Fortis ad: Susan

I'm a pelvic floor physiotherapist. I specialise in post-surgical recovery. And my own husband leaked for nineteen months before I figured out what was missing from my own treatment approach. My name is Susan. I'm 61. I run a small physiotherapy practice in Melbourne. My husband Robert is 66. We've been married for 30 years. When Robert had his prostatectomy, I designed his rehabilitation programme myself. I didn't hand him a generic sheet and say "squeeze three times a day." I gave him what I give my private patients — a structured, progressive programme with correct activation cues, breathing coordination, slow-twitch and fast-twitch protocols, and weekly progressions. I assessed his baseline. I checked his form weekly. I adjusted his programme monthly. For the first three months, he improved. Five pads down to three. Getting up three times a night instead of five. Standard improvement curve. Consistent with what I see in my practice. Then it stopped. Month four. Three pads. Month five. Three pads. Month six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Three pads. I tried everything in my clinical toolkit. Biofeedback cueing. Different contraction tempos. Endurance holds. Quick flicks. Functional integration — contracting before coughing, before standing, before lifting. Nothing broke the plateau. I was frustrated as a clinician. I was heartbroken as a wife. Because I could see what the leaks were doing to Robert beyond the pelvic floor. He was withdrawing. From me. From our children. From our life together. He stopped going to our friends' dinner parties. Stopped coming to the grandkids' swimming carnivals. Moved to the spare room because he was ashamed of the pads at night. Stopped reaching for my hand. Stopped being close. I'm a pelvic floor physiotherapist and I couldn't fix my own husband. I treat this condition every day. I charge people $180 a session to help them recover. And the man sleeping in my spare room was proof that my methods had a ceiling I couldn't break through. That's a hard thing to sit with professionally. And an even harder thing to sit with at 2 AM when you can hear him getting up through the wall for the third time. At month fourteen, I did something I should have done earlier. I went back to the research. Not the textbooks I trained from. The newer literature. The studies I hadn't kept up with because I thought I already knew this area well enough. I didn't. Ojukwu et al., 2022. EMG study comparing pelvic floor activation across different exercise modalities. The finding that stopped me: adductor contraction against resistance produced significantly higher pelvic floor activation than isolated Kegel contraction. The adductors. The inner thighs. Directly connected to the pelvic floor through shared anatomy. Part of the same functional unit. I sat in my office staring at the data and thought: I've been training one component of a multi-component system. For every patient. For nineteen years. The isolated approach works to a point. That point is the plateau. The ceiling I couldn't break through for Robert — and probably haven't broken through for dozens of patients who stopped coming back and I assumed were fine. They probably weren't fine. They probably plateaued and gave up and accepted pads as permanent. And I never knew because I never followed up far enough. That realisation was professionally humbling in a way I'm still processing. I found the Fortis Control Trainer that week. A simple device you place between the knees and squeeze against resistance. When you squeeze, the adductors and pelvic floor co-activate. Both components. Together. Every rep. As a physiotherapist, I understood immediately why this would break the plateau. The adductors provide the resistance and the co-contraction pathway that isolated Kegels can't achieve. The system trains as a unit instead of one part training alone. $79. No insertion. No electrodes. Ships in a plain box. 30-day guarantee. Simple printed instructions. I bought it and put it on the kitchen table that evening. "I owe you an apology," I said to Robert. "The programme I gave you was the best I knew how to design. But it was incomplete. There's a part of the system I wasn't training. This addresses it." He looked at me. My husband, who had watched me treat other men's incontinence for nineteen years, who had followed my expert programme to the letter for fourteen months with three pads to show for it. "You're telling me you missed something?" he said. "Yes. The research was there. I wasn't looking for it because I thought I already knew enough. I was wrong." He picked up the trainer. Squeezed it. Counter clicked. "That feels different," he said. "I can feel both parts working." "That's the point," I said. "Both parts. Together." He started the next morning. Week one. Still three pads. But the co-activation pattern was evident immediately. Both the adductors and the pelvic floor engaging as a unit. Clinically, this was a different stimulus than anything the isolated programme had provided. Week two. Two pads. First change in eleven months. I documented it the way I document patient progress. Tried to stay clinical. Failed. Cried in the shower. Week three. One pad. He coughed lifting something in the garage — hard, unexpected cough — and nothing leaked. He came inside and told me. Casually. Like it was nothing. Eleven months of plateau broken in three weeks. That's not nothing. Week four. One pad, barely needed. Week five. No pad. He slept through the night four times that week. Week six. He moved back to our bedroom. Brought his pillow. Got into bed next to me. Reached for my hand. "Thank you for figuring it out," he said. "Thank you for not giving up on me while I was figuring it out," I said. Three months now. No pads. Full nights. He's going to things again. Playing with the grandkids. We went out for dinner last Friday. He drove. Light trousers. Held my hand across the table. As a physiotherapist, I've now integrated adductor co-activation into my clinical protocols. Every post-prostatectomy patient. I've recommended the Fortis trainer to seven men so far. Five have reported back. All five saw improvement within three to six weeks. Two are completely pad-free. The standard isolated approach isn't wrong. It's incomplete. And the difference between incomplete and complete is the difference between three pads forever and no pads in six weeks. There are cheap copies on Amazon. As a clinician, I can tell you the resistance calibration matters. The Amazon versions are flimsy, uncalibrated, and most break quickly. The Fortis is the real device. Get it from tryfortis.store. If your husband's exercises have plateaued — or if you're a healthcare professional reading this and wondering why your patients stall — the answer is in the literature. The adductor-pelvic floor co-activation pathway. It's been published for over 30 years. It just hasn't made it into standard practice yet. The Fortis Control Trainer costs $79. One time. No subscriptions. 30-day guarantee. Keep it no matter what. Ships in a plain unmarked box. Simple printed instructions. Here's the link: https://tryfortis.store/products/fortis-control-trainer — Susan, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist P.S. — 19 years as a pelvic floor physio. Designed Robert's programme myself. 14 months. Plateaued at 3 pads. My own methods hit a ceiling. The adductor co-activation research has existed since 1994. Week 1 Fortis: Both components engaging together. Week 2: 2 pads. First change in 11 months. Week 3: 1 pad. Coughed without leaking. Week 5: None. Slept through. Week 6: Moved back to our bedroom. Held my hand. 7 patients recommended. 5 reported back. All improved. 2 pad-free. $79 once. 30-day guarantee. Plain box.