1. You need them when you're pregnant.
The weight of your baby is placing more and more pressure on your bladder, bowel and pelvic floor. Pregnancy is a race against time to improve pelvic floor muscle strength at the same speed you baby is growing. If you can keep pace, it will protect you from symptoms such as urinary leakage, perineal heaviness or vaginal prolapse.
When girls in developing countries start menstruating, many simply don't attend school for the week as they have no sanitary way to contain their menstrual fluid. After a while, they start to fall behind in there schoolwork due to their absences and an alarming number drop out of school all together. With limited education these girls have no option but to take menial, low paying jobs and are destined for life long poverty.
Keen to learn more about Over Active Pelvic Floor and how this may affect your body? Our Osteopath Sonya has created an info-graphic that outlines some of the conditions associated with an over active pelvic floor.
