Pelvic floor and connective tissue weakness

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The pelvic floor forms part of the deep inner myofascia (the Deep Front Line, DFL). This runs through the whole length of the body from the feet to the head. I believe training it only partially cannot achieve the hoped-for strength and stability. I decided to design a training programme that strengthens and activates the whole group of structures to which the pelvic floor also belongs. I took exercises that I had already developed for clients with weak connective tissue, and combined these with another area of knowledge that I had: how training can be used to strengthen breathing and voice function. The most important respiratory muscle is the diaphragm. The pelvic floor also belongs to the group of muscles we use to support the process of breathing.To strengthen the pelvic floor, it is necessary: 1. to stabilize the legs in their support of the pelvis, and thus the pelvic floor, from below, and at the same time 2.to train the pelvic floor from above, as we might say, by activating the respiratory system The pelvic floor and diaphragm are the two most important horizontal structures in the body. These horizontal myofascial structures are part of the deep (myo-)fascia (DFL). They play an important dy-namic role in providing stability and flexibility of the abdominal and chest cavities.

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Petra Kunz Blunert
authorPetra Kunz Blunert was born in Hamburg; her first career was as a trained nurse. Following this, she studied at the Academy of Music in Lübeck, specialising in operatic and concert singing. She then taught singing for a number of years. Thanks to her medical background, she noticed how important the function of the body is for the voice. This moti-vated her to train as a teacher of the Alexander technique1, qualifying in Copenhagen in 2002. Since then she has worked intensively with individual clients and groups, developing her own methods and techniques. Petra’s main focus has always been to find out how all parts of the body are interconnected and work together. She observed that the myofascial system not only holds all anatomical parts of the body to-gether, it also works dynamically throughout the body. In her practical work, she discovered the vari-ous directions in which muscles and fasciae function: they operate in opposing directions in the body, just like a set of pulleys.

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