Pelvic floor injury during vaginal birth is life-altering and preventable: what can we do about it?

JOL DeLancey, M Masteling, F Pipitone… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pelvic floor disorders after childbirth have distressing lifelong consequences for women,
requiring more than 300,000 women to have surgery annually. This represents …

Mechanisms for pelvic floor muscle training: Morphological changes and associations between changes in pelvic floor muscle variables and symptoms of female …

K Bø - Neurourology and Urodynamics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction Today there is Level 1, recommendation A for pelvic floor muscle
training (PFMT) to be effective in treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic …

Animal models, treatment options, and biomaterials for female stress urinary incontinence

X Tan, G Li, C Li, C Kong, H Li, S Wu - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In the quest to tackle stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the synthesis of cutting-edge
biomaterials and regenerative materials has emerged as a promising frontier. Briefly, animal …

Does a Kegel exercise program prior to resistance training reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence?

D Cross, MN Kirshbaum, L Wikander, JY Tan… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This comparative pre–post intervention study investigated the feasibility and benefits of
Kegel exercises amongst incontinent women, prior to commencing resistance training (RT) …

Physical Exercise and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training: A Vital Tool in Mitigating Pelvic Floor Dysfunction During Pregnancy and Postpartum

R Van Hauwaert, A Tomé, RPP de Almeida… - Global Innovations in …, 2025 - igi-global.com
Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) significantly impacts women's quality of life (QoL), affecting
social, professional, and mental well-being. Pregnancy and childbirth, particularly vaginal …

Impact of postpartum exercise on pelvic floor disorders and diastasis recti abdominis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

NF Beamish, MH Davenport, MU Ali… - British Journal of …, 2024 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To examine the effect of exercise during the first year postpartum on pelvic floor
disorders and diastasis recti abdominis. Design Systematic review with random effects meta …

Can you breathe yourself to a better pelvic floor? A systematic review

K Bø, P Driusso, CH Jorge - Neurourology and Urodynamics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Some authors suggest that breathing exercises should be recommended
instead of or in combination with pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) to prevent and treat …

Modified lumbo-pelvic exercise to alleviate mild stress urinary incontinence in middle-aged females

Y Wang, L Liu, Q Chen, K Gao, H Wang, N Xu… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Urinary incontinence is one of the common clinical problems of females passing middle age.
Traditional pelvic floor muscle training to alleviate urinary incontinence is too dull and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of short-term pelvic floor muscle training on the biomechanical parameters of the pelvic floor among patients with stress urinary incontinence: A …

D Rátonyi, E Koroknai, K Pákozdy, AG Sipos… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Our study aimed to improve the understanding of the biomechanical changes
occurring in the pelvic floor due to pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), which is responsible …

Intravaginal electrical stimulation for the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Chen, R Wang, Y Yu, K Zhao, J Li - Frontiers in Neurology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Intravaginal electrical stimulation (IVES) has been explored as a potential
treatment for pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), although its efficacy remains a subject of debate …