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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

2016
The pelvic floor is a tunnel or dome-shaped muscular sheath made up of striated muscle and is positioned to enclose and support the genitourinary and anorectal compartments. The pelvic floor forms the inferior boundary of the abdominopelvic cavity extending from the pubic symphysis anteriorly to the coccyx posteriorly and between the two pelvic side ...
P. Sivalingam, P. Sivalingam, Brij B. Agarwal   +2 more
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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Women

Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports, 2020
The purpose of this review is to give an overview of pelvic floor muscle (PFM) dysfunction in women including evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. The prevalence of PFM dysfunction is thought to be higher in women and may contribute to urinary, defecatory, and sexual dysfunction, as well as chronic pelvic pain.
Julie Hastings, Julie Hastings, Megan Machek   +2 more
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Neurogenic colorectal and pelvic floor dysfunction

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2009
Constipation and faecal incontinence are common symptoms among patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), myelomeningocoele (MMC), multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease (PD) and stroke. Faecal incontinence in SCI, MMC and MS is mainly due to abnormal rectosigmoid compliance and rectoanal reflexes, loss of rectoanal sensibility and loss of voluntary
Krogh, Klaus, Christensen, Peter
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Imaging pelvic floor dysfunction

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2009
Pelvic floor function and structure are complex, and imaging (integrated with an understanding of physiology) is central to guiding the clinician in managing patients with incontinence, constipation, difficult rectal evacuation and pelvic organ prolapse.
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Anorexia nervosa and pelvic floor dysfunction

International Urogynecology Journal and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, 2003
Pelvic floor dysfunction in women with eating disorders is an underexplored area. We present a case of pelvic floor dysfunction in a nulliparous woman with anorexia nervosa.
Eduardo Cortes, W. M. N. Reid, Kavita Singh   +2 more
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Pelvic Pain and Floor Dysfunction

2018
Chronic pelvic pain is defined as persistent pain perceived in structures related to the anatomic pelvis (lower abdomen below the umbilicus) of either women or men for greater than 6 months. The etiology may be related to gynecologic, urologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and neurologic causes.
Danielle Sarno, Farah Hameed
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Defecatory Dysfunction and the Pelvic Floor

Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports, 2017
Defecatory dysfunction is infrequently considered a gynaecological problem. However, obstructed defecation (OD) more commonly affects women than men and is associated with pelvic floor dysfunction. Therefore, we set out to write a review from a urogynaecologists’ prospective focusing on OD as it relates to the pelvic floor.
Sapna Dilgir, Ajay Rane
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Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

2010
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability of the pelvic floor to fulfil its supportive role to the pelvic organs and/or its inability to allow these organs to function normally. The dysfunction may be limited to a single organ, but more often involves more than one of the urinary, genital and anorectal organs to some degree.
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Readability of pelvic floor dysfunction questionnaires

Neurourology and Urodynamics, 2020
AbstractBackgroundThe National Institutes of Health and Center for Disease Control recommend the readability of self‐administered patient questionnaires to be written at or below a sixth to eight grade reading level. The aim of this study is to evaluate the readability of commonly used urinary incontinence (UI), pelvic organ prolapse (POP), overactive ...
Tyler Gaines, Rena D. Malik
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THE CLINICAL EVALUATION OF PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 1998
Although Baden concluded that "the pelvic exam is just the pelvic exam," the history and examination are tools of no less merit than the cystometrogram or scalpel for clinicians treating patients with symptomatic pelvic floor dysfunction. An effective history and physical examination provide the basis for effective management of the patient's symptoms.
Steven Swift, James P. Theofrastous
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