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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Christine
February 8, 2011 - 1:23pm
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kegels and prolapse
Welcome, Vbacmom2,
The WW issue with kegels is simply that they should not be a focal point. Women have found that the traditional PT instructions of lying on their back and doing sets of pelvic floor contractions and navel-to-spine exercises actually worsen symptoms. This is pretty common knowledge now.
As long as you understand that the point of restoring pelvic organ support is to move the organs - bladder, uterus and sigmoid colon - into the rounded lower belly - then kegel all you want in standing and seated positions. It's important to maintain a closed pelvic wall, which includes muscles that close the sphincters properly while stretched into their functional dimensions. The muscles tighten all the time when moving through the day in WW posture. It is natural, functional movement, unlike lying in bed and doing several sets of kegels.
:) Christine
Vbacmom2
February 21, 2011 - 6:13am
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Hi Christine what do you mean closed pelvic wall?
Sorry to be a bit of a slow one on this but I am unsure what you mean by closed pelvic wall? Do you mean for example WW standing posture?
louiseds
February 21, 2011 - 7:59am
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Explanation
The explanation for this is on pp82 and 83 of Saving the Whole Woman. It really is a miraculous design. The pelvic floor is not really a floor at all. It is a diagonal, stabilising back wall. The pelvic bones, specifically the part where the two pubic bones join together under your pubic hair, are the pelvic floor. Yes, your pelvic organs are really underpinned by bone, unless you tip the whole pelvis back by tucking your tummy and your butt. Only then will they slip backwards and try and go down the plughole!
Yes, Wholewoman posture in any position does this, whether standing, sitting, squatting. semi-squatting, kneeling or whatever.
Louise