Q&A with Wendy, our women’s health physio
Q. Post-pregnancy I leak when coughing or when trying to run despite having worked on my pelvic floor – why is that?
A. In the case that your pelvic floor muscle is weak and requires strengthening, there is a level of skill required to train it properly. It is a fan shaped muscle and for it to work optimally, we need to contract it according to the direction in which the muscle fibres lie.
Written by Wendy Casterton, Physiotherapist