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Pelvic Floor Health at Every Life Stage

For women and men. A clearer understanding.

Pelvic-floor health is not only a postpartum topic. It matters across different bodies and life stages, and involves how muscles support, contract and relax—not simply how strong they are.

This guide explains the basics, what research has studied and how to explore My BioHealth’s fully clothed chair sessions in Campbellfield.

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What is the pelvic floor?

The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and tissues across the base of the pelvis. It supports pelvic organs and contributes to bladder and bowel control.

Function involves both contraction and relaxation. Understanding which part needs support is more useful than assuming every symptom means weakness.

Changes worth discussing

People seek advice about urine leakage, urgency, pelvic discomfort, a feeling of heaviness or changes in sexual comfort. These concerns can have different causes.

Stress urinary incontinence means leakage with pressure such as coughing, sneezing, lifting or exercise. Pelvic organ prolapse describes a change in the position of pelvic organs; it requires appropriate assessment rather than a self-diagnosis or an assumption that a chair is the answer.

Women: beyond postpartum recovery

Pregnancy and after childbirth

Pregnancy and birth can affect pelvic-floor function. Recovery, symptoms and the appropriate timing of treatment vary between people.

Exercise guidance during pregnancy is different from suitability for electromagnetic-chair treatment. My BioHealth’s chair precautions exclude pregnancy; postpartum readiness needs individual review.

Perimenopause, menopause and later life

Menopause can bring changes in bladder control, pelvic tissues and comfort. Hormonal changes are one part of that picture, alongside age, health and earlier birth injuries.

Symptoms should not be dismissed as inevitable, or attributed entirely to oestrogen. A health professional can help identify the relevant factors and options.

Without a pregnancy history

Pelvic-floor concerns are not limited to people who have given birth. The right approach depends on the symptoms and assessment, not a single life-stage label.

Men have a pelvic floor too

Men can experience bladder or bowel control changes and pelvic-floor difficulties. Prostate surgery, constipation, persistent coughing and ageing are among the contexts discussed in continence guidance.

After prostate or other pelvic surgery, seek advice from your treating team about healing and suitable rehabilitation. Evidence from studies in postpartum women is not automatically evidence for a male chair-treatment outcome.

Not every concern is a weakness

Pelvic-floor muscles can be weak, overactive or poorly coordinated. More squeezing is not always the right response, particularly where pain or difficulty relaxing is present.

A GP, pelvic-health physiotherapist or appropriately qualified continence professional can help identify what is happening. This article and an online booking do not provide that diagnosis.

Where pelvic-floor muscle training fits

Pelvic-floor muscle training—often called Kegel exercises—uses voluntary contraction and relaxation. Technique and a suitable plan matter.

NICE guidance recommends a supervised programme of at least three months as first-line treatment for women with stress or mixed urinary incontinence. That recommendation concerns supervised muscle training, not a three-month chair prescription.

Chair-based stimulation is a different approach. Electrical and electromagnetic methods should not be treated as the same device or as universally interchangeable with exercise.

What has the research studied?

Postpartum electromagnetic stimulation trial

A 2025 trial compared electromagnetic stimulation with Kegel exercises in women with stress urinary incontinence at least three months after delivery.

Both groups improved. The stimulation group had higher measured muscle strength, but the groups did not differ significantly on symptom scores, the pad test or treatment compliance.

The stimulation schedule was three sessions weekly for five weeks; exercises followed a different schedule. This is a study protocol, not My BioHealth’s universal recommended course.

A combined postmenopausal programme

A 2024 trial in 50 postmenopausal women compared supervised muscle training with a programme adding electromagnetic stimulation and visceral manipulation.

The combined group recorded greater improvements in the study’s measures. Because several interventions were used together over 12 weeks, the findings do not isolate a chair’s effect or prove that every chair produces those results.

Virtual-reality and gym-ball training

A 2016 randomised trial compared supervised exercise approaches in postmenopausal women. Both improved overall muscle-strength measures; most between-group comparisons were not significantly different.

This helps show why exercise evidence should remain part of the conversation. It does not test My BioHealth’s chair.

Assessment in studies versus a clinic session

Some studies measured strength using a perineometer or vaginal dynamometry, and questionnaires or pad tests assessed different outcomes. Muscle strength and symptom improvement are not identical measures.

Those research assessments should not be mistaken for an examination or measurement offered as part of a My BioHealth chair appointment.

What a chair session at My BioHealth involves

My BioHealth offers 30-minute pelvic-floor chair sessions for women and men, fully clothed in a private room in Campbellfield, Melbourne’s north.

You can book directly online. Relevant precautions and suitability are checked before the session begins. Direct booking does not mean every medical history or symptom is suitable.

See Pelvic Floor Chair Sessions for published pricing, the booking route and the clinic’s detailed precautions.

Suitability and individual guidance

Tell the team about your symptoms, pregnancy or recent birth, implants, recent surgery, infection and medical treatment before a stimulation session. The service page explains the clinic’s screening requirements.

Seek individual medical advice about persistent symptoms, pain, prolapse concerns or changes after surgery. Fully clothed does not mean a device is suitable for everyone.

Common questions

Is pelvic-floor health only relevant after childbirth?

No. It is relevant to women and men across life stages, including people who have never been pregnant.

Does leakage always mean weak muscles?

No. Symptoms have different possible causes, and pelvic-floor function includes relaxation and coordination.

Does a chair replace pelvic-floor exercise or physiotherapy?

Not automatically. Exercise and assessment remain important; suitability for stimulation depends on the person and device.

How many chair sessions will I need?

There is no universal course established by these studies for My BioHealth’s chair. Discuss a plan after suitability review; do not assume a published research schedule applies to you.

Are My BioHealth sessions available to men?

Yes. The published service welcomes women and men, with suitability checked before treatment.

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