When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
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aza
January 4, 2011 - 12:48am
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Hi ri
I am assuming you are new here? If so, welcome. I think that if you stick around and get a solid base of knowledge about prolapse, you will soon be able to answer this question for yourself. But for now, my response would be that sure, chiro, osteo, massage, etc can all be incredibly beneficial but generally will only enhance an already improving prolapse rather than 'fix it'. Prolapse is largely a structural problem in the body and the groundwork for helping it to improve lies in diet, lifestyle and posture that you live in, day in and day out (and the benefits of this posture are so enormous that soon you will begin to wonder how you ever lived in your body in any other way). Osteopathy and other modalities can certainly enhance this, though you might have to work very hard to find practitioners who do not believe the age old misconception of 'proper posture' that has (among other things) gotten us into this epidemic of prolapse.
But first things first. Have you shared your story here? Have you gotten Christine's book or DVD to get you started? Letting us know where you are at may help as there are many women with incredible insight and information who are more than happy to share.
louiseds
January 4, 2011 - 1:46am
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bodywork
Totally agree with Aza. I think any sort of bodywork that frees up tight stuff and puts things back where they belong, and generally makes us more flexible, will enhance our ability to use our bodies as they were designed to work, ie Wholewoman posture.
The corollary of this is that if we don't have our full range of movement, we cannot use Wholewoman posture. This means that we cannot get the top of the vagina, the rectum, the bladder and the uterus into the right spatial relationship with each other, ie vagina sloping backwards with the top turning at right angles forwards, the bladder resting against the lower abdominal wall, the uterus sitting on top of it, also against the lower abdominal wall, the rectum stretched out so it is not squashed under the sacrum.
If the vagina points straight up, the bladder and uterus are falling back over the vagina and the rectum is stuck in the space between the vagina and the tailbone, they all just squash downwards under gravity and try get out through the vagina.
The way we carry our bodies, and how we use them to do tasks, (ie under load), when the structures that keep our pelvic organs inside us have been damaged, will determine how much our POPs bother us. Winding up the pelvic region by getting into WW posture, and by doing exercises like nauli, getting these organs to roll forwards, stretches out the fascia and winds it up, around the top of the vagina.
You can see a hole in pantihose when you wear it, stretched out around your legs, but if you take it off and stretch it out lengthwise, the holes miraculously disappear, ie they turn into long, thin, stretched-out slits that are not easily penetrated. This is kind of what happens when you wind up your pelvic structures in Wholewoman posture. The better you can stretch your body out, and open it up, the better it will work.
So the answer is yes, osteo etc can be very helpful, but it is you who has to do the work to open your body out.
christinabf
January 4, 2011 - 9:39am
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osteopath in montreal
My sister has regular treatments with an osteopath for her uterine prolapse, and she lives about 15 minutes from Montreal. Email me if you want more info, and I will get it from her.