Inside Out – the essential women's guide to pelvic support
by Michelle Kenway Physiotherapist with Dr Judith Goh Urogynaecologist
Women who will benefit from Inside Out:
Women who require health professional guidance for pelvic floor safe exercise with:
- Previous vaginal surgery (hysterectomy, bladder prolapse repair, uterine prolapse repair and rectal prolapse surgery)
- Vaginal prolapse (pelvic prolapse)
- During and after menopause
- Bladder and/or bowel control problems
- Weak pelvic floor muscles
- Pelvic floor dysfunction.
Inside Out features:
- Simple step-by-step exercise guidelines for successful pelvic floor strengthening
- How to safely improve abdominal core strength and tone
- How to identify abdominal exercises to avoid
- How to identify safe and unsafe exercises; in the gym and in popular exercise classes including Pilates,Yoga, Circuit training, Pump and Step classes
- A complete illustrated whole body pelvic floor safe strength training program
- Weight loss and exercise guidelines for pelvic floor safe exercise
- Real life pelvic floor recovery stories
All the expert tips you need to feel confident with your exercise program.
Pelvic floor safe exercises for women
Research shows that some popular gym and fitness exercises cause downward movement of a woman’s pelvic floor. This can cause the pelvic floor muscles to stretch, weaken and lose their ability to support a woman's pelvic organs and keep her continent.
Popular exercises and equipment including sit-ups, leg press, some Pilates and even Yoga exercises can potentially cause pelvic floor dysfunction. Women after gynaecological surgery are already at risk and sometimes the wrong exercises can have devastating consequences upon their pelvic floor.
Inside Out gives you the expert knowledge and skills to perform exercise that is effective for improving your strength and fitness and will also protect and support your pelvic floor. This is essential reading for all women who wish to exercise and stay active, and at the same time avoid pelvic floor injury and dysfunction.
About the authors
Michelle Kenway Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist
Michelle Kenway is a renowned Australian physiotherapist. She is a highly qualified and experienced private practitioner, women's exercise instructor, author and medical presenter.
Professor Judith Goh Urogynaecologist
Dr Judith Goh is a urogynecologist based at Greenslopes Private Hospital; and Professor, School of Medicine Griffith University, Queensland. Dr Goh specializes in pelvic floor prolapse and incontinence surgery.
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Inside Out review
This book is an eye opening read for women. Although it is targeted at the mature female reader, there is a great deal of information that would benefit the younger woman. I was amazed at the information I read in this book. Things I had NO idea about now make perfect sense. … This book is The Bible for your Pelvic Floor and I applaud the fact that someone has taken the time and effort to get this needed information out there. Thank you! For me it's been the most worthwhile investment I've made.
–Med Library. MD Review 2011
Inside Out testimonials
I have received your book and I think the tips you offer are amazing. There is so little info out there about exercising and protecting your pelvic wall. I am currently dealing with a prolapsed bladder…Thank you once again for taking the time to write this book for those of us out there who love to exercise and who have to deal with some sort of pelvic dysfunction…You have given me a big part of my life back Mandy
Just a quick note to let you know that the book is fantastic. I have certainly learnt a lot about working out the correct way!!
I have shared the book with friends and it has become our workout bible. I still have to remember to do the pelvic floor exercise though. It’s so easy to forget.
Thank you for your book Michelle. Inside Out has changed my life! I found it just after I had spent the previous 9 months doing all the wrong exercises and making my 20 year prolapse worse than ever before, and without realizing that I was doing this to myself with the wrong exercises. Do you have an exercise video to accompany this book? Bernie
I think your book is so important that a copy should be in every gym attended by women. It was by doing the “wrong” exercises prescribed at a gym that I first developed symptoms. Not one gym I have attended, despite assurances to the contrary, has been aware of the exercises to be avoided by women with pelvic floor problems. In this respect there seems to be a significant gap in the training of gym staff. Thank you again.
Hello, I love your book “Inside Out” it was EXACTLY what I was after since my vaginal prolapse repair earlier this year. Thanks so much for the book and your time,
regards Joanne
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