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With
biofeedback therapy, specialists teach the
patient how to coordinate the use of the
abdominal muscles with the pelvic floor muscles.
Pelvic floor retraining improves symptoms in
approximately 70 percent of patients. Patients
learn to coordinate abdominal and pelvic floor
muscles during pelvic floor retraining. This
type of retraining is more extensive than Kegel's
exercises which are used as exercise for other
conditions such as urinary incontinence.
The actual effects of
pelvic muscle exercises (PME's) on the bladder and
pelvic muscles are not completely understood but there
may be a relationship between changes in various
measures of pelvic floor strength, such as anal or
rectal sphincter strength or increased urethral closure
pressure, and resistance, all of which prevent urine
leakage. These exercises have become known as pelvic
muscle exercises (PMEs) or pelvic floor muscle training
(PFMT.) Research starting in the 1980s and continuing in
the present has shown them to decrease urine leakage in
women and men with stress and urge UI and with
overactive bladder symptoms of urinary urgency and
frequency.
We offer Pelvic Floor
Retraining for individuals experiencing urinary or fecal
incontinence, for men who wish to improve circulation to
the prostate and relax the pelvic floor, and for women
who wish to strengthen the vaginal muscles after
childbirth.
We will be adding
more information about this treatment to our site. In
the meantime, to learn more please call or email us.
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