the risk of prolapse (pelvic organ prolapse) and maintaining pelvic stability.
- Greater self-confidence and overall well-being thanks to better body awareness.
What are the methods of pelvic floor training?
There are several methods tailored to everyone’s needs, very often combined for greater effectiveness:
- The manual therapy: a healthcare professional guides the correct contraction of the muscles through a vaginal examination, ideal for better locating and activating the pelvic floor.
- The biofeedback technique: using a device inserted into the vagina, the contractions are visualized in real time on a screen, which helps optimize the effectiveness of the exercises.
- Pelvic floor electrical stimulation: electrical impulses trigger reflex contractions of the pelvic floor. This method is recommended temporarily when muscle control is difficult to regain, because the patient remains passive during the exercises.
- Kegel exercises: simple, effective and easy to do at home, they involve regularly contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles, for ongoing daily training.
There are also complementary approaches such as yoga and Pilates. They also help to tone this muscle group, while working on posture, breathing and deep abdominal muscles.
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When and why should you do pelvic floor training?
Many women no longer feel concerned by pelvic floor training. Yet regular practice is beneficial and recommended at any age, in many situations:
- After giving birth, ideally within the 6 to 8 weeks that follow, to help weakened muscles regain their tone and prevent complications from developing.
- During menopause, because of a drop in hormones that weakens the pelvic floor and increases the risk of continence problems.
- At any age, in cases of urinary leakage, feelings of heaviness, pelvic pain, or as part of preparation for certain sports or medical activities.
As a preventive measure, practising it helps preserve a toned, well-functioning pelvic floor throughout life, thereby supporting the prevention of pelvic disorders and the maintenance of good continence. - To improve sexual pleasure and the quality of orgasms, thanks to muscle strengthening and better body awareness of the pelvic floor.
Whether for women or men, awareness, prevention and support from a healthcare professional are therefore essential to maintain good pelvic health over the long term.
How does the care process work, and how long does it last?
If you need to tone and strengthen your pelvic floor, your GP or gynaecologist, for example, can prescribe a referral for pelvic floor training sessions.
Pelvic floor training generally consists of 6 to 10 30-minute training sessions. What’s more, it’s covered by the French Social Security system, with the option to supplement it with exercises at home to maximise results.
In France, physiotherapists and midwives are qualified to provide this training in a clinic setting.
After an initial assessment of pelvic floor tone, the practitioner adapts the training protocols and tools to each patient.
Once the in-clinic sessions are over, maintaining the benefits of the practice then depends on the patient’s regularity in training independently at home.
Tips for successful pelvic floor training
- Consistency ⌚ : doing the recommended exercises as part of your daily routine helps extend the benefits of the sessions.
- Follow the progression 📈 : it’s essential not to rush and to follow the instructions carefully to avoid making symptoms worse.
- See a professional 👩⚕️: physiotherapists and midwives are also there to help you adapt the method to your personal situation.
- Integrate exercises into everyday life 🛋️ : apply the reflexes you’ve learned during exertion, when lifting heavy objects, or during physical activity.
Pelvic floor recovery is accessible, effective, and widely covered. It therefore adapts to every situation and helps you regain comfort and peace of mind in your intimate and social life. An essential step to help you feel good in your body, whatever the circumstances!
