Empower your pelvic health with empelvic

The Empelvic concept believes that a healthy pelvic floor should be flexible, not just strong, contracting (e.g. to control urine) and relaxing (e.g. during sexual intercourse) when it needs to. But to connect and cooperate with the pelvic floor, the mind needs to engage with it. The Empelvic cushion makes pelvic floor training easy, accessible, and maintainable – helping reinforce this connection between the mind and the body. With versions for women and men, the non-invasive cushion applies targeted pressure in the pelvic floor area to help you feel the pelvic floor muscles move, relax and activate more easily. With this increased contact and awareness, you can better connect with and train the muscles to learn how to relax and gently strengthen the pelvic floor much like you would with any other body part.

Individuals with pelvic floor symptoms, such as urinary incontinence, can find it difficult to know where their pelvic floor muscles are or what it feels like to move them, this is called reduced proprioceptive awareness and is common in any weak muscle. Having good proprioception, enables us to know that a part of our body is doing something without having to visualise this. It combines sensory input from mechanoreceptors in our skin, joints and muscles and sends information to our brains to allow us to plan and coordinate functional movement patterns. 

Proprioception isespecially important with pelvic floor training due to the location of these muscles making harder for any individual to know if they are indeed working the right muscles. You can improve proprioception in many ways, for example breathing techniques can help some people feel the difference between active and rest positions, visualisation can help to train the brains awareness of the movement, and tactile biofeedback can give sensory feedback that you are doing the movement correctly.

The Empelvic cushion is designed to provide you with this tactile biofeedback. The presence of the firm setting under the pelvic floor helps to build a connection with your pelvic floor in a non-invasive way

Find out how empelvic can support you, in the Conditions page: