Now Anyone Can Kegel: One-Time Office Teaching of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises

Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
My-Linh T NguyenChristopher M Tarnay

Abstract

In women with pelvic floor disorders, we sought to determine time-to-teach (TTT) correct pelvic floor muscle (PFM) contraction, prevalence of inappropriate muscle contractions, and the association between TTT with PFM strength (PFMS). From August 2017 to April 2018, patients from 2 pelvic floor disorder clinics participated in a prospective study examining PFMS. Assessment of PFMS was performed to obtain TTT, inappropriate accessory muscle, and Modified Oxford Grading Scale scores for pelvic floor muscle contractions 1 to pelvic floor muscle contractions 2. Of 100 women, 77 were from low-resource setting and 23 from high-resource setting. Mean TTT overall was 64.1 seconds (±26.0; range, 9-160 seconds), and mean TTT between settings was not significant. Mean overall TTT was significantly less than 90 seconds. Seventy-one women (71%) demonstrated at least 1 inappropriate accessory muscle, and of those, up to 50% of patients contracting 2 accessory muscle groups with abdominal muscles most frequently contracted at baseline. Thirty-nine percent of patients had a PFM contraction of at least 3 at baseline compared with 82% of patients upon completion of teaching, with 60% of women with scores of 4 or 5. The mean difference overall be...Continue Reading

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