Pelvic floor physiotherapist, Kate Roddy, joins Jess to answer questions and share advice for keeping your pelvic floor as healthy as possible. They discuss:

How to destress your vagina

How to protect your pelvic floor while lifting weights and working out

The forms of incontinence and how to manage them

Why you don’t have to settle for peeing when you laugh

How to do a proper kegel

How to differentiate between pain and discomfort

The Power of the Kegel Release Curve

How to find the back end of the clitoris

Safe vaginal & perineal massage (especially postpartum)

Symptoms of an unhealthy pelvic floor

The 4th trimester

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Pelvic Floor Health: Perineal Massage, Postpartum, Peeing & De-Stressing Your Vagina

00:00:05 - 00:05:01

You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight. Hey just Morelli here and I am with Kate. Roddy of sports and Pelvic physiotherapist. You have just released a new pelvic wand called the Kegalle release curve. Wiz that mean Kegalle release so I think Kiko releases. We are trying to release. Our Kiko muscles are muscles. There's just the pelvic floor Pelvic floor consists of a whole bunch of muscles and for probably eighty years. Now we just keep getting told to our key goals and we know so much more about those muscles and knowing that we need to release them where probably overly stressed down. There are vaginas are stressed just like any other part of our body because its muscles so most people should perhaps not be doing eagles. Most people need to check in with what their vagina needs. And even within a certain week they may need different things. So if you are very stressed your vaginas probably stressed as well because those muscles respond to stress whether it's mental or physical and they're going to protect and guard just like any other body parts so we will always guard our most intimate or stronger than anywhere else. So if you're stressed good chance you're China's stressed and we want to release those muscles like anything so you're probably tensing up and almost doing permanent. Kegalle as out of fair way to put it for lay people like me absolutely absolutely so tension is a contraction right. It's it's the muscle contracting on itself and if it doesn't let go then it's just holding on all the time and then you don't really have a lot more capacity for those muscles to work when you need them so for example if I am really tense and so I'm in a state of contraction almost like I'm doing Akigal though not consciously when I laugh will I P because my muscles too tired it absolutely. If women are having experiences with these accidental leaks so sneeze laugh. They go to lift something heavy. Even the jump or running those are all forms of incontinence and we call that stress incontinence right. So there's an external factor that acts on our body that makes us have a little bit more pressure in our intra abdominal cavity. Which just means our our stomach area and that pushes down on our pelvic floor. If we're to tents from sort of everything else going on in our lives the pelvic floor has ...