Treatment of inflammatory pathology of the prostate must be comprehensive.In addition to drug therapy, physical therapy and nutritional therapy, it is recommended to do special exercises for prostatitis.Regular exercise will help you recover faster and is also a good preventive measure against future recurrences of the disease.We will tell you how therapeutic exercises for prostatitis are performed, and the video at the end of the article will help a man to do physical exercises correctly.
The benefits of physical activity for prostatitis
Chronic prostatitis is characterized by stagnant processes in the pelvic area.Due to the deterioration of blood circulation, conditions arise for the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms and swelling of the prostate.In addition, due to the deterioration of blood flow to the prostate, the organ is less well supplied with oxygen, which also contributes to malfunctions in its functioning.
Exercise for prostatitis will help improve blood supply to the male gland.As a result, the swelling of the organ will be significantly reduced.Regular exercise increases muscle tone, which promotes blood flow and speeds up metabolic processes.
Great!A set of exercises for prostatitis is not the only treatment.Exercise is considered as an addition to the main treatment.
Types of exercises and procedures for the prevention and treatment of prostatitis
A man can use the following physical exercises for prostatitis:
- Physiotherapy;
- yoga;
- Kegel exercises?
- Qigong exercises.
A good addition to any physical therapy complex will be a perineal massage and water contrast treatments for this area.The video at the end of the article will help you understand how to do exercises for prostatitis correctly.
Qigong
Exercises for prostatitis for men are found in the ancient Chinese exercise Qigong.They help improve blood circulation in the prostate and improve the functioning of the organs in the pelvic area:
- Sitting in the lotus position, begin to roll over your pelvic bones from side to side.The back is straight and the palms rest on the knees.The width is gradually increased, but until it is possible to maintain the balance.
- In a standing position, your hands are on your belt and both feet are shoulder-width apart.The posture is as relaxed as possible.Perform rotational movements with your pelvis in different directions.Pay attention to your breathing - it must be even.The back is straight.
- Standing, feet together, palms on right knee.Gently lift your right leg as you inhale.Stay in the position with your leg raised for as long as possible.As you exhale, gradually lower your leg.Repeat the same steps with your left leg.After that, do the same exercise, but move your legs away from your body.
- Sit on the floor, back straight, feet touching each other.Bend your knees so that your heels touch your groin.As you inhale, lift your knees up (like the flapping of a bird's wings).But we don't need to connect them together.As you exhale, lower your knees, but do not let them touch the floor.Repeat the exercise five times: while inhaling, raise your knees, exhale, lower.
Yoga
Yoga techniques also help to relieve congestion in the pelvis and improve blood supply to the prostate:
- to unload venous plexuses, it is useful to do inverted asanas (sirshasana, viparitakarani mudra, halasana).
- improve the outflow of venous blood from the small pelvis by moving the abdominal muscles (during this, negative pressure occurs in the area of the chest and abdominal cavity, which improves blood outflow to the heart), for this purpose it is useful to do dhauti, agnisara, nauli exercises.
- All asanas involving the hip joints activate the vascular and nervous system in the prostate area and also have a positive effect on the functioning of the organs in the pelvic area (baddha-konasana, sukshma-vyayama, etc.).
Kegel complex
To understand how to properly do the exercises of Dr.Kegel at home, you should try to hold back the flow of urine while urinating.This tightens the muscles in the prostate area.They are what a man should train.Such training will improve blood circulation in the organ.
The essence of the method is as follows:
- Having remembered which muscles are stretched during urinary retention, a man should train them in a similar way outside the process of emptying the bladder.
- It is recommended to do about 30 contractions for each approach.If at first a person feels discomfort when doing the exercises, then they are divided into five approaches of six compressions each.
- As the muscles become more trained, the frequency of compressions gradually increases to one hundred.
Another Kegel complex involves stretching and relaxing the muscles in the anal area.The advantage of such exercises is that they are easily performed wherever you are (at work, in transport), since others cannot see anything.During the day, it is recommended to do up to three approaches of 20 compressions each.Exercise of the muscles of the anus is useful in the prevention of prostatitis.
Great!A man will notice the first improvement after two weeks of regular Kegel exercises.
Therapeutic exercise
Physiotherapy for prostatitis necessarily includes a whole series of physical therapy exercises:
- From a standing position, perform a slow squat, but not completely (knees are bent).During a squat, the knees point in different directions.
- Stand straight with your feet together.Without arching your back, raise each knee in turn as high as possible.
- Squat to the waist and lean forward, then slowly straighten and extend your arms to the sides.At the same time, one leg moves to the side.For each leg, the exercise is repeated 9 times.
- When lying down or sitting, press the ball between your knees.Stay in the compressed position for 7 seconds.Then relax your legs completely.
- Lie on your back, do the "bicycle" exercise - these are rotational movements with your legs bent at the knees.
It is also useful to make a "birch".From a lying position, lift your legs up and support your lower back with your hands.Stay in this position for a quarter of a minute.