Strengthening your core

Before I had my second surgery for Crohn's I had more time to prepare for it and worked to strengthen my core. I continued to do this after surgery and do basic exercises at home to get me mobile again during recovery and ready for a higher intensity level of exercises.

The below exercises can all be done at home, I just used an exercise mat for added comfort and for some of the pelvic floor exercises in the me+ programme I did these on my bed to begin with as advised by my stoma nurse.

I checked with my stoma nurse and my surgeon at follow up appointments when I could begin exercising.

The below Convatec me+ recovery programme includes videos that take you through foundation phase, to progress phase to getting fitter phase. I still do some of these exercises now and will continue to do so to keep my core strong.

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