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A Cure for Incontinence
One Woman's Story of Hope
By Lyn Mettler
Finally, Nett helps students tone and strengthen these muscle groups through specially-designed yoga postures based on the Iyengar method of yoga, which emphasizes proper alignment. Women have to retrain their bodies, she insists. "Once we work these muscles, they will start working again," says Nett. "These muscles can be conditioned. It's just like conditioning the muscle of your arm."
How long does it take? It depends on your condition, age and other factors, says Nett, but most people can expect to regain full urinary continence within months. She recommends students work the pelvic muscles using Felt Sense whenever they think about it – even while driving in the car.
Besides restoring continence, Nett says strengthening the pelvic floor through Felt Sense can provide a variety of other benefits.
A lax pelvic floor can make sex less fulfilling, she says. By restoring strength to those muscles, women can gain increased orgasm intensity and frequency. Weak pelvic floors also can cause women to bring air into the vagina during intercourse, according to Nett, which can make an embarrassing sound.
In addition, a strong pelvic floor should be a precursor to serious weightlifting, she says. Many women have injured the vaginal muscles if they begin training before the pelvic floor is properly strengthened.
Today, Nett is proud to say she can go for several hours before using the restroom after feeling the initial urge to urinate. That's a long way from her days of dashing to the nearest toilet, and it's a path down which she hopes she can guide many others.
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