02/09/2026
Nobody can see their pelvic floor working. That is the whole problem.
If your squat is wrong, a coach can see it and so can you. If your pelvic floor contraction is wrong, nothing shows. You can be squeezing your glutes, holding your breath, or pushing down instead of lifting, and it feels exactly like doing the exercise. So you keep doing it. For years, sometimes.
"I did them religiously after my first and it made no difference." We hear that a lot. Usually the exercise was fine. The version of it being done was not.
There is another group this catches. Some pelvic floors are too tight, not too weak, and the symptoms overlap: urgency, heaviness, pain with s*x, trouble emptying. For those women, more squeezing is the wrong answer and can make things worse. You cannot tell which type you are from the inside. That is what the assessment is for.
It starts as a conversation, then a check of what your muscles actually do when you ask them to work. There is more than one way to assess, and you choose the one you are comfortable with. From there your program is built on what your body is actually doing, not on a diagram.
If you had a baby six months ago or sixteen years ago. If you leak when you run and never have. If things feel heavy, or you are noticing changes through perimenopause. Or if kegels seem to make things worse rather than better. This is worth one appointment.
Women's health physio at Yarraville and Hampton East. Link in bio.