Hi there,
I’m delighted you stopped by. I offer you a warm welcome
to the Kegelmaster Europe website. My name is Abigail O’Donovan. I’m
a 45 year old mother of two and the founder of Kegelmaster Europe.
I’d love to share with you my own experience of the Kegelmaster™ and
how this website came to be:
In July 2002 I bought a Kegelmaster™ for myself as I had suffered
with a slight problem of stress urinary incontinence for 17 years,
and I was now starting to get a bit worried. Like many women
I’d minimized it for a long time saying “It’s not
that bad”, but I couldn’t deny that it wasn’t getting
any better. In fact it was getting worse despite religiously
doing what I believed were Kegel exercises for years.
Now I know that Dr Kegel never intended the exercises to be performed
without resistance. For all those years I never knew that I,
like so many women had been totally mis-informed about Kegel exercises.
At first I was hugely skeptical about the Kegelmaster™. I’d
read all about it but it seemed too logical, too simple, there must
be a catch. I was to find out soon enough that there was no catch.
I’d lived with this condition for so long I just couldn’t
dare or allow myself to believe that all the amazing things I’d
read about what the Kegelmaster™ had done for thousands of women
it could do for me too.
I think my initial skepticism was due to the fact that I’d been
doing so-called Kegel exercises for so many years with such little
result I couldn’t really believe that using resistance to squeeze
the muscles against could make that big a difference. How wrong
I was. Within 3 weeks the problem I’d had for 17 years
was gone! Unbelievable, but true.
I wouldn’t say that I’m ‘cured’ of stress
urinary incontinence because now I know that it’s simply caused
by the pelvic floor muscle being weakened. There is so much unused
muscle in the pelvic floor that stress urinary incontinence is one
of the easiest conditions to alleviate with the Kegelmaster™. I
use my Kegelmaster™ twice a week now to keep this muscle in tip-top
condition. In giving myself that 5-6 minutes a couple of times
a week I never even think about stress urinary incontinence or pelvic
floor problems being an issue in my life today.
Shortly after the elation I first felt when I could once again sneeze and
nothing happened my initial euphoria turned to anger. How
could I and so many women be fooled into believing we could squeeze
our pelvic floor muscles against nothing and build them enough to
stop and prevent stress urinary incontinence and a whole host of
pelvic floor disorders? I regard myself as quite an intelligent
woman, yet like so many others I fell for it!
I’d suffered for years because I trusted the advice I was given
by men and women who should have known better; medical professionals
who taught me in ante-natal and post-natal classes how to do Kegel
exercises incorrectly. Not only squeezing against nothing but
pulling in abdominals as well which I now know does more harm than
good.
I trusted the advice of ‘experts’ writing in women’s
magazines, making the occasional appearance on television who assured
their audience, and still do, that squeezing against nothing would
somehow miraculously repair and rehabilitate their pelvic muscle satisfactorily. I’ve
now come to believe that this is the greatest insult to any thinking
woman’s intelligence.
Then came the day I asked myself “If I could use my experience
constructively, and the knowledge I’ve gained since using the
Kegelmaster™ what would that look like? What would I do?” I
found out that hundreds of thousands of women like me had also had
their lives changed by the discovery of this simple device. I
made a decision to do what I could to correct the mis-information about
Kegel exercises. I also vowed to share with as many women as I possibly
could the truth about the Kegelmaster™, that the Kegelmaster™ really
works, and to make it as widely available as possible to women everywhere.
I then went to visit the manufacturer in the U.S. I was extremely
impressed with the ISO 9002 plant which manufactures the Kegelmaster™. Ven-Tel
Plastics Corporation is one of the largest plants for manufacturing
medical devices in the U.S. On my return to Europe I set up
Kegelmaster Europe, to make the Kegelmaster easily available to as many women as I could. I was not content to be a part of a sad statistic, I'm sure you're not either!
I feel very grateful for having found the Kegelmaster™ when
I did. I know my life is very different today because of it. I
still shudder when I think of how I too could have become another surgical
statistic. At times I still feel angry when I hear women tell
me of the damage done to them by useless and ineffective medical and
surgical interventions. However, this just makes me more determined
than ever to keep spreading the word - you haven’t been told
the truth. There is a safe, effective, non-invasive, inexpensive alternative
to what you may have been brainwashed into thinking up to now.
Through speaking at many health shows and to different women's groups over the past couple of years I have become even more aware of just what a problem weakened pelvic floor muscles can be for women, I have also become increasingly aware of just how ridiculous it is to continue to instruct women to squeeze and hold against nothing when that acheives so little.
In the past year since being told by a couple of medical ‘experts’ that
Dr Kegel “only did some research” I’ve carried out
some research of my own and discovered some amazing facts about Dr
Kegel and his practical work with large numbers of women. It
has been absolutely fascinating to say the least. I include those
findings on this site for the first time along with the links to their
sources where possible.
It has been wonderful to meet some doctors and medical professionals
from a number of disciplines who know how the Kegelmaster™ can
greatly benefit women and who recommend it to their patients.
I say shame on those who prefer to remain ignorant of the truth about
Dr Kegel and his work and are not willing to educate themselves as
to the facts while continuing to mis-inform women who still suffer. They
are merely ensuring the incontinence industry will have no shortage
of future customers while they pocket their consultancy fees and public
money and laugh all the way to the bank.
Take my advice from one who’s been there; don’t waste
time thinking about it while the problem gets worse – order your
Kegelmaster™ today. I’m confident that like me you
will soon agree that making your decision to go for it was one of the
best decisions of your life.
Please don't hesitate to ring me on +44 (0)7772 541 483 if I can be of any assistance to you or you have questions you would like to ask.
All best wishes,
Abigail O’Donovan
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