Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Despite being so important, the pelvic floor remains a mystery to modern medicine – comparable to the brain – both because of its complexity and some good old-fashioned sexism - Cecilia Marotta

Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

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The Body Part You’re Probably (But Definitely Shouldn’t Be) Overlooking

When local pelvic-floor yoga therapist Debbie Brownstein first became aware of her own pelvic floor, she was 30 years old.

One year after having her first child, she was grooving to the live sounds of the Disco Biscuits with friends. One of them had brought a mini trampoline to the concert (*makes mental note to go to a concert with Brownstein and her friends*), but when it was Brownstein’s turn to jump, something unexpected happened. “Three jumps in, I peed myself. I was shocked — this had never happened to me before,” she says...

“I was so frustrated,” Brownstein says. “I kept wondering why nobody up to this point of my life had told me what a pelvic floor is or what…

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 The Body Part You’re Probably (But Definitely Shouldn’t Be) Overlooking

Your pelvic floor plays a key role in so many activities: exercising, having sex, delivering a baby, breathing. Why are so few people talking about it?

Five ways to strengthen your pelvic floor

Using apps and exercises, women and men can benefit from keeping their pelvic floor muscles healthy.

Voices for PFD

VoicesforPFD.org is a website and online community developed by AUGS to educate patients and caregivers about pelvic floor disorders, and to create a unique space for women to connect with other patients.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

A PFD occurs when the muscles or connective tissues of the pelvic area weaken or are injured. The most common PFDs are urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and pelvic organ prolapse. PFDs are more common among older women.

StatPearls

The clinical aspects of PFD can be urologic, gynecologic, or colorectal and are often interrelated. Another way to compartmentalize the concerns are anterior- urethra/bladder, middle- vagina/uterus and posterior- anus/rectum.

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