ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2024
Squatting-based exercises cure bedwetting in children and improve pain and bladder symptoms in premenopausal women.
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Abstract
This paper explores a practical approach to pelvic floor health called the Skilling technique. Unlike the commonly recommended "squeezing upwards" method which teaches a woman to voluntarily squeeze upwards (a learnt technique), the Skilling method is entirely reflex: the squatting-based exercises on which it is based, strengthen the three reflex pelvic muscle forces which pull against the suspensory ligaments pubourethral ligament (PUL) and uterosacral ligament (USL) to: close the urethra during effort (control of stress incontinence), open the urethra during micturition, and stretch the vagina in opposite directions to control inappropriate activation of the micturition reflex [overactive bladder (OAB)]. The strengthened ligaments better support the pelvic visceral plexuses (VPs), which unsupported, can fire off
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