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Pelvic Floor Re-education

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Pelvic Floor Re-education

Abstract

Potentially the greatest role for pelvic floor muscle re-education is to prevent insufficiency of this muscle group. Current therapy of pelvic floor dysfunction involves physiotherapy to recover some muscular function, or surgery to compensate and in some cases overcorrect anatomic defects. None of these treatments is able to restore the pelvic floor to its original structure and function. Training these muscle groups to increase muscular tone and control might enable the pelvic floor to withstand the pressures of abdominal strain or gravity. Prevention of pelvic floor insufficiency should therefore be a major goal of pelvic floor re-education.

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