Pelvic floor disorders after childbirth have distressing lifelong consequences for women,
requiring more than 300,000 women to have surgery annually. This represents …

Background Pelvic floor muscle training is recommended as first line treatment for urinary
incontinence in women based on three proposed theorized mechanisms:'Enhanced Pelvic …

Background and objective In the present study, we compared the effect of diabetic
pregnancy on the rectus abdominis muscle (RAM) in humans and rats. We hypothesized …

Background During the second stage of labor, the maternal pelvic floor muscles undergo
repetitive stretch loading as uterine contractions and strenuous maternal pushes combined …

背景妊娠和经阴道分娩是导致女性盆底功能障碍(PFD) 的重要因素, 表现为盆腔器官脱垂(POP),
压力性尿失禁(SUI) 以及性功能障碍; 产后盆底功能康复近年来成为研究热点 …

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is defined as involuntary urine leakage during physical
activities that increase the intra-abdominal pressure on the bladder. We studied bone …

Aims To evaluate the effects of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on the structural
characteristics of the rectus abdominis muscle (RAM) and its indirect effects on pregnancy …

Introduction and hypothesis The objective was to evaluate the morphological characteristics
of pelvic floor structure specific to de novo stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in primiparous …

Electromyography (EMG) is a well-established method to quantify the PFM activity. The
purpose of this study was to investigate the PFM of US and LAMs EMG variables separately …

Objectives To describe the methods for the in‐person musculoskeletal (MSK) assessment of
the RISE FOR HEALTH (RISE) study, a population‐based multicenter prospective cohort …