Your pelvic floor muscles require as much attention as other muscle groups, like your abs, triceps, and calves.
However, they often get missed during a regular workout routine. It’s hard to target your pelvic floor muscles, and it’s easy to forget about them—until symptoms arise.
When you experience urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, or even bowel movement issues, that’s when you start searching for pelvic floor exercises like Kegels.
While Kegels are effective, they have limitations and risks, especially for those with existing incontinence issues or pain. Instead, we recommend visiting Healthtec for pelvic floor therapy in Abilene. Our Emsella chair provides a safer and more powerful pelvic floor workout than Kegels can.
Read on to learn more about the pelvic floor and why we recommend the Emsella chair over Kegels.
The Importance of Your Pelvic Floor
Your pelvic floor muscles do a lot of work and often receive very little credit. Spanning from your pubic bone to your tailbone, these muscles support your bladder, bowels, uterus (women), and prostate (men), and assist with the following functions:
- Directing blood flow to the penis and vagina during intercourse
- Waste removal
- Posture support
- Give you the ability to decide when to urinate, defecate, or pass gas
Aging and other factors, including surgery, stress, anxiety, and injury, can weaken these muscles, causing sexual dysfunction and bowel and urinary issues. The best way to restore function is to exercise those muscles.
Kegels: Pelvic Floor Exercises
Kegels involve repeatedly tightening and releasing your pelvic floor muscles to strengthen them.
It can be tricky to find your pelvic floor muscles yourself, and even trickier to do these exercises correctly. In some cases, Kegel exercises can cause more harm than good if you squeeze too hard or target the wrong muscles. That’s why we recommend the Emsella chair for safe, effective pelvic floor therapy in Abilene.
The Emsella Chair: Powerful Pelvic Floor Contractions
The Emsella chair doesn’t require you to do anything more than show up and sit down. During this 28-minute session, you sit fully clothed on the Emsella chair as it delivers high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy directly into your pelvic floor.
HIFEM energy induces just over 11,000 Kegel-like contractions in one 28-minute session. Not only can it offer you a much more powerful workout than what you could achieve on your own, but it also targets the right muscle groups, ensuring a safe and effective treatment.
Because Emsella is customizable, we can adjust the settings and intensity to suit your comfort level.
In a series of 6 sessions, your results build on top of one another—just like with any other exercise. As your pelvic floor strengthens, you’ll notice gradual relief from urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and more.
Sit Down and Find Relief
It’s not often that you can build strength while sitting down. With the Emsella chair, we can offer you that and much more. To learn more about this pelvic floor therapy in Abilene, try our treatment planning tool.
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