Practice Lab allows you to visualize the levels of pressure on the top and bottom sensors of your Perifit Care in a straightforward manner.
How do the sensors work?
Your Perifit Care has two sensors:
the bottom sensor, represented by the green line in the Practice Lab and that reads your pelvic floor contractions
the top sensor, represented by the red line in the Practice Lab and that reads your intra-abdominal pressure
The objective in the Practice Lab is to try and make the green line go up, while keeping the red line at bay as much as possible, or at least at a level below the green line.
What should I use Practice Lab for?
You can use Practice Lab to:
Experiment with biofeedback, while watching dots moving or the 3D pelvis visualization.
Improve your contraction quality by visualizing your pelvic floor's contractions (bottom pebble-shaped sensor) and unwanted intra-abdominal pressure (upper pebble-shaped sensor)
Find your optimal training position, where your contractions are the best read.
Train with a program of your own or one recommended by a physiotherapist.
Self-assess your anticipatory reflexive contraction
Troubleshoot the Perifit Care sensors with your hand when you believe one of the sensors is not working correctly.
Training with your own program
On the internet or by discussing with your health practitioner, you can come up with an exercise that allows you to work on a specific aspect of your pelvic floor, without playing the games.
In their simplest form, those exercises come in the form of a number of repetitions x {squeeze time, relax time}
For example, an exercise to develop strength is the 5 x {5s squeeze, 10s relax}, which consists of 5 repetitions of:
a 5-second strong, deliberate contraction
a 10-second deep relaxation (i.e. letting the muscles go completely soft, and letting your mind go with it). It's important to always set the relaxation time as 2 times longer than the contraction time.