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		<title>Who is Dr. Magnus Murphy?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Magnus Murphy MD/OBGYN, certified surgeon and Dr. of Gynecology and Obstetrics for more than 15 years, has dedicated his practice to the specialization of the female pelvic floor. In 2001 Dr. Murphy astonished the gynecological community by publishing “Pelvic Health &#38; Childbirth” &#8211; a book in which he describes radical approaches to managing the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Dr. Magnus Murphy MD/OBGYN, certified surgeon and Dr. of Gynecology and Obstetrics for more than 15 years, has dedicated his practice to the specialization of the female pelvic floor.  In 2001 Dr. Murphy astonished the gynecological community by publishing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“</span>Pelvic Health &amp; Childbirth<span style="text-decoration: underline;">”</span> &#8211; a book in which he describes radical approaches to managing the health of the female pelvic floor. </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em><strong>Dr. Murphy is currently the Divisional Chief of Uro-gynecology for the Calgary Health Region, where it is widely recognized that he is an expert in vaginal and pelvic floor surgery and pelvic floor disorders.</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #009798; font-size: medium;">What does Dr. Murphy have to say about the Kegelmaster™?</span></p>
<p>If you are currently suffering from <strong>incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pubococcygeus muscle or another vaginal or pelvic floor disorder,</strong> you must take serious consideration of the Kegelmaster™ as a viable non-surgical means of treatment.</p>
<p>The Kegelmaster is one of the <strong>most proven</strong> progressive resistance devices of its type in the world, and has a <strong>successful track record</strong> that dates back to its inception of more than ten years ago.  Its straightforward revolutionary and innovative incorporation of progressive resistance makes it one of the few, and possibly only, devices that truly satisfy Dr. Kegel’s original objectives set forth in his development of the original Kegel exercise.  It has been clinically shown to be one of <strong>the most effective exercisers</strong> in reconditioning weakened or damaged pelvic floor muscles and alleviating pelvic floor disorders including most forms of incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, bladder prolapse (cystocele), uterine prolapse (rectocele).</p>
<p><strong>I wholeheartedly endorse the Kegelmaster™ and this is not an endorsement that I make lightly.  Simply put, in my, more than, 15 years of dedicated specialization in pelvic floor disorders and research into treatment options, I have not found a better non-surgical solution capable of delivering the level of results equivalent to that of the Kegelmaster™.</strong> <strong> </strong></p>
<p>I truly believe that the Kegelmaster can improve the quality of your life.  For more than a decade now, it has safely done so for millions of women who were suffering just like you.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
<img src="http://www.kegelmasters.com/custom/domains/26/sites/44/CONTENT/5493/img_filename_1153789356377.gif" alt="" width="102" height="30" /><br />
Dr. Magnus Murphy MD/OBGYN</p>
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		<title>Kegelmaster and Pelvic floor exercises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people go to the gym to improve their muscle tone. What do you use to improve the tone of your muscles, you don&#8217;t do leg extensions in mid-air expecting to get great results, do you? You need weight or resistance. Even if you do the exercises recommended by the medical profession you will find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people go to the gym to improve their muscle tone. What do you use to improve the tone of your muscles, you don&#8217;t do leg extensions in mid-air expecting to get great results, do you? You need weight or resistance. Even if you do the exercises recommended by the medical profession you will find that you have had little or no success with your pelvic floor, it&#8217;s the same as any other muscles in your body, only more important, you need to have some form of resistance to tone a muscle.</p>
<p>Kegel exercises or Pelvic floor exercises (getting its name from Dr. Arnold Kegel who researched the pelvic floor) are recommended as the cure for associated pelvic ailments. Has anyone had any real success from kegal exercises? Probably not, because nobody ever tells you, Dr. Arnold Kegel intended the kegel exercise to be done with resistance; this is what the <a href="http://amazingkegelmaster.com/category/kegel-master/">kegelmaster</a> does, like no other product.</p>
<p>Pelvic floor exercises or kegel exercises (named from Dr. Arnold Kegel who did much research on the pelvic floor) are recommended universally as the cure for the above ailments. Has anyone had any real success from this? The answer: &#8211; probably not, because nobody ever tells you that Dr. Arnold Kegel intended the kegel exercise to be done with resistance, this is what the kegelmaster does, like no other product.</p>
<p>We go to the gym to increase muscle tone, mass and strength. Some think that aerobic exercises help build mass and strength, WRONG. We need weight or resistance in conjunction with repetition to get real results. Aerobics only improves the look not the strength. This is why you have had little or no success with your pelvic floor; it&#8217;s the same as any other muscle in your body only more important.</p>
<p>In childbirth, the pelvic floor can become overstretched, or torn, and the muscular hammock no longer provides support, which could result in urinary incontinence, constipation or incomplete bowel or bladder emptying, irritable bowel symptoms, diminished sexual satisfaction, painful intercourse, inability to use tampons, sagging or prolapse of the uterus, bladder, or rectum, or lower abdominal pain, all of these can be improved by using a kegelmaster.</p>
<p>In childbirth, the pelvic floor can be stretched, or torn, and the muscular hammock can no longer provide support, which may result in urinary incontinence, irritable bowel symptoms, constipation or incomplete bowel or bladder emptying, diminished sexual satisfaction, painful intercourse, sagging or prolapse of the uterus, bladder, or rectum, or lower abdominal pain, inability to use tampons, all of these can be improved by using a <a href="http://amazingkegelmaster.com/category/kegel-master/">kegelmaster</a>.</p>
<p>In the 1940&#8242;s, Dr. Kegel discovered that the best way to strengthen the vaginal muscles is by resistance strength training. These squeeze and hold vaginal or pelvic floor exercises are now known as Kegels.</p>
<p>There is every chance of reversing a prolapse when it is in its early stage, with the help of a kegelmaster. Unfortunately some women wait until it is too late to take action and there is a point of no return after which surgery does become necessary.</p>
<p>Dr. Kegel found that through using resistance exercise it was possible to not only eliminate stress incontinence effectively and safely, but that it was possible to reverse a uterine prolapse by as much as 5 to 7cm. Some would say that using a kegelmaster nearly as important to a woman as regular pap smears.</p>
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		<title>An Enlightened Approach to Kegel Exercises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard that a definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result. Isn&#8217;t that what we&#8217;ve done for years with Kegel exercises? Countless hours of practising while wondering if we&#8217;d got the right muscle, or if there was any point in doing the exercises anyway [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve all heard that a definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that what we&#8217;ve done for years with Kegel exercises? Countless hours of practising while wondering if we&#8217;d got the right muscle, or if there was any point in doing the exercises anyway as we weren&#8217;t really feeling that our effort was making any difference.</p>
<p>A little known fact about Kegel exercises which often surprises people when they first hear it is that they were never meant to be performed the way in which they are today. Indeed, they were never meant to be performed the way they have been for decades!</p>
<p>Dr Kegel was an American surgeon, Associate Professor of Gynaecology at the University of Southern California and Health Commissioner of Chicago, who spent more than thirty-two years in the study of the female pelvis and the muscles therein.</p>
<p>His studies document his results with thousands of women that show the incredible benefits to be gained from Kegel exercises when performed correctly. In 1950 Dr Kegel had achieved complete relief of urinary stress incontinence in 93% of a group of 300 women in this way.</p>
<p>&#8220;On the strength of these favorable results urinary stress incontinence in women is no longer routinely treated by surgical intervention at&#8230;LA County General Hospital.&#8221; Dr Kegel. (A progress in Gynecology, 1950 p.786)</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing to think that the results he was getting in the last century are even better than the generally accepted success rates for incontinence surgery carried out today? How were these results achieved? By ensuring that the exercise protocol that his patients followed consisted of two essential elements:</p>
<p>1) Isolating the pelvic floor muscle (using no abdominal, buttock or thigh muscles) 2) Working the pelvic floor muscle against resistance</p>
<p>What is commonly known as a Kegel exercise today bears little relation to authentic Kegel exercises. Dr Kegel knew that the exercises were pretty useless without either of these components. If you&#8217;ve been struggling to get results with Kegel exercises, maybe for years, now you know why they seem to be exercises in futility.</p>
<p>Think about it like this &#8211; Squeezing against nothing is about as effective as trying to rehabilitate or build muscle in your arm simply by flexing it up and down, you could do that forever and see little improvement. However, put a small weight in your hand and exercise against the resistance of that, adding slightly heavier weights as the arm gets stronger and improvement in strength and tone is inevitable.</p>
<p>Imagine going to the gym and finding all the equipment has been taken out and you&#8217;re told you can go through the motions of doing the exercise and achieve the same result! This is what women have been told about pelvic floor exercise over the last half century, and still are. By merely going through the motions of doing the exercise you cannot come close to achieving the results that come from actually doing the proper exercise.</p>
<p>Dr Kegel was quoted in TIME magazine, Dec 3rd, 1956 as saying, &#8220;There is a better way than surgery to correct most cases of pubococcygeal weakness&#8221;.</p>
<p>Considering the vast amount of surgery that is carried out for incontinence and prolapse today, it has to be fairly obvious at this stage that there is something missing from pelvic floor exercises as is normally taught.</p>
<p>An enlightened approach to Kegel exercises involves asking the questions &#8220;What is missing here?&#8221; Why are women not getting the results they were promised?&#8221; It is clearly insane to keep teaching women to squeeze against nothing, when the results of such a misguided approach are so poor. Performing the exercises as they were meant to be performed produces real results.</p>
<p>Abigail O’Donovan is the founder of Kegelmaster Europe. She aims to raise awareness that powerful pelvic floor exercises could eliminate stress incontinence and reduce the need for unnecessary pelvic surgery to near zero. To find out more please visit http://www.kegelmaster.co.uk</p>
<p>Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Abigail_O&#8217;Donovan</p>
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