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Emma Hayes, Chelsea Women’s Football Manager talks Pelvic Floor

Pelvic floor health is a massively important part of managing urinary incontinence. It’s thought that 1 in 3 women experience leakage after childbirth but in reality, that number could be even higher. This is usually due to the pelvic floor undergoing huge stress during childbirth, which then leads to urine leaks when coughing, sneezing, exercising or just living.

But, not everyone realises that you can rebuild and strengthen your pelvic floor. In doing so, you can begin to ease the symptoms of urinary incontinence.

Emma Hayes, Manager of Chelsea Women’s Football Team recently sat down with Sky Sports on their podcast named ‘Real Talk’. During her interview, she explains the importance of pelvic floor health and why she’s calling for change in this space.

“After having my son Harry, I realised it from a personal perspective. I wanted to ensure that when Melanie Leupolz (Midfielder) had a baby that she could avoid all the pitfalls that I had experienced.

Working on pelvic floor control and everything around that is critical to your epicentre, to your balance, the way you move, and the way you pee. It’s something that gets overlooked because of lack of knowledge and lack of awareness around it.

The reality is we have to deal with so many different things, the way our hips are shaped, Q angles and that we have different body parts, to the fact we have menstrual cycles, weve got ovaries, everything we have to deal with, in a much different way and unfortunately that expertise is not widely known"

(For reference, a ‘Q Angle’ is also known as a quadriceps angle. It is defined as the angle formed between the quadriceps muscles and the patella tendon).

You can watch the clip here.

If you’d like to learn a bit more about how to build a strong pelvic floor, why not try some of the exercises in our video below?

Why build a strong pelvic floor?

A strong pelvic floor doesn’t just help to curb your leakage (although that’s a biggy!) it also has a host of other benefits too.

Reduces your risk of developing or experiencing incontinence
Helps with post-pregnancy and post-labour recovery
Helps to prevent organ prolapse
Increases your back and pelvic stability

If you’re still keen to learn more, you can find more information about how to build a strong pelvic floor and why it’s important in our blog post.

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Header image credit: Chelsea Women's Football Team - https://www.chelseafc.com/en/teams/profile/emma-hayes

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