[Purpose] The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the effect of pelvic floor exercises on pelvic floor muscle strength could be detected via ultrasonography in patients with urinary incontinence. [Subjects and Methods] Of 282 incontinent patients, 116 participated in the study and were randomly divided into a pelvic floor muscle training (n=65) group or control group (n=51). The pelvic fl...

Constipation is a chronic disorder involving infrequent bowel movements, a sensation of obstruction, and incomplete evacuation. Many medical conditions can cause constipation, such as mechanical obstruction, metabolic conditions, myopathies, and neuropathies. Diagnostic testing for constipation can aid in distinguishing between 2 categories of disorders, slow-transit constipation and pelvic flo...

Outcomes assessed in the review Studies that assessed relevant postpartum and longer term outcomes were eligible for inclusion. Postpartum outcomes included pain, need for suturing, blood loss or transfusion, infection, wound breakdown, satisfaction with birth experience, incontinence and sexual concerns and/or dysfunction. Longer term outcomes included pelvic floor defects, incontinence and de...

Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome is a common disorder seen in men under the age of 50 and has a considerable negative impact on quality of life; it is a complex and difficult condition to treat, owing to its wide symptomatology. In order to effectively treat this condition, the UPOINT system was developed: it allows clinical profiling of a patient's symptoms into six broad categ...

Urinary incontinence (UI) is common and occurs in approximately 20% of the general female population, but it approaches 35% in women older than 60 years.1 The condition adversely affects quality of life (QoL), including social and sexual function.2 As American women age, the prevalence of pelvic floor disorders, such as UI, is also expected to increase.3 No less significant, sexual dysfunction ...

Human pelvic floor muscles have been shown to operate synergistically with a wide variety of muscles, which has been suggested to be an important contributor to continence and pelvic stability during functional tasks. However, the neural mechanism of pelvic floor muscle synergies remains unknown. Here, we test the hypothesis that activation in motor cortical regions associated with pelvic floor...

Background and Objective Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), now commonly used for reducing muscular spasms in other neuromuscular disorders, is now increasingly proposed also for treating pelvic floor disorders, including chronic pelvic pain syndromes, vaginismus, vulvodynia and vulvar vestibulitis syndrome. To provide up-to-date information on these advances we reviewed the literature about Bunt inj...

Prostate cancer is the rnost comûlon cancer in rnen in the UK. Treatrnent with radical prostatectorny rnay produce risk factors that corrrmonly include urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Post-prostatectorny incontinence can be classifìed as either stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence or post-micturition dribble. Evidence has shown that these ernbarrassing condition...

Objectives To determine the lifetime risk of undergoing pelvic floor surgery in a cohort of UK parous women and the re-operation rates for pelvic floor surgery, time intervals for repeat surgery and independent risk factors for undergoing primary and repeat pelvic floor surgery. Study design A register linkage study. Main outcome measures The primary outcome was lifetime risk of parous women ...