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Our bodies are magical! I wish I knew about my pelvic floor BEFORE, but so grateful to understand it and be able to help my clients gain more awareness of their own bodies. The female body is magical!!!

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Take a video of yourself, and see if you can notice the details about how your body functions to complete a task.

Can we notice the little things about how our body moves through daily life to guide our training & treatment strategies?

This post is to highlight a different way of thinking about some of the issues that we are generally told to just "'crunch away" in fitness classes or "Kegel away" in "new mom" blogs.

NOTE: This post IS NOT to say there is ANYTHING wrong aesthetically (or otherwise) with a "lower belly pooch" or ANYTHING with the body in this picture.

This research shows no difference in complicated deliveries between elite athletes and non-athletes.

Grateful that this research is being done, but more questions remain.

Did they have doula support?

Did they have prenatal pelvic floor therapy?

What was their training like during pregnancy?

From what is presented in this article, there is no statistical difference, but is that because those athletes had the right support?

QUESTION FOR YOU:

Do you consider yourself an athlete?

What was your birth experience like?

Do female elite athletes experience more complicated childbirth than non-athletes? A case-control study - PubMed Participation in competitive sports at the elite level was not related to adverse delivery outcome, including length of labour, the need for caesarean section during delivery and severe perineal tears.