Pregnancy and postpartum care
What happens to the body during pregnancy? Why do some women experience pelvic girdle pain, low back pain and urinary incontinence during pregnancy? What can women do to prevent it?
What happens to the body during pregnancy? Why do some women experience pelvic girdle pain, low back pain and urinary incontinence during pregnancy? What can women do to prevent it?
Image source: Tightly Wound an animated film about Vaginismus by Shelby Hadden & Sebastian Bisbal Key points Vaginismus is a condition characterised by the involuntary tightening of the pelvic floor muscles, the muscles around the opening of the vagina. Women struggling with vaginismus find any sexual activity that involves vaginal penetration painful…
Grace came to see me because she had been struggling with low back pain for a while, which had been recently aggravated and was preventing her from doing yoga.
It seems that nowadays everyone is talking about the pelvic floor muscles and how important they are. But do you actually know what the pelvic floor is and why it is so important? Put simply, the pelvic floor is the group of muscles that join the front of the pubic bone to the coccyx (tailbone) at the base of the spine.