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Weak pelvic floor symptoms during pregnancy.
The pelvic floor is sometimes compared to a trampoline as it can stretch down under pressure from weight and bounce up again.
It is essential to strengthen your pelvic floor to prevent these symptoms from occurring.
Common causes of a weakened pelvic floor include pregnancy childbirth prostate cancer treatment in males obesity and the associated straining of chronic constipation.
Roseanna grace clinical specialist pelvic floor physiotherapist working within the nhs and private practice and sanature s brand ambassador highlights the signs and symptoms that women should look out for in pelvic floor dysfunction.
Pelvic floor problems can occur when the pelvic floor muscles are stretched weakened or too tight.
However if your pelvic floor muscles are weighed down for a long time as they are during pregnancy they can become weak so they don t bounce back as far handa 2019 kahyaoglu sut and balkanli kaplan 2016.
Pelvic floor exercises are designed to improve your muscle tone.
Symptoms of a weak pelvic floor.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is very different than pelvic organ prolapse.
Unfortunately many women s health conditions are dismissed or normalised and this is something that roseanna wanted to discuss in more detail.
Some people have weak pelvic floor muscles from an early age whilst others notice problems after certain life stages such as pregnancy childbirth or menopause.
Pelvic organ prolapse happens when the muscles holding a woman s pelvic organs uterus rectum and bladder in place loosen and become too stretched out.
Your pelvic floor is the group of muscles and ligaments in your pelvic region the pelvic floor acts like a.
Pelvic floor weakness may cause you to have problems with bowel movements or to urinate when you sneeze.