Archive for April 28th, 2009
This second exercise is easier than the first because it doesn’t require any furniture. All you need is some music. It’s a sort of dance step, but when you first experiment with it, it’s a good idea to dispense with the music and take each movement slowly until you’ve got the hang of it. Start by standing with your feet slightly apart. If you hold your right hand lightly across the front of your belly and rest your left hand in the small of your back you’ll be able to feel your pelvis rocking once you begin.
The pelvic rock consists of two swinging movements, one forward and one backwards. Imagine you’re a kangaroo with a solid tail resting on the floor behind you. Swing that tail
forward and between your legs until it’s resting on the floor in front of you. You’ll find the movements will make you want to bend your knees slightly. So bend them. Now sweep your tail back again until it’s lying on the floor behind you, where it was when you began. Your knees will probably straighten of their own accord as you lift, but if they don’t, straighten them anyway.
Take your time over these two movements and concentrate as much on what’s happening between your hands as what’s happening to your knees and your imagined ‘tail’ and your legs. As you swing the tail forward, you’ll feel the muscles down the front of your belly lift and tense. When you swing your tail back, it will be the muscles in the small of your back that will be doing the work, and yeu’ll probably feel a certain amount of tension down the front of your thighs too. Of course, these muscles should be working. Their action will be doing you good. But don’t let any of the other muscles in your body come out in sympathy. Check that you’re not tensing your bottom or those valuable muscles in your pelvic floor. Keep your shoulders relaxed and don’t frown, no matter how hard you’re concentrating. This is one exercise that really should be done with a smile on your face.
Once you get the hang of it, you’ll find it’s fun, and it won’t be long before you’re dancing to music. Start with fairly slow tunes and progress until you find the rhythm that’s right and comfortable for you. The choice of music is up to you, whether you use reggae records (the beat is perfect!) or something quieter—I know someone who does a lovely slow rock to Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is an exercise you can do at odd moments when you happen to be on your feet. Try it half-way through the washing up. But not in public, please, or you’ll cause a stampede. It’s very sexy.
One final word in his section and that’s about constipation. Lots of women suffer from constipation at period time and of course an overloaded bowel makes all those dragging pains worse. Both these exercises should help to get a sluggish system moving, particularly if you can make time to do them in the morning, quite soon after breakfast.
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Signs and symptoms
A urinary tract infection may produce either no symptoms at all (silent UTI), or any combination of the following: urgency or frequency of urination; painful urination; dribbling of urine; bedwetting; daytime incontinence (inability to control urination); foul-smelling, cloudy, or bloody urine; fever; abdominal or back pain; vomiting; chronic diarrhea; or redness of the external genitals. If the infection is untreated, the symptoms generally disappear in a few days of weeks, but often return later.
The diagnosis of UTI depends upon a careful physical examination, plus urine tests. In boys, the diagnosis involves a search for an obstruction in the urinary tract. In girls, the search for an obstruction is undertaken only after two or three bouts of UTI or one bout with an infection that is resistant to treatment. In an infant, whether boy or girl, investigation for the underlying cause is always undertaken immediately.
Home care
Any attempt at home treatment is potentially dangerous and may result in a low-grade, destructive infection with no outward symptoms.
• A urinary tract infection, particularly one of a series of infections, commonly produces fever, but few or no other symptoms; the doctor’s physical examination reveals nothing unusual.
• To obtain a urine specimen for analysis or culture, cleanse the genitals and collect the portion at the midpoint of urination. In this way, the urine sample will not be contaminated.
Medical treatment
Your doctor will conduct a complete physical examination, including taking your child’s blood pressure and ordering urine tests. If the urine specimen shows an infection, the doctor will put the child on antibiotics for ten to 14 days. Urine samples will be retested during and after the course of antibiotics.
After your child has recovered from a urinary tract infection, your doctor may recommend X rays to determine if there is a physical abnormality. Sometimes, further X rays and direct examination of the urethra and bladder are necessary. To treat recurrent UTIs that are not due to obstruction, your doctor may prescribe the use of antibiotics constantly or on and off for months or years. To correct an obstruction, your doctor may perform surgery.
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