OBJECTIVE We report on the comparative 3-dimensional (3D) living female pelvic floor geometry in five women, comparing the volume, morphology, and integrity of the levator sling, and pelvic anatomic relationships among study subjects. METHODS Five women of varying ages, parity, continence, and prolapse status were studied. Two-dimensional (2D) imaging of the pelvic floor organs was performed ...

BACKGROUND Pelvic floor muscle training is the most commonly recommended physical therapy treatment for women with stress leakage of urine. It is also used in the treatment of women with mixed incontinence, and less commonly for urge incontinence. Adjuncts, such as biofeedback or electrical stimulation, are also commonly used with pelvic floor muscle training. The content of pelvic floor muscle...

OBJECTIVE There is preliminary evidence linking long-term participation in high-impact exercise with poor performance in labor and increased incidence of stress urinary incontinence, which may be due to altered pelvic floor function. Recent work has shown that HIFIT (high-impact, frequent intense training) athletes have an increased cross-sectional area of the levator ani muscle group as visual...

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. Recent trials evaluated the effect of different programs on prevention/treatment of urinary incontinence immediately after delivery and in treatment of persistent incontinence. RECENT FINDINGS Only three systematic reviews, six t...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used in the diagnostic evaluation of the pelvic floor dysfunctions. MRI can contribute to generate 3D solids of pelvic floor muscles through manual segmentation. The aim of this study is to calculate the area and its moment of inertia of 8 female pelvic floor muscles by using manual segmentation technique. Based on CAD software manual segmentation was u...

BACKGROUND Pelvic floor muscle training is the most commonly recommended physical therapy treatment for women with stress urinary incontinence. It is also sometimes recommended for mixed and, less commonly, urge urinary incontinence. The supervision and content of pelvic floor muscle training programmes are highly variable, and some programmes use additional strategies in an effort to increase ...

INTRODUCTION A minority of women with a subjective complaint of stress urinary incontinence will have negative urodynamic stress incontinence (USI) findings. AIM To test clinical and ultrasound measures as predictors of an unexpected absence of USI. We hypothesised that unexpectedly negative USI would be more common in young women with good pelvic floor and urethral function. METHODS A retr...