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Pelvic floor exercises involve a squeeze and lift of your pelvic floor — it should feel as if you’re about to pass wind in a social situation and you’re tightening the muscles around the back passage to avoid embarrassment, says pelvic health physiotherapist Myra Robson.
The media personality - best known for a string of reality TV show appearances, starting with The Only Way Is Essex - tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but her mind was elsewhere.
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Working out whether you are doing pelvic floor exercises correctly can be a challenge. And if the technique is wrong, the squeezes — designed to improve urinary incontinence — will have little effect. Many women are advised by physiotherapists, or decide themselves, to use biofeedback therapy, which measures how well you are performing these exercises, to improve their effectiveness. Machines bought online, at a chemist, or available in some clinics through the NHS, allow women to ‘see’ whether they are exercising correctly — they involve placing a sensor, linked to a device or a ph...