We all know the dreadful feeling of needing the bathroom suddenly to empty the bladder while having coffee with friends or while out shopping and how humiliating and embarrassing it is to be caught short and leak urine.
Imagine the awful feeling with an overwhelming urge to empty your bladder or needing to cough or sneeze and not making it to the bathroom in time and leaking urine - worse still is the fear of not being able to control stool or gas.
New mothers (and some not so new mothers! ) up and down the country are dealing with these awful problems. Help is available to give yourself back your freedom without fear of bladder leaks.
Progressive pelvic floor muscle training is recommended as a first line treatment for incontinence (CG171 NICE Guideline 2016 ). Two thirds of women with any type of incontinence who have pelvic floor muscle training see improvements or cure with 75 percent of women reporting resolution of symptoms such as episodes of incontinence (National Institute of Research doi:10.33310/signal-000702 ) - that is two out of three women will be cured of incontinence with pelvic floor muscle training!
Pregnancy, childbirth and menopause are the leading causes of incontinence for women with many women hiding the problem and are too embarrassed to deal with the issues. Women wear incontinence pads, reduce their sexual activity, their exercise levels and their social life too. As a woman trains her pelvic floor muscles, she will find that her core (or tummy ) muscles also improve!
It is important to know where the pelvic floor muscles are in the body. Firstly, think of the area of your body between your waist and the top of your legs. This is where your Pelvis is located, think of it as a basin shaped region. Your tummy area is where your core muscles are located. The pelvic floor muscles form the base of the pelvic basin and are really the underneath part of your core.
Home Pelvic Routine for Women, a series of exercises and training routines, is a type of digital therapeutics, using an e-learning platform which takes what once was done one on one, in a room, to the masses, using technology, discretely, at an affordable price.
It is an affordable online pelvic floor training product allowing for discrete training in private at home, using a smart phone, tablet, or laptop. The online product consists of three videos and three e-booklets and includes a program and problem tracker.
It is designed by an expert - experienced, multi-award winning pelvic floor physiotherapist, women’s health specialist, Aoife Ni Eochaidh. Home Routine is based on Aoife’s 25 years of experience treating thousands of women with incontinence, it is evidence based, it uses tried and tested methods of training, in the right order and at the right pace of training to optimal results.
There is also Home Pelvic Routine for Men, to include pelvic floor issues, pre and post prostate cancer surgery, bladder and bowel incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
Pelvic Floor Muscle Training with the Home Pelvic Routine is not a quick fix, it takes time, but it works, and it is so worth it! Home Pelvic Routine for Women costs €70 and is available to purchase on our digital therapeutic platform, courses.homepelvicroutines.com
Alternatively, see Aoife’s website for further information, www.ippm.ie and select the Home Pelvic Routine hyperlink for the online course.
One to one, in person appointments, and online one on one appointments are also available - please visit www.ippm.ie
Follow Aoife Ni Eochaidh on social media via @pelvicexper.
