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momof4
March 29, 2007 - 3:07pm
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Good question
Hello...are you currently only dealing with a rectocele? I have been told I have mild rectocele and it has been very difficult finding information related to it as the only prolapse. For example, I have read doing the Kegels doesn't help the rectocele, but that is the only way to strengthen pelvic floor muscles to help the vaginal opening return to normal (which I need too) etc. I have walked, but I am very fearful of anything else too. I hope you/me are able to find more information.
I have that same pressure/buldge come and go and I haven't really been able to find rhyme or reason to when I have it. Sometimes I do alot and think it should be there and its not, then I haven't done much and there it is :(
Hope to get more info too
thanks
UKmummy
March 29, 2007 - 4:03pm
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Hmm, I think this very topic
Hmm, I think this very topic is one which we have all struggled with whatever prolapse we have! I'm not sure that exercise choices are necessarily different for rectocele, other than if they make yours feel better or worse.
The common advice dished out by Drs for us gals with prolapse is do low impact stuff like yoga, and swimming. However, certain yoga poses can be very hard on prolapse as they increase intrabdominal pressure. (Great info' on this in the recent yoga post). I have also heard of women who have had increased bulging with swimming. I read recently a physician advising to do sit ups to strengthen abdominal muscles to allegedly help with strengthening the pelvic floor. This would seem to be extremely unwise advice to me!
Christine's philosophy is that ANY exercise can be done mindfully, maintaining the posture which holds the pelvic organs forward. This would include running as well as long as it feels OK.
Any exercise placing one at an obtuse angle is probably not a good idea as it also places strain on the pelvic organs. This means the classic pilates V- shape exercise, and even recumbant bikes are probably not great. Again, I have recently read of women being advised to use a recumbant bike instead a regular one by a physician!?
It is probably wise to experiment yourself with this. What may be fine for someone else may not be for you. I know it is frustrating that no one can say for sure, I think we all want solid, absolute advice to follow, but like so much with prolapse, it seems to be such an individual thing. I would hope that as we all experiment ourselves, that we will be leading the way for women in the future so that they don't come across so many of the nebulous and frustrating answers we have received from health care providers.
momof4
March 29, 2007 - 7:43pm
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another question
Just another thought with the rectocele...I understand wanting to move all other prolapses forward (uterus, bladder), but it seems the rectocele would want to be moved back so it doesn't buldge through the vaginal wall...yes..no??? Could some of what is good for other prolapses might not be beneficial for rectocele??
UKmummy
March 29, 2007 - 9:08pm
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Forgive me if I don't get
Forgive me if I don't get this exactly right, but I think the premise here is that the uterus, bladder and rectum are positioned in a "777" shape within the pelvis, one sitting above the other with the rectum over the uterus, and the uterus over the bladder.
The sacrum, if the spine is correctly nutated as with the posture, will pin all of these organs forward so that they are held in a more anatomically correct position and don't fall or bulge.
The rectum does actually come quite far forward higher up above the uterus, so it should also resond to the same pinning effect which should reduce the tendency to bulge.
This is explained brilliantly with diagrams in the book, it is hard to explain and understand and took me ages! :) Again, forgive me if I have not got this exactly right.
granolamom
March 30, 2007 - 8:00am
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that's my understanding too
that's my understanding too, ukmummy. and I didn't really 'get' it until I saw the pictures in the second edition of the book.