Posted on 09/14/2024 9:31:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Older women struggling with urinary incontinence can benefit from regular, low-impact exercise, with yoga as well as stretching and strengthening showing benefits in a new study.
After 12 weeks of a low-impact yoga program, study participants had about 65% fewer episodes of incontinence. Women in a control group doing stretching and strengthening exercises experienced a similar benefit over the same time period. The benefits are on par with the effects of medications used to address incontinence, the researchers said.
The study compared two 12-week exercise programs: 121 participants were randomly assigned to yoga, and 119 to a physical conditioning control group.
In the yoga program, participants learned 16 hatha yoga poses intended to strengthen the pelvic floor, via two 90-minute sessions per week. Participants were also asked to practice yoga for at least one hour per week outside of class and to maintain a practice log.
Participants in the control group spent an equal amount of time in exercise classes, but their classes focused on nonspecific stretching and strengthening exercises that did not engage the pelvic floor. They were also asked to practice for an additional hour per week and keep a practice log.
At the beginning, participants had an average of 3.4 episodes of urinary incontinence per day, including 1.9 urgency-type episodes and 1.4 stress-type episodes.
By the end of the 12-week programs, participants in the yoga group were experiencing 2.3 fewer episodes of incontinence per day, on average. Those in the physical conditioning group were experiencing 1.9 fewer episodes per day.
The two treatments are about equally effective, with both approaches reducing episodes of incontinence by around 60%, Subak said. Patients who would like to try these approaches can search for low-impact Iyengar yoga or low-impact exercise classes in their communities or online, she said.
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The body can still do some healing, years later.
Just a few yoga exercises a day, or simple squats, planks, and pushups, will do SO MUCH to keep you mobile and not falling apart when you're old.
This is a post chemo issue as well
PT specialists are the answer
Plates is better
Yoga is a Hindu prayer. It’s against my Christian religion
(Hey, Boo-Boo!)
I saw a kook, who was standing on his head
He flipped his lid, like he should have been in bed
I said, "What gives, man?"
He looked at me and said:
"I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby"
Hey, Boo-Boo!
And then the cat started strutting on hot coals
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes
He sang right out from the bottom of his soles:
"I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby"
Hey, Boo-Boo!
"Now listen here, baby," the Yogi man said
"It's all a matter of the mind
Just commune with your innermost being
And, baby, you'll be just fine."
He was hip, all right, wasn't he?
So I tried my best to dig my inner mе
I walked on coals, my hair below my knee
Until at last I heard mе say perfectly:
"I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi
I'm a Yogi, baby"
Hey, Boo-Boo!
Hey, Boo-Boo!
Hey, Boo-Boo!
I found the lazy possum position drives women mad.
Sometimes they get concerned about me but eventually it just irritates them to see me laying on the couch.
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