PMID: 8588447Jan 1, 1996Paper

Pelvic floor conditioning with vaginal weights--post partum and in urinary incontinence

Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie
W FischerA Linde

Abstract

To check on the efficacy of cone training 71 women were thoroughly examined six to eight weeks after spontaneous deliveries at various risk levels. Their pelvic floor was examined by palpation, inspection, manometry and gravimetry. All of them were re-examined in the same way after four to six weeks of daily cone training. Thirty women with moderate genuine stress incontinence (16) or stress/urge incontinence (14) were evaluated by the same procedure, independent of gestation. A control group included 20 women prior to and after conventional puerperal pelvic floor exercises and eight nulliparae of the same age prior to and after the same cone training, using a five-cone set. The number of puerperae not capable of voluntary pelvic floor contraction declined from 34 % before to 6 % after training. Optimum initial and posttraining responses, on the other hand, were exhibited by all nulliparae. Differences in childbirth risk for pelvic floor damage played a less important role than childbirth proper. Training related differences were of minor importance, as well, between cone and conventional exercise groups. Notwithstanding different initial values, all puerperae increased their contractility to 10 mm Hg on average, while the incr...Continue Reading

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