Teaching Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises to Women in a Primary Care Setting: Participants’ Adherence and Acceptance
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Pelvic floor (PF) dysfunction is a source of morbidity and negatively affects one’s quality of life [1]. Dysfunction is often associated with muscular weakness and the failure of supporting connective tissue structures, leading in particular to urinary and faecal incontinence, prolapse of the pelvic structures, defecation problems, and sexual difficulties [2,3]. Facing such complaints, many women end up suffering in silence due to the scarcity of preventive and therapeutic strategies directed towards the problem.
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