In this guest blog Gabriella Howson, Managing Director of Tonicity Ltd, talks about the importance of exercising your hidden muscles.

As women and mums our children come first. We make time for ourselves, our own health and a little TLC when we can. One thing that medical professionals tell us after we have our babies is to look after our core body and pelvic floor muscles. However that piece of advice is normally one we forget pretty quickly, concentrating more on the parts of us that we can see.

It’s easy to worry about how flat our tummies are, what size clothes we fit into and what we look like - all of that matters and makes a difference – but the muscles that we can’t see are hugely important too and the effects of weak muscles are horrendous. The pelvic floor and core body muscles are among the most important in our body. They control a wide variety of functions including our posture, how we move, how much we enjoy sex and also providing bladder control. Two in three women in the UK have weak pelvic floor muscles, while one in three of us has such weak muscles that we have embarrassing leaks or lower back pain which at the most extreme can lead to a prolapse.

There are exercises you can do to keep yourself in good shape, devices which are designed to help, drugs which can reduce some of the symptoms but generally have side effects or you can have surgery to correct the more extreme conditions. However there are also new alternative treatments which tones these vital muscles and, for the first time, give you feedback on how well you’re doing.

Jeanette Haslam, internationally recognised specialist in women’s physiotherapy, says, “Most pelvic floor conditions are avoidable or even curable but women do not know about options. Pelvic floor training techniques are something that all women need to know about.”

These treatments are available from Tonicity, the first specialised women’s health and beauty centre in the UK. All our treatments are designed to show and improve the condition of your pelvic floor or core body muscles. Tonicity is run by women including a number of highly trained women’s health professionals. All ourr staff are from a nursing or specialist physiotherapy background and have many years experience in helping women get back on their feet and feeling great again.

For more details of the treatments on offer please visit www.tonicity.eu, Tel: 0845 269 2603 or Email: info@tonicitygroup.com

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