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The #1 Exercise for Pelvic Floor Relief (It’s NOT Kegels)

2 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker advocates teaching diaphragmatic breathing as a primary intervention for patients with pelvic floor tension. The technique links the diaphragm, abdomen, and pelvic floor, emphasizing that during inhalation the diaphragm and pelvic floor descend, and during exhalation they rise. The speaker provides concrete cues: place hands around the ribs, expand laterally rather than chest‑wise, and consciously feel the pelvic floor moving down on the inhale. The instruction highlights common patterns of shallow, stress‑related breathing that keep the pelvic floor contracted. A practical regimen is recommended: two minutes of focused diaphragmatic breathing, performed four to five times daily, to promote relaxation and pelvic floor release.

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pick one thing to do for any patient, it would be to teach them diaphragmatic breathing. And what diaphragmatic breathing is, what we're really doing is we're trying to connect the diaphragm to work with the abdomen and the pelvic floor. So we want to kind of teach that everything comes down and up. So when you inhale, your diaphragm comes down and your pelvic floor comes down. And when you exhale, it all comes up. So when we do diaphragmatic breathing, you want to kind of put your hands around your ribs and and really concentrate on that inhale expanding laterally, not so much from the chest, but lower down. And on the inhale, like really feeling your pelvic floor descend. You want to feel it to come down because like I think we're also used to kind of like breathing fast, saying everything, saying stress, clenched, you know, that pelvic floor just sitting like this all day long that you want. Like I always tell patients, try to do like 2 minutes 4 or 5 times a day of just that nice, like, breathing in, feeling everything relax, and then just exhaling regularly.