Pilates exercises focus on core strength, and the levator ani muscle is inherently part of the core due to its function in ...

Pelvic floor muscles are important for giving you the right support when you’re pregnant, and through birth. Your pelvic floor muscles help control your bladder and bowel. They are also important for ...

The pelvic floor also allows for pregnancy and parturition. The urethra, vagina and rectum are kept closed by the constant resting tone of the levator ani muscle fibers that loop around these ...

With LAS, tension or spasms occur in the levator ani muscle—a broad, funnel-shaped muscle that supports the pelvic floor and ...

In the normal individual, the levator ani muscles keep the pelvic floor closed, allowing the pelvic and abdominal viscera to rest on the levator ani, significantly reducing tension on the ...

For women, this often happens during pregnancy and after childbirth, when coughing, sneezing or laughing can cause urine to ...

Rosanna Ng is a titled pelvic floor physiotherapist treating patients with stress incontinence; urgency and frequency problem as well as tight and painful pelvic floor muscles or poor defaecation ...