A conversational interview focused on pelvic floor health across life stages (pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, perimenopause). The speakers discuss education, the importance of teaching pelvic floor awareness early, pelvic floor physical therapy, and the history and misuse of Kegel exercises, highlighting that many women perform Kegels incorrectly and may abandon them due to lack of instruction.
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When they're pregnant, leading up to childbirth, even postpartum. What can moms or future moms or recent moms maybe do? And then also obviously in the perian menopausal phases as well. I'd love for people to get empowered with some steps that they can take. I mean, I'd love to hear the exercise component. So. Yeah, take me through it.
Yeah. It's my hope that at some point in my life that we. We see this being taught in schools. When we're teaching kids about menstrual cycles and sexual health and their bodies. That's a perfect opportunity to plant the seed of this really important group of muscles called the pelvic floor. When you become sexually active, you see a pelvic floor physical therapist once a year. And here is. We can introduce Kegels. Most people have heard the term Kegels or Kegels, and it is I. I want to. I want to honor Dr. Arnold Keegle, who was the one who invented the exercise. He was witnessing his patients postpartum having difficulties, contracting and relaxing their pelvic floor. So he used a biofeedback device that then ended up becoming the Kegel exercise. But the interpretation has been a bit changed. People think of it as just this squeeze. And a lot of people are squeezing their butt or squeezing their inner thighs or even bearing down thinking that they're doing a Kegel. And then when they're. Because they're not doing it correctly. We have evidence to show the majority of women are not because they've never been taught, then they think they don't work, so then they just kind of give up.
