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Female pelvic floor more complex.
The pelvic floor is a complex group of muscles that exists in both males and females.
A common condition in women cpp is often associated with symptoms suggesting gynecologic bladder bowel or pelvic floor dysfunction and can result in behavioral emotional and sexual concerns.
Pelvic muscle training or kegels is the practice of contracting and relaxing your pelvic floor muscles you may benefit from kegels if you experience urine leakage from sneezing laughing.
Many complex causes of pelvic floor weakness have been described but the greatest risk factors are aging and female sex.
So many women suffer from poor pelvic floor function that can be the cause of a number of conditions including pelvic pain incontinence back pain organ prolapse and even infertility.
If you re a woman you may also feel pain during sex and if you re a man you may have problems having or keeping an erection erectile dysfunction or ed.
Pelvic floor weakness can provoke a wide range of symptoms including pain urinary and fecal incontinence constipation difficulty in voiding a sense of pressure and sexual dysfunction.
Pelvic floor muscles have a multitude of functions one of the most important of which is to help maintain urinary and faecal continence.
Your pelvic floor is the group of muscles and ligaments in your pelvic region the pelvic floor acts like a.
This is also one reason why pelvic organ prolapse is more common in older women than in their younger counterparts.
The muscles attach to the front back and sides of the bone as well as to the lowest part of the.
A hypertonic tight and weak pelvic floor may even impact on how a woman gives birth and of course it s well known that good pelvic floor strength and.
The lack of knowledge of the complex nature of the pelvic floor and its function.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common condition where you re unable to correctly relax and coordinate the muscles in your pelvic floor to urinate or to have a bowel movement.
4 second is the difficulty in learning to isolate this group of muscles 14 third is the myth that many women and healthcare practitioners consider pelvic floor weakness a natural result of aging 2 fourth women are not comfortable discussing pelvic floor dys.