Why would any woman want to wear a nappy for the rest of her life?

You may wonder why I even ask this question.  I was watching tv recently and there is an advert with some attractive young women laughing about they used to have “LBL” and now they don’t have to worry – they just wear a nappy. 

This isn’t actually what the advert says, it is an ad for panty liners.

More than half the female population – in Australia and US – has a condition referred to as Urinary Incontinence (UI) or Light Bladder Leakage (LBL).  They leak when they laugh, dribble when they cough etc.

Let me repeat - more than half the adult female population!!  This is truly unacceptable.

And even more unacceptable that we are being sold a nappy solution.

Leaking is not normal.  There are many women who never have this issue; women with normal healthy strong pelvic floor muscles.  Leaking is most often as the result of weakened pelvic floor muscles.   And like other muscles in the body can be rehabilitated with a ritual of simple exercises done correctly.

There are lots of things we do as women to help to weaken the pelvic floor muscles.  Knowing what not to do and knowing how to do your pelvic floor exercises correctly can give you a life free of the fear of having “an accident” or as one of my clients says “no longer frightened of peeing my pants”

visit www.womenshealthinitiative.org
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