3 Common Myths About Pelvic Floor Health

Pelvic floor health is often surrounded by outdated advice and misconceptions that do more harm than good. For active women, these myths can keep you from doing the things you love—whether it’s running, lifting, or simply feeling confident in your body.

Myth 1: Leaking Is Normal After Kids—Just Live with It

• Truth: While EXTREMELY common, bladder leakage isn’t ‘normal,’ and it can be treated VERY effectively with conservative strategies (exercise, lifestyle modification and worn garments/devices)

• Leaking impacts your quality of life. Many of my clients report changing what they do and how they do it due to bladder leakage or prolapse. Over time, pelvic floor issues become your “ceiling”, and it doesn’t have to be this way.

Myth 2: High-Impact Exercise Is Off-Limits if You Have Prolapse

• Truth: With the right modifications, you can safely return to high-impact activities.

• High impact exercise is crucial to bone health, muscle strength and longevity. It’s not a nice to have, its a necessity for ageing women.

Myth 3: It’s Pelvic Floor Exercises or Surgery - And I’ve Tried Pelvic Floor Exercise, it didn’t work.

• Truth: Pelvic floor exercises are just one tool in our “conservative management” toolbelt.

• Pelvic floor exercises need to be done regularly, and progressively get harder across 12 weeks to be effective. Done correctly pelvic floor exercises have the potential to cure or improve more than 70% of women who leak with movement. But many women don’t actually do them correctly, or aren’t following a program that targets muscle function and hypertrophy.

• Pelvic floor exercises can be combined with diet and lifestyle changes, global strengthening, pesarry’s, compression garments, TENS machines, medications and more to be effective. This is all before considering surgical options.

The truth? Your body is capable of so much more than you might think. By understanding the facts, you can take the steps to feel stronger, more confident, and empowered to live life without limits.

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