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Christine
August 3, 2006 - 5:17pm
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Hi Ms. Cutie,
Very glad to have been able to help…yours was the first Whole Woman Crises Hotline call. :-) A lesson for the rest of you: Large fibroids + uterine prolapse + full bowel + full bladder = urinary obstruction. I had Ms. Cutie squat slightly off the pot, lean forward, and pull up as much flesh as she could grab right above her pubic bone. She called back a few minutes later much relieved.
I think traditional dance would be great for you. As far as exercise goes…I just answered that as best I could in the bodywork forum…see Marie’s post about abdominal exercises. I’ve created a workout program built upon the concept of natural female posture, but it’s just not something I can write out here. Before too much longer I’ll have a video of my most current work.
Here’s the core of what you need to understand: our natural posture is protective of our pelvic organ support system. However, because of civilized life we no longer sit, stand, and move in the ways our greatest grandmothers did, nor are we remotely as physically active.
The major pathology associated with loss of our natural design is spinal flexion. This is where the tailbone is tucked under, the lumbar curve flattened, and the stomach worn up under the breasts. In turn the pelvic organs, which normally reside right behind the curve of the lower belly, are drawn down and back to fall against the vaginal walls.
I’ve spent the last two days in the medical center library and was rewarded by finding a gem of an article from 2002 that confirms what I’ve been saying about the female pelvic organ support system.
The pelvic organs are allowed to keep their positions close to the lower belly when we stand because of a lifted tailbone, a pronounced lumbar curve, and a narrowed pelvic diaphragm in bipedal posture. The kite-shaped pelvic “floor”, or diaphragm, is pulled together across the middle by traction of the ischial spines to which the pelvic floor muscles are attached. When we stand with our spine in the right shape, the pelvic floor is pulled higher from pubic bone to sacrum, but also narrowed across the middle. This is a major factor in keeping the organs positioned toward the front of the body.
So…a large study was carried out in 2001 by the departments of anthropology, obgyn, and biomechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. First of all, a little background information: it has long been observed by pelvic surgeons that prolapse is largely a white woman’s disease. All races are affected to some degree, but white women by far the most and studies bear this out.
For this study, dozens of female pelvises – half European American and half African American (I know that’s not a very clear distinction in America, but they did the best they could) – were precisely measured and guess what??? The African American pelvic “floors” were significantly narrower across the middle.
These pelvises were part of a large collection from a natural history museum. The study states the age of the bones when they died, but says nothing about when in history the people lived. I think that is one of the most relevant factors.
Now, it may be that European American women’s pelvic floors are larger because of strictly genetic reasons, but I have my doubts about that. I think it’s a much safer bet that the African American women were closer to their natural posture than the others, especially if they lived in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. Nowdays we are all losing our natural ways of sitting, standing, and moving.
So, Ms. Cutie…the best I can tell you is to think deeply about what you can do in your own environment to help bring your body back to its natural shape. I’ve already described the posture to you and now only you can implement it. Think about the ways in which your greatest grandmothers sat, stood, walked and danced and those clues will help you know what to do.
We owe it to the women who stood up, who continued to bear large-headed offspring, yet developed the genetics to keep everything perfectly balanced and in place while running alongside their men, to make sure such a grand design is inherited by our greatest granddaughters.
:-) Christine