UNDERSTANDING YOUR PELVIC FLOOR, A.K.A. YOUR KEGEL MUSCLES

Much of my work with clients focuses on pelvic floor health. The pelvic floor comprises your "kegel muscles." They play a critical role in continence, supporting your internal organs, and providing major core stability (believe it or not, these muscles are crucial even for “simple” tasks like jogging and running). It's important to know how to engage and relax your pelvic floor – i.e. How to “pick up your blueberry.”

This article offers a good crash course on the pelvic floor. It's importance, function, and how childbirth can affect it. One of the points worth highlighting is that it doesn't matter if you had a caesarian birth; your pelvic floor may still need some “rehab.” This is because pelvic floor dysfunction most often occurs from carrying birthweight – not how you delivered your baby.