Tag: breathing

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Pelvic Floor | Breathe!

New Year’s Resolutions For Your Pelvic Floor | Breathe!

Believe it or not, the pelvic floor can affect the quality of our breathing. The opposite is also true: Promoting efficient diaphragmatic breathing can improve function of the pelvic floor. In this study by Zivkovic et al. Zivkovic et al. , diaphragmatic breathing exercises were effective in helping to retrain children with voiding dysfunctions, including […]

How Smoking Affects Bladder Health

How Smoking Affects Bladder Health

Bladder Health Month and the Great American Smokeout – November 21st In honor of both, today we are going to cover how smoking affects bladder health Doctors have known for decades that smoking affects lung and heart health, greatly increasing risk of both lung cancer and heart disease. In recent research, they have been finding that smoking […]