It will be different for all of us, but developing a confidence in your own ability to take control is the final step in
pelvic floor rehab.
If you continue to have incontinence for more than a month after doing regular Kegel exercises, ask your provider for a referral to a pelvic
floor rehab physical therapist.
The differences in the two rehab regimens would be the emphasis on pelvic floor isolation exercises in a pelvic
floor rehab program and the emphasis on isolating our low back extensors in a low back rehab program.
I also teach activation of the Transversus abdominus as being an important component of
pelvic floor rehab.
As many of you know, pelvic
floor rehab is also my second career; my first career was in communications & writing.
Evidence shows that pelvic
floor rehab can take 7 weeks (of daily work) for our hard work to pay off.
I have a decent working knowledge of the body and have done a ton of research into pelvic
floor rehab and yet I still feel a bit lost in knowing how to safely rehabilitate my body