A person with pelvic floor dysfunction will have difficulty controling the muscles of their pelvic floor. This can lead to difficulty when having a bowel movement, urinary problems, lower back pain, and other issues.
If your pelvic floor muscles are not functioning well, the internal organs will lack full support. This may stop you from being able to control your urine, faeces or wind.
The most common types of pelvic floor disorders include:
- Pelvic Pain
- Pelvic Urinary Incontinence
- Pelvic Fecal Incontinence
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Common causes of a weakened pelvic floor include pregnancy, childbirth, prostate cancer treatment in males, obesity and the associated straining of chronic constipation. Pelvic floor exercises are designed to improve your muscle tone. In addition they improve your brain connection to these muscles.
Symptoms of pelvic floor muscle dysfunction
The symptoms of a pelvic floor dysfunction include:
- leaking urine when coughing, sneezing, laughing or running
- failing to reach the toilet in time
- passing wind from either the anus or vagina when bending over or lifting
- reduced sensation in the vagina
- tampons that dislodge or fall out
- a distinct bulge at the vaginal opening
- a sensation of heaviness in the vagina
- a heaviness or dragging in the pelvis or back
- recurrent urinary tract infections, or recurrent thrush
- vulval pain, pain with sex, inability to orgasm.
Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction causes
Pelvic floor dysfunction can occur for a wide variety of reasons. Pregnancy, childbirth, and aging are some of the factors that can impact your pelvic floor. But ultimately, the outcome is the same. The pelvic floor muscles are stretched, weakened, or too tight and women wind up suffering from one or more pelvic floor disorders. There are a number of risk factors that affect the pelvic floor including vaginal deliveries, weight, diabetes, and aging. All these may contribute to abnormalities of the pelvic floor and the development of incontinence and prolapse.
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The Connection Between Root Chakra Healing and the pelvic floor
Our Root/root chakra is located near our perineum, it encompasses many of the parts of a woman’s body we feel disconnected from, especially the vagina. Root chakra healing and pelvic floor health are deeply linked.
Women who have root health or root chakra issues, often suffer from energy issues, hormonal problems, sleep disorders, incontinence, pain, lack of pleasure, and mental fog that connect to their pelvis.
The root chakra influences our feelings of safety and security. When we are facing something stressful or experiencing a lot of fear, we tend to brace ourselves for what might happen. Our pelvis tightens to match the emotional energy we’re experiencing. When we are disconnected from our pelvic region, the root chakra becomes unbalanced or blocked.
When you balance the root chakra and you are deeply connected to your feminine anatomy, a free-flowing ease takes over. Hormones are balanced and some of the effects of menopause, perimenopause, or difficult cycles are alleviated. Your quintessential feminine power, which is voracious, plays in that ease and flow space.