mayan abdominal massage

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Hi Ladies,

Has anyone heard of or tried Mayan abdominal massage for prolapse? I came across it while researching natural prolapse treatments and acupuncture. It sounded interesting, but I'm not sure. Thanks for any info or advice!!!

Marla

I'm curious as well and have been seeing a lot about this but nothing about whether it works.

Use the search box to look for discussions. Basically, if you enjoy it, it can't hurt, but it doesn't affect prolapse. - Surviving

I know it won't help prolapse directly, but it seems to be similar in some ways to the abdominal massage I advocate for constipation and incomplete emptying. If it can help your intestines to keep food moving along the gut, it cannot fail to provide a less crowded, and more mobile abdominopelvic cavity and contents, which has to be supportive of optimal pelvic organ positioning, and particularly rectocele.

But it won't help prolapse at all if your posture is not Whole Woman style, which orients the skeleton, muscles and fascia in a way that provides the best-shaped container with gravity acting in the direction in which it is designed to act, to reinforce healthy pelvic organ positioning.

Summary, in my unofficial and rather unhumble opinion: It won't hurt, and may provide important secondary benefits for prolapse in the presence of other Whole Woman practices.

Louise