The bladder muscle should be relaxed and the muscles around the urethra the tube that urine passes through called the pelvic floor muscles should be tight.
Does urethra go through pelvic floor.
The pelvic floor plays a number of vital roles in women s everyday health and wellbeing.
The female urethra is a bit more straightforward as it has less distance to cover.
Before reaching the urethral opening urine passes through the urethral sphincter.
In women there are three passages.
Urethral prolapse also called urethrocele happens when the urethra pushes into the vaginal canal or sticks out of the urethral opening.
There are three layers of the female urethra muscular erectile and mucous.
It opens onto the perineum after passing through the sphincter muscle.
This is a muscular structure in the urethra.
The urethra vagina and anus.
The muscles of the pelvic floor normally wrap firmly around these passages.
It extends downward through the muscular area of the pelvic floor.
This leads to leaking urine with coughing sneezing exertion laughing and other activities which raise the.
Sui is a common problem affecting women which is caused by a weakness of the pelvic floor muscles which help keep the bladder closed the urethra the tube through which urine is passed or the ligaments that support the urethra.
It starts at the bladder and runs through the pelvic floor.
What does the pelvic floor do.