What are the symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation?

Pelvic floor muscle relaxation is a problem encountered by many postpartum women. Generally speaking, the pelvic floor muscles are prone to relaxation after childbirth, which will affect vaginal relaxation. Pelvic floor muscle relaxation will manifest as lower abdominal pain, frequent urination, constipation, etc. It is also very harmful to the body, easily leading to increased burden on the waist muscles, and symptoms of frequent back pain, which greatly affects normal work and life.

What are the symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation?

Pregnancy and childbirth are a natural physiological stage that many women have to go through. Although this stage allows women to experience the pride and joy of being a mother, it also causes certain injuries to a greater or lesser extent. Because women's body circumference, hormone levels, weight, and abdominal volume undergo tremendous changes during the ten months of pregnancy, the pelvic floor muscles will gradually relax and be damaged due to continuous pressure, so they are prone to symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation. We often see many poems or articles praising the greatness and selflessness of mothers. Indeed, mothers play a great role. Whether it is the efforts during pregnancy or raising the baby after birth, the effort and hardship involved in this process are unimaginable for ordinary people.

When it comes to the topic of the manifestations of pelvic floor muscle relaxation, in the early stages it may only manifest as vaginal relaxation, impaired sexual life, lower abdominal distension, frequent urination, urgency, constipation and other discomforts. However, as the condition worsens and is not effectively treated, it may slowly evolve into urinary incontinence, uterine prolapse, bladder and rectal prolapse, etc. The symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation can cause unspeakable pain to women and seriously affect their quality of life. Its harmfulness is obvious.

What are the dangers of pelvic floor muscle relaxation?

(1) Increased burden on the waist and back muscles : With the influence of pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, women's abdominal pressure changes abnormally, and the lumbar spine protrudes forward, resulting in increased stress on the waist and back. Once the burden on the waist and back muscles increases seriously, it will cause great damage to the health of the waist and back. Therefore, women may often experience problems such as low back pain, which will cause great trouble to their normal life and work.

(2) Stress urinary incontinence : Relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles can easily cause the bladder neck to drop, which can easily lead to urine leakage when laughing, coughing or sneezing. Imagine that if you suddenly sneeze, urine will flow out involuntarily. Such an embarrassing situation is simply "fatal".

(3) Secondary infection : Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction can cause the mucosa to become thinner, which can easily lead to a decrease in the body's immunity, thereby increasing the chance of infection. The phenomenon of female infection is very common in daily life, but the damage caused by infection cannot be ignored. There are many people in life who suffer from serious consequences such as impaired body function and infertility due to gynecological infection. Therefore, don’t think that the problem of infection is very small and you can be "safe and sound" by just dealing with it casually. You don’t know that a series of potential crises are quietly happening.

The symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation are very prominent. Once a postpartum woman shows related symptoms, she must pay attention to active treatment and conduct rehabilitation exercises to avoid a series of hazards. Don't ever think that everything is fine and you can be completely relieved after giving birth. If you don't pay attention to postpartum pelvic floor muscle exercise, and a series of adverse symptoms of pelvic floor muscle relaxation appear afterwards, it will be too late to think about exercise treatment at that time, and the effect of the treatment will be far less effective than when you just gave birth.