Analyzing your breathing pattern and breath awareness is important because the diaphragm, core and
pelvic floor work together.
Now that you have a sense of how to stabilize side - lying exercises with your abdominal muscles, back, and
pelvic floor working together, you might want to move on to more challenging side - lying exercises like the side kick series.
Not exact matches
Normally your nerves, ligaments, and
pelvic floor muscles
work together to support your bladder and keep the urethra closed so urine doesn't leak.
Many people envision the vagina as a tube that simply squeezes and releases, but the
pelvic floor is much more complex and has several layers that all
work together.
What we have come to understand as research has evolved is that all four muscles of the deep core, diaphragm, TA,
pelvic floor and multifidus,
work together as a team to provide the muscular support and regulate the intra-abdominal pressure that contribute to setting up a sturdy center (not just the TA and multifidus).
And the
pelvic floor is parallel in its action to the diaphragm, they
work together, so it is important that clinicians know how to integrate them along with the TA and multifidus into their programming for stability, strengthening, balance, etc..
The
pelvic floor muscles
together with fascial and ligamentous elements
work as a support system for the
pelvic viscera: the bladder, uterus and rectum.
The Foundation Breath is probably the most important exercise you will ever do because it teaches your core muscles (
pelvic floor, transverse abdominis, multifidus, and diaphragm) to
work together to provide support and stability.
Many people believe that C - sections protect the
pelvic floor muscles from having problems, however, we have to remember that the
pelvic floor are one member of a team of muscles (including the deep abdominal muscles, low back muscles and respiratory diaphragm) that
work together to provide support and stability to the pelvis.