If you’ve ever experienced a feeling of heaviness in your pelvic area, you know how uncomfortable—and worrying—it can be. While many underlying causes can be easily resolved, others may require more ...

It’s easy to forget about your pelvic floor — until it starts making life miserable. Like a hammock at the base of your pelvis, these unsung muscles keep your core stable and hold vital organs like ...

One-size-fits-all approaches rarely work, especially in the case of the pelvic floor muscles and sometimes this exercise increases tightness. Kegels are a repetitive strengthening exercise that ...

A weak pelvic floor is a common condition; some risk factors are age, pregnancy, chronic constipation and coughing. Working with a pelvic floor physical therapist can help you improve your symptoms ...

Do you leak a little when you cough, sneeze or have a giggle? Some types of exercise can put extra stress on the pelvic floor, which can make these symptoms worse. Well, it turns out that many women ...

When we push or strain the bladder to urinate, the abdominal muscles tense up and the bladder is compressed, explains Dr Sharma, continuing, “Pressure is then created to force the urine out. It ...

Do you go to the bathroom “just in case” before you leave the house? A local doctor says that might not be a good idea for your health. August is Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Awareness Month, which aims ...

The case of a strain injury of the internal oblique abdominal muscle in a professional tennis player is presented. This uncommon lesion resulted from eccentric, unbalanced trunk rotation. Magnetic ...