Treatment of inflammatory prostate pathology should be comprehensive.In addition to drug therapy, physiotherapy and nutritional therapy, it is recommended to perform special exercises for prostatitis.Regular exercise will help you recover faster and is also a good preventative measure against relapses of the disease in the future.We will tell you how therapeutic exercises for prostatitis are carried out, 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 region.Due to the deterioration of blood circulation, prerequisites arise for the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms and swelling of the prostate gland.Furthermore, due to the deterioration of blood flow to the prostate, the organ receives less oxygen, which also contributes to dysfunctions in its functioning.
Gymnastics for prostatitis will help improve the 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 speeds up 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 preventing and treating prostatitis
A man can use the following physical exercises for prostatitis:
- physiotherapy;
- yoga;
- Kegel exercises;
- Qigong exercises.
A good addition to any physiotherapy complex 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
Prostatitis exercises for men are found in ancient Chinese gymnastics Qigong.They help improve blood circulation in the prostate and improve the functioning of organs in the pelvic region:
- Sitting in the lotus position, begin rolling on your pelvic bones from side to side.The back is straight and the palms rest on the knees.The amplitude gradually increases, 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 the pelvis in different directions.Watch your breathing - it should be even.The back is straight.
- Standing, legs together, palms on the right knee.Gently lift your right leg while inhaling.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 the left leg.After that, do the same exercise, but move your legs away from your body.
- Sit on the floor, with your back straight and your feet resting on each other.Bend your knees so that your heels touch your groin.As you inhale, lift your knees (like the flapping of a bird's wings).But there is no need to connect them.As you exhale, lower your knees, but do not touch them to the floor.Repeat the exercise five times: inhaling, raising your knees, exhaling, lowering.
Yoga
Yoga techniques also help eliminate pelvic congestion 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 appears in the chest and abdominal cavity, which improves the outflow of blood to the heart), for this it is useful to do dhauti, agnisara, nauli exercises;
- all asanas involving the hip joints activate the vascular and nervous system in the prostate region, and also have a positive effect on the functioning of the organs in the pelvic region (baddha-konasana, sukshma-vyayama, etc.).
Kegel complex
To understand how to do Dr. Kegel exercises correctly at home, you need to try to contain the flow of urine when urinating.This tightens the muscles in the prostate region.They are the ones 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 the person feels discomfort when doing the exercises, 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 tensing and relaxing the muscles in the anal region.The advantage of these exercises is that they are easy to do wherever you are (at work, in transport), as other people 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 preventing 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 physiotherapy exercises:
- While standing, do slow squats, but not completely (knees bent).During a squat, the knees are directed in different directions.
- Stand with your feet together.Without bending your back, raise each knee 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 or sitting, squeeze the ball between your knees.Stay in the compressed position for 7 seconds.Then completely relax your legs.
- 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”.In a lying position, raise your legs and support your lower back with your hands.Stay in this position for a quarter of a minute.