Doing Kegel exercises has many benefits for both men and women. They help to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, helping to gain better control over the bladder and bowels, as well as preventing the pelvic floor muscles from getting weak.
The Freedom+ Chair is a highly effective and non-invasive medical device used to stimulate pelvic floor muscles using functional magnetic stimulation (FMS). Using innovative technology, it is designed to address the root cause of debilitating conditions such as incontinence and pelvic pain.
This technology delivers an equivalent of up to 25,000 supramaximal contractions during a 30-minute treatment. Moreover, using the Freedom+ Chair is a painless and comfortable procedure, and patients can remain fully clothed during the treatment.
What are Kegel Exercises and Why are They Important?
Pelvic floor muscles are a muscle group that make up the bottom of the pelvic region. They play an important role in maintaining continence, as well as providing support for the pelvic organs, stabilizing the pelvis, and sexual activity.
Like any other muscle in the body, pelvic floor muscles can weaken over time. This is why exercising this muscle group can be important to prevent incontinence and reduce pelvic pain.
Kegel exercises, also called “pelvic floor exercises”, are designed to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. Doing these exercises can help to improve urinary and fecal incontinence, as well as the frequent urge to urinate (also called urge incontinence), and pelvic organ prolapse. In addition, regularly doing Kegel exercises helps to improve sexual health and core muscle strength. You can learn more about pelvic floor health and Kegal exercises here.
Challenges of Traditional Kegel Exercises
Without proper guidance from a medical practitioner, doing Kegal exercises on your own can be challenging. Since the pelvic floor muscles are not visible, many people struggle to identify them. Furthermore, some people have significantly weakened pelvic floor muscles due to pregnancy or ageing, making Kegal exercises difficult to perform. In addition, in order to achieve pelvic floor strengthening with Kegal exercises, it is important to do them on a regular basis. However, some people struggle with maintaining consistency, especially when the results take time to see. All in all, the lack of proper technique and consistency when doing traditional Kegal exercises can make them less effective.
Introducing the Freedom+ Chair for Kegel Exercises
The Freedom+ chair uses focused magnetic fields to strengthen and improve the muscle tone of the pelvic floor muscles, helping to treat a variety of medical conditions. This advanced technology stimulates the pelvic floor muscles, prompting them to contract and strengthen without the need for any strenuous effort from the patient. During a single 30-minute treatment session, the Freedom+ chair can deliver up to 25,000 Kegel contractions, while offering the following benefits:
- Pelvic floor strengthening and symptom improvement
- Non-invasive treatment
- Painless procedure
- The patient can remain fully clothed during the treatment
- No recovery time needed
- Suitable for men and women
Who Can Benefit from the Freedom+ Chair for Kegel Exercises?
Certain medical conditions and life events can cause one’s pelvic floor muscles to weaken, resulting in debilitating symptoms such as urinary and bowel incontinence, sexual dysfunction, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain, and lower back pain.
Specifically, some of the following health and medical conditions can result in weakened pelvic muscles:
- Pregnancy and childbirth (including C-sections)
- Obesity
- Abdominal and pelvic surgery
- Ageing
- Constipation
Importantly, treatment using the Freedom+ Chair can be helpful even for people who have not found traditional Kegel exercises to be effective or struggled to do them.
What to Expect During a Freedom+ Chair Session?
During your Freedom+ Chair treatment, you can expect a comfortable, painless, and non-invasive session to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. Patients can stay fully clothed, sitting down on the Freedom+ Chair and comfortably positioning themselves.
Typically, a pelvic floor muscle strengthening session lasts around 30 minutes, and is completely painless. Patients may feel a slight tingling sensation during muscle contractions, and your health practitioner can adjust the intensity settings for your optimal comfort. After your Freedom+ Chair session, you can resume your daily activities, with no recovery time necessary.
Benefits of Kegel Exercises Beyond Pelvic Floor Health
There are many important benefits to strengthening the pelvic floor muscle with Kegel exercises for your overall health and well-being. First and foremost, it helps to treat the debilitating symptoms of urinary and bowel incontinence, including leaking and frequent and strong urges to urinate.
For both men and women, doing Kegel exercises can help to improve sexual health through improved muscle tone. For women who are pregnant or gave birth, doing Kegal exercises can help to reduce the risk of urinary incontinence and promote healing during the post-partum recovery.
Since the pelvic floor muscles are an important part of the body’s core muscle group, strengthening them through Kegal exercises can help to improve your overall core strength. In turn, this can reduce and prevent lower back pain and improve posture. FInally, regularly doing Kegel exercises can help to maintain optimal pelvic health and prevent pelvic floor disorders.
Schedule Your Freedom+ Chair Treatment at Aniyah Care
At Aniyah Care, we offer individual, non-invasive treatment approaches for pelvic floor disorders designed to address your unique needs and symptoms. Our multi-disciplinary team is committed to providing holistic treatment solutions addressing the root causes of your symptoms.
If you suffer from weakened pelvic floor muscles, book your Freedom+ chair session with us today. You can also contact us by filling out our contact form, calling us at (905) 487-4411 (toll-free), or sending an email to info@aniyahcare.com.