Treatment of inflammatory prostate pathology should be comprehensive.In addition to drug therapy, physiotherapy 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 relapses of the disease in the future.We will tell you how therapeutic exercises are performed for prostatitis, and the video at the end of the article will help a man do physical exercises correctly.
The benefits of physical activity for prostatitis
Chronic prostatitis is characterized by stagnant processes in the pelvic area.Due to deterioration of blood circulation, prerequisites 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.
Gymnastics for prostatitis will help improve blood supply to the male gland.As a result, the swelling of the organ will significantly decrease.Regular exercise increases muscle tone, which promotes blood flow and accelerates metabolic processes.
Important!A set of exercises for prostatitis is not the only treatment.Gymnastics is considered an addition to the main therapy.
Types of exercises and procedures for the prevention and treatment of prostatitis
A man can use the following physical exercises for prostatitis:
- physical therapy;
- yoga;
- Kegel exercises;
- Qigong exercises.
A good addition to any complex of physical therapy will be a perineal massage and contrasting water treatments for this area.The video at the end of the article will help you understand how to do exercises correctly for prostatitis.
Qigong
Exercises for prostatitis for men are found in the ancient Chinese gymnastics Qigong.They help improve blood circulation in the prostate and improve the functioning of organs in the pelvic area:
- Sitting in the lotus position, begin to roll on your pelvic bones from side to side.The back is straight, and the palms rest on the knees.The amplitude is gradually increased, but until it is possible to maintain balance.
- In a standing position, your hands are on your belt, and both legs are shoulder-width apart.The pose is as relaxed as possible.Perform rotational movements with your pelvis in different directions.Watch your breathing - it should be uniform.The back is straight.
- In a standing position, legs together, palms on the right knee.Smoothly 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 this, do the same exercise, but move your legs away from your body.
- Sit on the floor, back straight, feet resting on 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 there is no need to connect them together.As you exhale, lower your knees, but do not touch them to the floor.Repeat the exercise five times: while inhaling, raising your knees, exhaling, lowering.
Yoga
Yoga techniques also help to get rid of congestion in the pelvis and improve blood supply to the prostate:
- to unload the 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 arises in the area of the chest and abdominal cavity, which improves the outflow of blood to the heart), for this purpose it is useful to do dhauti, agnisara, nauli exercises;
- all asanas that involve 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 do Dr. Kegel exercises correctly at home, you need to try to hold back the flow of urine while urinating.This tightens the muscles in the prostate area.It is them that a man needs to train.Such training will improve blood circulation in the organ.
The essence of the method is as follows:
- Having remembered which muscles tense during urinary retention, a man should train them in a similar way outside the process of emptying the bladder.
- It is recommended to do approximately 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 is gradually increased to one hundred.
Another Kegel complex involves tensing and relaxing the muscles in the anal area.The advantage of such exercises is that they are easy to perform wherever you are (at work, in transport), since others cannot see anything.During the day, it is advisable to do up to three approaches of 20 compressions each.Training the muscles of the anus is useful for the prevention of prostatitis.
Important!A man will notice the first improvement after two weeks of regular Kegel exercises.
Therapeutic exercise
Physiotherapy for prostatitis necessarily includes a whole range of physical therapy exercises:
- From a standing position, perform slow squats, but not completely (knees are bent).During a squat, the knees are directed in different directions.
- Stand straight with your feet together.Without bending your back, lift each knee in turn as high as possible.
- Squat halfway and lean forward, then slowly straighten up and spread your arms to the sides.At the same time, one leg is moved to the side.For each leg, the exercise is repeated 9 times.
- While lying down or sitting, squeeze the ball between your knees.Hold in the compressed position for 7 seconds.Then relax your legs completely.
- Lying 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 tree”.From a lying position, raise your legs up and support your lower back with your hands.Stay in this position for a quarter of a minute.