Educational Photos/Videos
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We sit at least 5 hours a day 5 days a week. That means approximately 1,300 hours a year we are sitting. Poor sitting posture can affect the tone of the pelvic floor muscles.
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Healthy posture improves pelvic floor muscle dysfunction.
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Poor postural habits are usually the cause and can lead to a dropped, rotated or tilted pelvis with changes to the spine from muscle imbalances. In this picture note the lower half of her body dropping left and her under developed muscles on the left side of her back.
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Here we have the same client and after practicing corrective movement and exercise her hips are more level and stable initiating improved optimal movement throughout the spine and pelvis.
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Picture 1: Hyper flexion of the upper spine
Picture 2: Normal flexion
Picture 3: Hyperextension of the spine
Picture 4: Normal extension of the spine
Picture 2: Normal flexion
Picture 3: Hyperextension of the spine
Picture 4: Normal extension of the spine
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Perception is different than reality. She believes that she is upright with good posture. Note hips are forward and upper back is leaning backwards. Her pelvis is tilted under and forward.
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In this picture our client believes she is leaning backwards when in reality she is upright and in good posture.
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This client had vaginal and rectal pain. Learning corrective movement along with healthy fluid intake and healthy food choices her issues are gone.
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Taking the exercise out of movement and focusing on the skeletal system is a different thought process. For pelvic floor muscle synergy we have to focus on teaching the mind with conscious effort what neutral spine feels like in movement.
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As we age we tend to stop paying attention to what we do because we are so concerned about falling. That concern causes us to walk with our head down. When walking with our head down and not picking up our feet we are actually increasing our risk of falling.
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This corrective exercise improves the ability to flex the spine (stretch the lower spine). Women lose flexion of the lower spine with aging decreasing the ability to tilt the pelvis. A high majority of women who suffer some of the complaints of pelvic floor dysfunction lack pelvic mobility.
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In this video notice how much concentration it took for her to move her spine without using her arms as the prime mover. You can see the over response from the use of the arms creates a hyper-extended upper back and lack of flexion in the mid back and lumbar. She has feels unstable. . Notice when she thinks of movement differently her spine articulates (moves) correctly.
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