All the muscles in the body can turn weaker over time. On women the muscles from the pelvic floor can be affected by time and pregnancy and the baby delivery. As a consequence of all these natural processes, these changes may affect the urine control and sexual activity.
Ben Wa balls also known as Burmese, love or Geisha balls are a useful tool to exercise these muscles and make them stronger. Some of the aspects to be considered with the use of Ben Wa Balls are:
They will help you to improve the control over this private area. There are activities as coughing, laughing or some exercises that can cause unexpected leaks and this is more common than you may think, many women suffer from this uncomfortable problem so a good way to overcome it is doing Kegel excersises and joining them with the use of Ben Wa Balls.
The Kegel excersices are pretty basic, and can be done without any other special equipment; they consist on contracting and relaxing the muscles from the pelvic floor and the vagina. But even to include any other equipment is not a must, there are devises that may help you improve the control and effectiveness of the exercises between them are the Ben Wa Balls and other similar elements. In this case, the Ben Wa Balls are designed with different weights this will allow you to practice and adjust the heaviness according to the needs and strength from your body. There are also different materials and designs. You can find these balls made of special glass, metal, silicone, latex and other particular materials. You can also find them in a single form or joined to be extracted easily and have better control of their position inside the body. In this matter you can also find high tech Ben Wa Balls or different devises to join the Kegel exercises, as there are some small devices that use integrated sensors to detect and measure the strength of the pelvic floor and they guide the exercise through vibrations. They work following the signal, when it vibrates you have to contract, went it stops vibrating you have to relax the muscles.
Even the main purpose of the Kegel exercises is to improve the pelvic floor strength and avoid accidental urine leaking; this can also help you recover the pleasure that may have result affected by giving birth. A curious practice that can be done is to include Ben Wa Balls during penetration, alone or with a partner. If you are not sure how does it work, you can practice alone, how? Inserting them inside you and using a vibrator to simulate penetration, this will give you an idea if these can be included in and encounter with your couple or not. Please remember as most of these balls can come in small sizes, even similar to the size of a marble at first you may feel it will get lost. In this case two things may happen they will not remain inside because the pelvic floor is too weak or they may stay up. In case they stay up, you just have to relax or jump a couple of times and they will come out.
They are not only used for therapy purposes, they can be included to spice up the sex life even when you are alone, the simple fact of getting them in, and keeping them there can be extremely stimulating. You can use them as a previous preparation or to heat up before you get together with your partner.
There are some recommendations to be followed; even these balls are introduced pretty similar to a tampon, you can use water based lubricant to get them in easier; when you are deciding what balls to buy, remember they have to be manufactured with materials recommended by doctors and they have to be friendly with your vagina. You have to keep its Ph balanced. You have to remember too, that the bigger is the ball the easier will be to do the exercises at the beginning and as long as you improve you can reduce the size and increase the weight.
When can you use these balls? In every moment you desire to improve the strength of your pelvic floor specifically when you are planning to get pregnant, after the delivery but with the specialist advice; when you are close to menopause to avoid accidental leaking; when you do specific efforts like sports and singing; when you have a little extra weight or have constipation; after bladder surgery and when there is sexual dysfunction.
When don’t you have to use these Balls? During pregnancy, and the first forty days after delivery; during the first three months after bladder surgery; when you have your menstruation or when you have a vaginal infection.
How long can you use these balls? You can start using them for about five minutes every day or alternating one day yes and the other not. When you get used to it you can use it for longer periods, but remember before using them outside home you must employ it a couple of times to know how your body will react, how will you feel with them. Definitely you don’t want to live an embarrassing experience in public.
Remember any exercise you want to include after any important event in your body, as surgery or giving birth should be consulted with a specialist. Any devise you get inside of you has to be clean and constructed with appropriate materials to avoid risks on your health.
Practicing Kegels constantly will allow you to improve many aspects on your life and sexual life as it will make your private parts to work better, to receive a better blood flow and to naturally lubricate better, there are even some experts that say that using this method you constantly you can improve in a few weeks and make your orgasms last longer. There is nothing to lose, follow the recommendations and try them out.