The Role of Biofeedback in Pelvic Floor Re-education

Physiotherapy for female stress urinary incontinence: Individual therapy at the outpatient clinic versus home‐based pelvic floor training: A 5‐year follow‐up study

“…It makes it easier for the therapist to teach isolated PFM contraction, facilitates goal setting and helps the patient to maintain good motivation. It also makes it possible to detect di¡erences in strength between the right and left sides of PFMs [Knight and Laycock, 1994]. VBs have been used in Finland since the early 1990s and, as with other authors, we found them to be acceptable to patients for training.…”

“…The purpose of pelvic £oor re-education is to increase the strength and functional activity of the pelvic £oor muscles (PFMs), which may reduce the problem of SUI [Knight and Laycock, 1994]. As conservative therapy seems to have no side-e¡ects, it should be considered as the ¢rst choice of treatment of SUI [Berghmans et al, 1998].…”

Standardized pelvic floor exercises improve stress urinary incontinence in women with intrinsic sphincter deficiency

“…Pelvic floor muscle training before surgery is recommended because it has no negative side effects nor risks for the patient. In general, pelvic floor muscle training aims to strengthen and to improve the functional activity of the pelvic floor muscles, which ameliorates the symptoms of SUI …”

“…In general, pelvic floor muscle training aims to strengthen and to improve the functional activity of the pelvic floor muscles, which ameliorates the symptoms of SUI. 10 ISD is commonly defined as a maximum urethral closure pressure (MUCP) of less than 20 cm H 2 O 9 although there is no universal definition. 11 McGuire has proven that patients who failed multiple procedures for stress urinary incontinence were more likely to have a MUCP of 20 cm H 2 O or less.…”

The effect of home biofeedback training on stress incontinence

“…Modern technology has allowed the development of a variety of vaginal and rectal probes sensitive to pressure or EMG activity (5). The devices can measure and collect the data of muscle exercises for later analysis, thus allowing less frequent clinic visits.…”