Your pelvic floor is essential. Here's how to take better care of it

你的盆底肌至关重要。以下是如何更好地呵护它的方法。

Life Kit

2025-06-16

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Your pelvic floor helps with all sorts of bodily functions — it helps you go to the bathroom, breathe, and orgasm, and it supports your internal organs. But pelvic floor dysfunction can lead to painful sex, constipation, urinary leakage, and pelvic pain. In this episode, we talk with pelvic floor physical therapist Sara Reardon about how to treat pelvic floor dysfunction and the basics of keeping your pelvic floor healthy and functioning. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Okay, so painful sex,

  • urinary leakage, constipation, tailbone pain.

  • What do these unpleasant experiences have in common?

  • They can all be symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction.

  • What is the pelvic floor, you ask?

  • It's a basket of muscles that sits at the bottom of the pelvis and supports our internal organs.

  • Your pelvic floor helps you pee and poop.

  • It helps you breathe.

  • It can help you have orgasms.

  • And if you have a vagina,

  • it can help you give birth.