Recognizing myofascial pelvic pain in the female patient with chronic pelvic pain. [PDF]
, 2012 Myofascial pelvic pain (MFPP) is a major component of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and often is not properly identified by health care providers. The hallmark diagnostic indicator of MFPP is myofascial trigger points in the pelvic floor musculature that ...
Katzman, Wendy B, Pastore, Elizabeth A
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Intervention effects maintenance: 6-month randomized controlled trial follow-up of standard and reflexive pelvic floor muscle training [PDF]
, 2022 BACKGROUND To date, the focus of pelvic floor muscle training for women suffering from stress urinary incontinence has been on voluntary contractions although involuntary pelvic floor muscle contractions are crucial to guarantee continence in high ...
Kuhn, Annette +4 more
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Urinary incontinence related to perineal muscle strength in the first trimester of pregnancy: cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2014 Objective To analyze pelvic floor muscle strength (PFMS), urinary continence and quality of life related to urinary incontinence (UI) of women in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Abrams P +33 more
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Vibrating vaginal balls to improve pelvic floor muscle performance in women after childbirth: a protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]
, 2015 AIM: This paper presents a feasibility trial protocol the purpose of which is to prepare for a future randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of vibrating vaginal pelvic floor training balls for postpartum pelvic floor muscle ...
Abrams +55 more
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RESTORATION OF THE PELVIC FLOOR. [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1908 The lesions resulting from labor involve, primarily, the pelvic floor and the sphincter apparatus to a varying degree, while, secondarily, there result certain displacements of the pelvic organs directly dependent on the weakened pelvic floor. The manifold operations for repair of these injuries of the pelvic floor have depended largely on the ...
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Physiotherapy for persistent postnatal stress urinary incontinence : a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2004 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of multimodal supervised physiotherapy programs with the absence of treatment among women with persistent postnatal stress urinary incontinence.
Bourbonnais, Daniel +5 more
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Vibrating vaginal balls to improve pelvic floor muscle performance in women after childbirth: Preliminary results (recruitment and survey) of a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Vibrating vaginal pelvic floor training balls are available in Austria and Germany to enhance women’s pelvic floor muscles and thus prevent urinary incontinence and other pelvic floor problems following childbirth.
Hanzal, E., McCourt, C., Oblasser, C.
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Restitution of the Pelvic Floor [PDF]
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1901 n ...
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Abnormal expression of p27kip1 protein in levator ani muscle of aging women with pelvic floor disorders – a relationship to the cellular differentiation and degeneration [PDF]
, 2001 BACKGROUND: Pelvic floor disorders affect almost 50% of aging women. An important role in the pelvic floor support belongs to the levator ani muscle. The p27/kip1 (p27) protein, multifunctional cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, shows changing expression
A Bukovsky +48 more
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Postnatal pelvic floor muscle training for preventing and treating urinary incontinence : where do we stand? [PDF]
, 2006 Purpose of review: Postnatal pelvic floor muscle training aims to rehabilitate the pelvic floor muscles. To be effective, a certain exercise dosage must be respected.
Dumoulin, Chantale
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