Quite often, at the beginning of the rehabilitation period after radical hysterectomy, certain physiological problems may arise, for example, with defecation and urination, because during the operation, along with the uterus, the muscle tissue and ligaments that supported the uterus were removed. In this regard, the organs in the pelvic region are shifting, weakening and the muscles of the pelvic floor lose the ability to maintain the vagina.
Therefore, in order to develop muscles and ligaments of the pelvic floor, certain physical exercises are required after removal of the uterus. Therapeutic gymnastics after removal of the uterus most often comes down to performing the so-called Kegel exercises .
Gymnastics Kegel after removal of the uterus - how to perform exercises?
The complex of exercises can be performed in different positions of the body: sitting, standing, lying.
Before you start training, you need to empty the bladder.
It is necessary to imagine that simultaneously you want to stop the escape from the intestine of gases and the process of urination. The muscles of the pelvis at this time seem to contract and rise slightly upward.
The first time you can not feel the compression of the muscles, but in fact they are compressed. This is quite normal phenomenon, which will pass in the course of time.
To make sure that the muscles really work, you can enter your finger into the vagina. When compressing the muscles, they tightly "grab" the finger.
Performing the exercise, you need to watch to strain only the muscles of the pelvic floor. The abdomen, legs, buttocks should not strain - they are in a relaxed state.
Breathing should be calm, without delay of exhalations and breaths.
It is not easy to keep the abdominal muscles relaxed during exercise. To control the level of their relaxation, you can put below the navel palm and watch that the muscles located under the palm of your hand do not strain.
At the beginning of training, the duration of the muscle tension period should not exceed 2-3 seconds. Then comes the relaxation phase. After this, you need to count to three and then go back to the voltage phase. When the muscles get stronger, the voltage can be maintained for more than 10 seconds. The relaxation phase should also last 10 seconds.
If, after removal of the uterus, the woman suffers from incontinence , then Kegel exercise can be used during coughing or sneezing. This method helps to retain urine.
Exercises need to be performed throughout the day several times. This is a very convenient kind of gymnastics, which you can do both at work and at the TV. During the day, it is best to perform three to four "approaches".