what stretches have you guys been doing that seem to help with your condition apart from the ones in AHIP......
I do pigeon pose
legs V against the wall, back on ground
stretches apart from ahip
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stretches apart from ahip
Age:29 | Onset Age:19 | Symptoms: constant discomfort, dribbling | Helped By: Stanford/Wise-Anderson Protocol, jogging, taking it easy | Worsened By:
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tamdc
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I don't have a picture for this, but my PT gave me 1 exercise to do to relax the pelvic muscles:
Lie on your back with your lower legs or ankles supported on a chair. Place your fingertips on the outside of your knees (right hand goes with right knee, left with left). Push your knees outward diagonally while at the same time pushing your fingertips into your knees. Your legs really shouldn't move since your fingers should be providing resistance. As you push, exhale deeply and try to relax your pelvic muscles. Hold each push for a count of 5 and do 5x per set. Do this several times a day (when possible).
If you do it right, you will relax your pelvic muscles! I have done this for a couple of weeks now and it really seems to be working for me. At first, I didn't notice much in the way of improvement, but I think it does work on a cumulative basis by giving overstressed muscles a chance to fully relax (at least for a short time).
Lie on your back with your lower legs or ankles supported on a chair. Place your fingertips on the outside of your knees (right hand goes with right knee, left with left). Push your knees outward diagonally while at the same time pushing your fingertips into your knees. Your legs really shouldn't move since your fingers should be providing resistance. As you push, exhale deeply and try to relax your pelvic muscles. Hold each push for a count of 5 and do 5x per set. Do this several times a day (when possible).
If you do it right, you will relax your pelvic muscles! I have done this for a couple of weeks now and it really seems to be working for me. At first, I didn't notice much in the way of improvement, but I think it does work on a cumulative basis by giving overstressed muscles a chance to fully relax (at least for a short time).
Age: 37 | Onset Age: 35 | Symptoms: Burning after urination, ache in left side. | Helped By: Hot baths, phys. therapy, relaxation (especially moment to moment), walking, Flexeril, Ativan/Xanax, Cymbalta. | Worsened By: Prolonged sitting, stress
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DavidinLA
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Please post diagrams of these stretches whenever possible. I'm sorry, but I just cannot grasp the concept of these stretches from a verbal destription.
Age: 39; | Onset Age: 34; | Symptoms: pain in the glans, rectal pain (seldom), intermitent ED; | Helped By: relaxing, rest; | Worsened By: Spicy food, stress, fatigue
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scoobysnacks
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Do you mean horizontally or away from the center of your body, the diagonal part was the only thing I didn't get.tamdc wrote:I don't have a picture for this, but my PT gave me 1 exercise to do to relax the pelvic muscles:
Lie on your back with your lower legs or ankles supported on a chair. Place your fingertips on the outside of your knees (right hand goes with right knee, left with left). Push your knees outward diagonally while at the same time pushing your fingertips into your knees. Your legs really shouldn't move since your fingers should be providing resistance. As you push, exhale deeply and try to relax your pelvic muscles. Hold each push for a count of 5 and do 5x per set. Do this several times a day (when possible).
If you do it right, you will relax your pelvic muscles! I have done this for a couple of weeks now and it really seems to be working for me. At first, I didn't notice much in the way of improvement, but I think it does work on a cumulative basis by giving overstressed muscles a chance to fully relax (at least for a short time).
Age:29 | Onset Age: 25.5 | Symptoms: Initially burning in prostate/perineum, burning in urethra, uncontrollable muscle contraction before urinating, dual ache in groin, left testicle pain, feeling of golf ball in rectum, soarness in rectum, and muscle spasms, now mainly very mild urinary tract inflammation, burning mildly after ejaculation, some days after physical activity involuntary mild muscle contraction before urinating | Helped By: .5 mg of Ativan, Aleve (naproxen), quercetin, alcohol in large quantities (vodka and soda), stretching, walking, internal massage the perineum area and levators. | Worsened By: sitting, weightraining, jogging, coffee, caffeine in general, alcohol bothered me at first, overdoing sex
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tamdc
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I knew this was going to be hard to describe...but this has been working for me, so I wanted to let people know about it.
Anyway, position your knees so that they are pointing outside your shoulders. Your knees should not be parallel to your body. Once you're on your back, just open your lower legs up by letting them fall a bit to each side. Then they'll be pointing diagonally, sort of like this: / \
Anyway, position your knees so that they are pointing outside your shoulders. Your knees should not be parallel to your body. Once you're on your back, just open your lower legs up by letting them fall a bit to each side. Then they'll be pointing diagonally, sort of like this: / \
Age: 37 | Onset Age: 35 | Symptoms: Burning after urination, ache in left side. | Helped By: Hot baths, phys. therapy, relaxation (especially moment to moment), walking, Flexeril, Ativan/Xanax, Cymbalta. | Worsened By: Prolonged sitting, stress
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i think i understand
i think I understand lol thanks
found this
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/690_1.cfm
sort of gives u the idea for strech against wall(without ball and moving legs to either side), just let your legs go into v
one described
found this while I was lookin may try some of them:
go to 2A
http://www.womenfitness.net/top10_wall_stretches.htm
found this
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/690_1.cfm
sort of gives u the idea for strech against wall(without ball and moving legs to either side), just let your legs go into v
one described
found this while I was lookin may try some of them:
go to 2A
http://www.womenfitness.net/top10_wall_stretches.htm
Age:29 | Onset Age:19 | Symptoms: constant discomfort, dribbling | Helped By: Stanford/Wise-Anderson Protocol, jogging, taking it easy | Worsened By: