Treatment of inflammatory prostate disease must be comprehensive.In addition to drug treatment, 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 region.Due to the deterioration of blood circulation, the prerequisites for the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms and swelling of the prostate gland appear.In addition, due to the deterioration of blood flow to the prostate, the organ is less well supplied with oxygen, which also contributes to dysfunctions 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 circulation and accelerates metabolic processes.
Important!A set of exercises for prostatitis is not the only treatment.Gymnastics is considered a complement 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:
- physiotherapy;
- yoga;
- Kegel exercises;
- Qigong exercises.
A good addition to any physical therapy 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 for prostatitis correctly.
Qigong
Exercises for prostatitis in men are found in the ancient Chinese gymnastics Qigong.They help to improve blood circulation in the prostate and improve the functioning of the organs in the pelvic region:
- Sitting in the lotus position, begin rolling your pelvic bones from side to side.The back is straight and the palms rest on the knees.The amplitude increases gradually, but until it is possible to maintain balance.
- While standing, 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 even.The back is straight.
- In a standing position, legs together, palms on the right knee.Gently lift your right leg as you inhale.Stay in the raised leg position 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 with your back straight and your feet on top of each other.Bend your knees so your heels touch your groin.As you inhale, raise your knees (like the flapping of a bird's wings).But it is not necessary to link them together.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 clear 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 time, negative pressure appears 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 of the prostate region and also have a positive effect on the functioning of the organs of the pelvic region (baddha-konasana, sukshma-vyayama, etc.).
Kegel complex
To understand how to do Dr. Kegel's exercises at home correctly, you need to try to restrain the flow of urine during urination.This tightens the muscles in the prostate area.These 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 are tense during urinary retention, a man should train them in the same way outside of the process of emptying the bladder.
- It is recommended to do about 30 contractions for each approach.If at first a person feels discomfort during the exercises, then it is divided into five sets of six compressions each.
- As the muscles train, 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 such exercises is that they are easy to do wherever you are (at work, in transport), since others cannot see anything.During the day, it is advisable to do up to three series 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 physiotherapy exercises:
- While standing, perform slow squats, but not completely (knees are bent).During a squat, the knees point 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 out 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.Hold 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”.While lying down, raise your legs and support your lower back with your hands.Stay in this position for a quarter of a minute.