Both are on Dr. Meg's list. Both connect to your phone and show whether you are squeezing the right muscle. Here is how they differ, and how to choose.
Both are small pelvic floor trainers that connect to a phone app. The app shows whether you are squeezing the right muscles, which is the question that stalls most women. Guessing for weeks is how progress stalls.
Perifit turns the exercises into games you play by squeezing. Elvie keeps it plainer: short guided workouts and a strength score over time. Elvie is smaller. Elvie usually costs more.
If games are what will keep you doing it, Perifit. If you want the smaller device and the quieter app, Elvie. Dr. Meg lists both and does not push one over the other.
Perifit Care. A small device that connects to a phone app. The app shows whether you are squeezing the right muscles, and the exercises are games: lift to fly, relax to drop. It reads both the squeeze and the release.
Elvie Trainer. Like the Perifit. The app guides the exercises and tracks strength over time, in five-minute workouts. It is smaller and lighter, and it also tells you when you are pushing down instead of lifting.
Both makers say to wait until your provider clears you after birth. Dr. Meg's list puts them in the same place: for the exercises, once your provider clears you.
Before that, the work is breathing and gentle contractions, and it needs no device. See Pelvic Floor Exercises After Birth.
A trainer confirms the squeeze. It does not fix a tight pelvic floor. If kegels cause pain, or you have pelvic pain to begin with, stop and see a pelvic floor physical therapist. Some women need to learn to relax this muscle before they strengthen it.
Doing kegels for weeks with no change is the sign to look at tight versus weak, not to buy a second device. See Kegels Not Working After Baby?.
Pick Perifit if you know you need a reason to open the app every day. Pick Elvie if you want the smaller device and already have the habit. Either one beats guessing.
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Dr. Meg Cochran is a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in pelvic floor rehabilitation, a trained doula, and a mom of four. She treats women after birth through Where You Are Physical Therapy in Oxford, Mississippi.
This article is educational and is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a substitute for in-person care. Products are named as examples. Follow your own provider's instructions. For heavy bleeding, fever, severe pain, or thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, contact your healthcare provider or call 911.
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