#pelvic support

[wynnyfryd]

psa if you have bendy bitch disease a pair of spanx will change your life

[spoonie-on-wheels86]

[dissociacrip]

love seeing a "list of things i wish someone told me about before turning 25" and the majority of it is a bunch of stuff i've already experienced since i was a kid lol.

[wanderestless]

a bonus feature of living through things is that you get phantom pain in other ways that are related but make no sense

[jediexile]

I’m such an iDiOt I got a salad a couple days ago (along with borger and fry) from a local restaurant as a treat, and also so I would actually eat something, and tonight I had the salad which I assumed would be fine, bc salad right? Except the dressing has garlic in it and now I feel like I’m both throwing up and shitting out my intestines

[lun3a]

The Importance of Pelvic Floor Health for Women of All Ages: Specifications Breakdown, FAQs, and More

Pelvic floor health is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of women’s overall wellness. From young adults to postmenopausal women, maintaining strong pelvic floor muscles can significantly impact quality of life, physical comfort, and long-term health.

Understanding the FemiPro: A Comprehensive Overview

Product Specifications

Technical Capabilities Intensity Levels: 5–10 adjustable intensity settings Programmed Modes: Multiple pre-set exercise programs Connectivity: Bluetooth-enabled smartphone app integration Tracking Features: Muscle strength progression monitoring Material Safety: Hypoallergenic, latex-free

Key Features Precise electronic muscle stimulation Personalized workout programs Real-time biofeedback Discreet and ergonomic design Comprehensive mobile app support

Why Pelvic Floor Health Matters

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. Who can benefit from using the FemiPro? Women of all ages can benefit, including those experiencing pregnancy-related changes, postpartum recovery, menopausal symptoms, or seeking to improve pelvic muscle strength and overall reproductive health.

2. Is the FemiPro painful to use? The device is designed for comfort and is adjustable to individual tolerance levels. Users can control intensity settings to ensure a comfortable experience.

3. How often should I use the FemiPro? Recommended usage is 10-15 minutes daily, 3-5 times per week. The accompanying app provides personalized guidance on optimal usage.

4. Can the FemiPro help with urinary incontinence? Yes, regular use can help strengthen pelvic floor muscles, potentially reducing symptoms of stress and urge incontinence.

5. Is the device safe to use? The FemiPro is made from medical-grade silicone, FDA-registered, and designed with safety as a primary concern. However, consulting with a healthcare professional is always recommended.

6. How long before I see results? Most users report noticeable improvements in muscle strength and control within 4–6 weeks of consistent use, though individual results may vary.

7. Is the FemiPro difficult to clean? No, the waterproof design allows for easy cleaning with mild soap and water. The device includes specific cleaning instructions in its user manual.

8. Can I use the FemiPro if I’m pregnant? Pregnant women should consult their healthcare provider before using any pelvic floor training device. Some modifications might be necessary depending on individual health conditions.

9. Does the device come with a warranty? Most FemiPro models include a 1-2 year manufacturer’s warranty covering potential defects in materials and workmanship.

10. How does the mobile app enhance the training experience? The companion app offers personalized workout plans, tracks progress, provides real-time feedback, and allows users to customize their pelvic floor training regimen.

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Additional Health Considerations

While the FemiPro is an excellent tool for pelvic floor health, it should be considered part of a holistic approach to wellness. Complementary practices include: Regular exercise Proper nutrition Stress management Regular medical check-ups

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Conclusion Investing in pelvic floor health is an investment in overall well-being. The FemiPro offers a technological, user-friendly approach to maintaining and improving these crucial muscles.

*Disclaimer: This information is educational and not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance.*

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[techmomma]

Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:

you will get hair in fun new places. this is normal and fine.

these places include (but are not limited to) if you don't already have them: your asscrack, your back, your ears, and moles. it's fine.

some of you, dick or not, will also lose hair. this is normal, but also if you have ovaries maybe get this checked out for PCOS.

your acne will probably change. some people get better. some people get worse. it's fine.

your nails will probably get an infection or a fungus at least once in your life. this is fine. (but also let your doc know).

how you gain and lose fat and where you do so will change. this is fine.

how you smell will change. this is fine. (fishy or rotten smells mean doctor time though)

if you have a prostate: it gets harder to pee. prostates enlarge as you age (get this checked regularly). this is fine.

if you do not have a prostate: it gets easier to pee but not in a good way. as in as you get older, your pelvic floor muscles tend to lose some of their strength. this makes it harder to keep pee in. this is fine.

all breasts and pectorals eventually sag, with the rest of your body. this is fine.

a decent percent of the population will experience a cyst at least once. some of you will make up for the rest with multiple. this is fine, but keep them checked out by a doctor. (sometimes this is a condition! get checked for that too!)

almost half of everyone gets hemorrhoids. it's a good idea to just expect them since your chances of getting them get higher the older you are. your toilet will look like a murder scene. definitely get your booty checked out BUT this is almost always perfectly normal. just eat more fiber. "but I already-" eat more fiber. and maybe suck it up and buy some hemorrhoid cream, you'll thank me later.

yes, this means you will probably need to make an appointment for a doctor to see your butthole. it's okay. not only do they really not care but 1. they've seen weirder that day and 2. they'd far rather you see them now than later when it's been going on for forty years and now it might be colon cancer. it's okay. consider it a rite of passage.

adults need more sleep than children. don't believe the myth that you need less than they do. that is capitalist propaganda to make you give up more of your life to the work grind, comrade.

vitamins and medicine, something you are more likely to take as you get older, sometimes make the toilet turn weird colors. it's okay.

if you still have your tonsils and get those little stones and get sore throats more than once a year you should plan on getting those suckers out before the tonsils cause an infection and go septic. if you're getting stones at all you should get those reevaluated every year, especially if the stones are bigger than a needlehead (or get bigger over time). it's gross and yucky. I don't care. get them looked at before you end up in the hospital.

you'll probably need to add foot support to your shoes if you don't already do. this is fine.

your body changes. sometimes it can feel sorta weird and upsetting that it isn't what it used to be. that is okay, and it is okay to be upset. just know that this is normal, it's normal to be upset or not upset, but don't let it hinder your quality of life. trans or cis, there is a certain level of acceptance you just gotta give your body and forgive your body for as you get older. it's okay.

it's okay. I promise.

[heba-baker]

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Hello, I am Heba Al-Anqar, 21 years old, a university student. My university was suspended due to the war. I am writing about my family: my father Bakr (54 years old), my mother Alaa (46 years old), and my sisters Aya (18 years old), Amal (15 years old), Muhammad (13 years old), and Maryam (8 years old). We have faced many challenges in this war, from the destruction of our home to the famine we continue to suffer in northern Gaza.

My father suffers from heart problems. He had open-heart surgery when he was 36 years old. He also suffers from cartilage problems. He had his pelvic joint replaced about two years ago, in addition to other health problems. He cannot work due to his health condition.

My mother also suffers from asthma and shortness of breath, in addition to the difficulty of obtaining treatment due to the conditions and the war.

This is our house, which was destroyed by war

We have become homeless in places of refuge, in addition to the difficulty of obtaining medicine, food, and daily expenses

I created this account to request your help in this difficult ordeal by donating to meet the necessary needs, as we were relying on social assistance before the war.

My goal is to help my family live in safety and provide the necessary necessities for living, as there is a high cost of living and difficulty in obtaining necessities. We ask for your help in leaving the Gaza Strip to save my family’s life. The cost of travel is $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child, in addition to travel and accommodation expenses of $500 per month.

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[pineapplesagainstpizza]

1 thing they don't tell you about being treated for vaginismus is how angry you feel all the time

[mental-mona]

Have a UK pelvic pain support network that has lots of stuff relevant to people in other countries. It is a registered charity that provides support, info, advocacy, and education for patients and carers, and gives input on clinician education and some NHS stuff. Hopefully it helps someone. (They're pretty useless for interstitial cystitis, though.)

[wryn-redacted-thrives]

just stumbled across a medical article whose title starts with “Let us settle the controversy” which in this case seems to be “shut the fuck up” but with decorum. It’s basically a bunch of Australian doctors saying ‘give us back the thing we’ve been using to save lives for decades you dumb fucks’ and throwing a textbook through the metaphorical window of the Australian equivalent of the FDA.

“Unsurprisingly, this reflects over 50 years of published literature and established practice and is supported by major international guidelines.”

It ends with encouraging others in their field to publish their safety data “to prevent a repeat of these events in other countries.”

this is possibly the most passive-aggressive thing i’ve ever read, and also an incredibly badass paper, goddamn.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

My Wife: whatcha thinking about

Me: Australia used to be populated by giant shortfaced kangaroos that walked like a man.

My Wife: what the fuck

Me: check it out

Unlike modern macropodids, which hop (either bipedally or quadrupedally), sthenurines seem to have abandoned saltation as a means of locomotion. Their comparatively inflexible spines, robust hindlimb and pelvic elements, and the lack of capacity for rapid hopping suggest that these animals walked bipedally, somewhat like hominids, even converging with those primates in details of their pelvic anatomy. Furthermore, their hooved single digits and metatarsal anatomy suggest that unlike their plantigrade relatives, sthenurines were digitigrade, walking on the tips of their "toes".

Procoptodon was not able to hop as a mode of transportation, and would have been unable to accelerate sufficiently due to its weight. Broad hips and ankle joints, adapted to resist torsion or twisting, point to an upright posture where weight is supported by one leg at a time. Its broad hips also allowed for another important modification – large buttocks – a feature shared with other walking species

Me: so yea

My Wife: no but actually what the fuck

[wellhealthhub]

Navigating the Postpartum Journey: A Comprehensive Guide

Congratulations on the arrival of your precious little one! As you embark on this profound journey of motherhood, it becomes imperative to delve into the intricacies that define the postpartum period, a phase as transformative as it is tender. Embarking on the Postpartum Passage The postpartum phase, often referred to as the fourth trimester, signifies an interval of remarkable shifts and…

[artificialgirl]

These things are to me what that pelvic V is to normal people like. I swear to god this design element is too good (realistically functional) (physically attractive) for me not to add abdominal supports like this to nearly every character I make. Than you Ippei Gyōbyu and Naohiro Washio for your service

[kaijutegu]

Alligator Bites Might Never Heal, But Doechii Is Good At Holding Alligators

Doechii won the Grammy for Best Rap Album for Alligator Bites Never Heal, but she also should have won the coveted and definitely not fictitious "Best Alligator Handling" award for the way she held Coconut on the cover!

(Yes, it's this Coconut.)

And the best part? She released a BTS video showing how they shot the cover, meaning that we can see more than just the still image! If a picture's worth a thousand words, video's worth... a lot more. (Sorry if it autoplays I don't think I have any control over that either way)

So, using the photoshoot images and video as evidence, let's take a look at how Doechii handled this alligator very well! I'm going to go into excruciating detail here because I think it's important to know why something is good just as much as it is important to know why something is bad. It's hard to understand alligator body language a lot of the time, so in this writeup, I will address how Doechii's holding the gator and what she's doing right, as well as point out how you can tell from Coconut's reactions that she is not distressed.

Body Support

In the album cover image, Doechii is seated, which is good, because even though she's a small alligator, Coconut is a very strong and powerful creature. That tail is pure muscle! But even in the standing images, you can see that Doechii is giving Coconut great body support and holding her correctly- close to the body, but without grabbing too tightly or being restrained uncomfortably. I think for a gator of this size I would have recommended pinning the back foreleg against her body for a little additional support and movement restriction- but I don't think she had to restrict movement because Coconut seems quite relaxed!

In the seated image, Doechii has one hand under Coconut's chest, supporting her sternum and head. The other hand is on top of her tail, and her knee is under the pelvic girdle. This type of hold lets the alligator feel safe; remember that these are aquatic and terrestrial creatures. An insecure hold that risks dropping them is going to stress them out and make them uncomfortable. By holding the alligator gently against her body and not squeezing, she's avoiding any uncomfortable pressure.

Head and Throat Support

In all of the images, Doechii is bringing her hand under Coconut's neck, creating a cradle with her hand so that the alligator can rest her head. But what she's not doing is she is not squeezing or grabbing the throat. The throat is one of the soft bits of an alligator, and squeezing it too tightly is very uncomfortable for them. But the way Doechii is supporting her gives her several degrees of freedom to move her head if she so chooses.

Body Language

Another indication of good handling is that it's clear that Coconut is not uncomfortably stressed. Alligators express displeasure with being held in a lot of ways, including struggling to get away, hissing, and holding their mouths open. (If you want to know more and see my sources, you can read my post on alligator body language. LOTS of info there, including peer-reviewed ethology sources that explain what alligators do and why they do it! Go get your data-driven answers!)

But Coconut isn't doing that; she's calm and alert. You can see in the BTS video that she's active on set. She's not shut down, and when she wants to walk around, she's not restrained. Obviously the video is an edited timelapse, and it's not the whole story- but when people show alligators in media, they usually don't know enough about them to edit out any uncomfortable body language. So I think that if she had been upset, we would have seen that.

We can also see in the video that Coconut is unbanded, meaning her mouth was not held shut. I thought they might have banded her and then edited the band out for the cover, but no, there was nothing restricting any distress cues. Banding is usually done for public safety, but the facility Coconut's from... doesn't do that, so I'm not surprised she's unbanded. At least it gives more evidence that she's not trying to gape!

One more good indicator that Coconut was comfortable is that she's got her eyes open, which you can even kinda see in the video if you zoom in. Reptiles will often squinch their eyes shut to avoid distressing stimuli or signal distress, and albino alligators have even more reasons to do this. They're much more sensitive to light than their pigmented counterparts. But it looks like her on-set work was completed quickly, meaning that she didn't have to be around bright lights for long.

In conclusion:

Doechii's album cover is an example of good alligator handling. Yay!

That said, please note that this is only about handling and is divorced from any other issues surrounding this particular alligator. (Read the body language post if you want more on that.) These are not issues I'm touching in this post, because that's not the point! I simply want to point out an instance of good handling and how you can identify relaxed body language in an animal that is notoriously hard to read when posted on social media.