Strengthening your pelvic floor muscles can help urinary incontinence treat pelvic organ prolapse and make sex better too.
Pelvic floor electrical stimulation nhs.
The periform has been designed to provide good muscle contact.
Neuromuscular electrical stimulation to increase awareness and strength of pelvic floor muscles acupuncture to reduce pain or increase relaxation of a muscle provision of equipment pelvic belts elbow crutches wrist splints.
Electrical stimulation is commonly used and recommended for many conditions including improving the strength of your pelvic floor muscles if they are very weak or deconditioned helping to locate identify and isolate the pelvic floor muscles to help you learn how to do a pelvic floor muscle contraction correctly.
The vaginal sensor needs to lie as closely as possible to your pelvic floor muscle group.
Women who require electrical stimulation to activate their pelvic floor muscles use small home units.
An advanced course for health professionals working in pelvic health.
Other forms of treatment for incontinence include pelvic floor exercises vaginal cones bladder.
You may find electrical stimulation difficult or unpleasant but it may be beneficial if you re unable to complete pelvic floor muscle contractions without it.
Recommended electrical stimulation at the same time as another treatment.
What are the alternatives.
In this video we look at some electrical stimulation devices for the pelvic floor.
An electrical current runs through the probe which helps strengthen your pelvic floor muscles while you exercise them.
Electrical stimulation is offered in many physiotherapy and gynaecology departments and continence services in the nhs.
These are for both internal and external electrical stimulation to help w.
Intravaginal pelvic floor electrostimulation devices are known for their low side effect profile faiena et al 2015 and are considerably less invasive than surgical treatments.
In a 2013 study more than 200 women were treated with pelvic floor muscle stimulation to improve stress urinary incontinence.
Everyone can benefit from doing pelvic floor exercises.
There are many different types of units and vaginal sensors available.