Hypothesis / aims of study The pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) has been indicated for treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction, with A level of evidence for the urinary incontinence (1). Recently, the indirect training of pelvic floor muscles (PFM) by transversus abdominis (TrA) muscle contraction has been suggested as a new method for strengthening PFM (2), and the hypopressive exercises reco...

Continuous Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block and Intraoperative Coeliac Plexus Block (CPB) for Post-Operative Analgesia Following Laparotomy: Two Case Reports Vasanth Rao Kadam, and George Kiroff Clinical Senior Lecturer, The University of Adelaide, Acute Care Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville, SA, 5011. Australia Division of Surgery, Hepatobiliary Unit,...

Core stability in general involves the muscular control required around the lumbar spine to maintain functional stability. Stability and movement are both critically dependent on the coordination of all the muscles surrounding the lumbar spine. This paper describes a yogic breathing technique (Uddiyana Bandha) that helps in enhancing core stability. In order to verify whether the practical resu...