This Pelvic floor-focussed post deep dives into the challenges that change significantly as women age. Understanding these decade-by-decade transitions is key to maintaining lifelong pelvic floor health. 20’s: - This is the decade of peak pelvic floor muscle strength, but it is also marked by high-impact activities (like running or heavy lifting) and the onset of menstrual or endometriosis-related pelvic pain. - Focus on learning to relax the pelvic floor as well as strengthe

Authored by: Zuha Ajlan – Lead Data Collection and Research Specialist at Femmflo. Introduction Historically, women have been excluded from scientific research due to the cyclic variation in their hormones. It had been assumed that results obtained from men applied to women as well (Dresser, 1992; Wainer et al., 2020). This has led to a gross underrepresentation of women in research, delayed symptom recognition, diagnostics and even treatment. In fact, it was decades before w