Category: Prolapse

Core Exercises after Prolapse Surgery and Prolapse Safe Exercises

Unfortunately for many women the potential forpelvic floor injury with intense core exercise is not well recognised within fitness circles. After prolapse surgery, some women even get the go-ahead to return to their regular gym exercises with little understanding of the potential risk of recurrent prolapse with the wrong kind of abdominal core exercise.

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How to Manage a Prolapsed Bladder and Avoid Recurrent Bladder Prolapse

Being diagnosed with a bladder prolapse comes as a shock to many women, even though bladder prolapse (also known as cystocoele) is a common occurrence in women. Bladder prolapse is commonly referred to as “dropped bladder” or “fallen bladder”. Read on to learn the answers to these commonly asked questions about bladder prolapse:

How to Strengthen Your Legs – Safe Strength Exercises for Women

This exercise video teaches you how to do 3 great exercises to help you safely improve your leg strength and protect your pelvic floor. This video is designed and presented with expert physiotherapist guidance. Learn how to safely and effectively perform squat and lunge exercises that are modified for women living with pelvic floor dysfunction such as prolapse, after prolapse surgery or after a hysterectomy.

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Uterine Prolapse Self Management Help for Women

Learning that you have a uterine prolapse can be distressing and quite a shock for some women. Women very often want and need to know how to manage their prolapsed uterus and avoid making it worse. After prolapse repair surgery women are usually very eager to learn how to avoid having a repeat prolapse. Women commonly ask the following questions about managing their uterine prolapse …

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Prolapse Exercises – Pelvic Floor Safe Strength Exercises for Prolapse

Many women are fortunately becoming aware that inappropriate strength training (or resistance training) has the potential to strain and injure their pelvic floor. Performing strength exercises using the wrong technique can increase your risk of incontinence and contribute to or worsen your pelvic organ prolapse (uterine prolapse, bladder prolapse and bowel prolapse).

Prolapse Repair – What Every Woman Needs to Know After Prolapse Surgery

There are a number of key steps you can take to avoid recurrent pelvic organ prolapse, and this includes after vaginal surgery for uterine prolapse, prolapsed bladder (cytocoele) and bowel prolapse (rectocoele). The same protective principles apply to women after rectal prolapse surgery. This 6 minute video outlines the short and long-term practical strategies you can use to reduce your risk of repeat prolapse and further pelvic sugery.

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Prolapse Exercise for Fitness – 5 Pelvic Floor Safe Exercises

Get set to learn some of the most effective fitness exercises for protecting your pelvic prolapse. This information applies to women with; uterine prolapse, prolapsed bladder (cyctocoele), rectal prolapse (rectocoele) and also after prolapse surgery (when you have your specialist’s approval to commence general fitness exercise).

5 Strength Exercises for Women – Safe Prolapse Exercises Video

Learn how to strengthen your legs, back and upper body and exercise safely as you are guided by expert physiotherapist instruction. This professional strength training exercise workout is ideal for women living with pelvic prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction including after a hysterectomy or vaginal surgery. Many women with pelvic floor dysfunction want to return to safe strength exercise but are terrified of causing further injury to their pelvic floor. It is increasingly being recognised that inappropriate strength exercises can make pelvic floor problems such as pelvic prolapse, uterine prolapse and incontinence much worse.

5 Proven Bladder Control Training Tips and Techniques

Practical tips for decreasing bladder urgency for bladder control training. Learn 5 simple strategies and bladder control exercise to help you reduce bladder urgency, retrain your bladder and get to the toilet without bladder leakage

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Successful Pelvic Floor Exercises After Vaginal Surgery

Expert physiotherapist insructional video with step-by-step guidance for improving long-term pelvic floor support and preventing pelvic floor dysfunction after pelvic floor surgery including hysterectomy and prolapse repair. Exercise instruction to help prevent and overcome bladder/bowel and repeat prolapse after a hysterectomy or prolapse repair.