What are the causes of pelvic floor muscle damage? How to scientifically recover from postpartum pelvic floor muscle damage?

Damage to the pelvic floor muscles can be really difficult to talk about.

I had accompanied my best friend to the hospital for pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation treatment before I had children, when I felt the many helplessness of the damaged pelvic floor muscle, such as the difficulty in controlling the leakage of urine, especially serious when coughing, sneezing or laughing, such as the embarrassment of going to the hospital in the face of doctors and nurses, suffering, but also unable to tell friends and relatives.

I had accompanied my best friend to the hospital for pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation treatment before I had children, when I felt the many helplessness of the damaged pelvic floor muscle, such as the difficulty in controlling the leakage of urine, especially serious when coughing, sneezing or laughing, such as the embarrassment of going to the hospital in the face of doctors and nurses, suffering, but also unable to tell friends and relatives.

It was only after that that I really took it seriously. I think that many women may be in the same mindset as I was before because they don't know enough, so they take a chance, but in fact, we should all seriously understand the issues related to "pelvic floor muscle damage".

I. What is "pelvic floor muscle damage"?

The pelvic floor muscle is a multi-layered muscle and fascial tissue that encloses the pelvic floor, which mainly supports the pelvic organs and ensures that they are in the correct position and maintain normal function [1]. In other words, it acts as a "net" to protect the urethra, bladder, vagina, uterus, and other organs together.

Pregnancy and childbirth in women are important factors in the development of pelvic floor dysfunctional disorders. After pregnancy, the uterus increases in size, which leads to a rise in abdominal pressure, and the pelvic floor muscles become gradually relaxed as a result of continuous compression by gravity; and later, during delivery, mothers need to facilitate the delivery of the baby through strong contractions of the birth canal, which often cause damage to their anal levator, perineal nerve, fascia and other local pelvic tissues, resulting in changes in the anatomical structure of the anterior vaginal wall and uterine body This can lead to postpartum pelvic floor muscle dysfunction [2].

So it is that pregnancy may cause damage to the pelvic floor muscles, and during delivery, it tends to increase the degree of damage to the pelvic floor muscles.

Damage to the pelvic floor muscle has clinical manifestations such as pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence and chronic pelvic pain, and may also lead to vaginal laxity, anterior and posterior vaginal wall bulge, constipation, etc., and conjugal life may be notably affected [3].

Therefore, if the pelvic floor muscle is damaged, after the body has recuperated for a period of time after childbirth, it is time to take care of pelvic floor muscle repair!

Second, how to restore the pelvic floor muscle after damage to the science?

At present, there are two common repair methods: one is based on rehabilitation training, through the exercise of pelvic floor muscle contraction ability, improve the patient's pelvic floor muscle function, play a preventive and therapeutic role in pelvic floor muscle dysfunction [4], generally using the Kegel exercise method - mothers may have heard of this way, performed while standing or lying flat The effect is produced by lifting the anus, i.e., repeatedly contracting the anus to induce contraction of the pelvic floor muscles.

The other is electrical stimulation combined with biofeedback therapy, which first improves the contraction of the patient's pelvic floor muscles through regular electrical stimulation, and then through biofeedback instruments, which receive signals such as pelvic floor muscle contractions and provide guidance on pelvic floor muscle contraction exercises to help damaged nerves and muscles recover [5]. It is this approach to treatment that is used in regular hospitals today, namely the use of pelvic floor muscle repair instruments.

This is also the case with home pelvic floor repair devices.

It can improve the nerve reflexes of pelvic floor muscles, sphincter muscles, and other muscles through low-frequency pulses, and release the paralysis of bladder muscles, which is conducive to improving the symptoms of urinary retention and enhancing the ability of patients to control urine, and at the same time, it can stimulate skin receptors, prompting the release of a small amount of acetylcholine and histamine, which can promote local blood circulation and help to reduce the edema of local muscles and tissues, thus improving the pelvic floor muscle contraction function [4].

Obviously, it meets the needs of more mothers. I went to a regular hospital and heard from my best friend who went to a rehabilitation facility for restorative treatment, and we all had such and such concerns when we underwent the treatment, and then we all preferred to choose a home pelvic floor muscle repair device.

The reason is that first of all, compared to hospitals or institutions, the convenience of home models speaks for itself. For most mothers, after a period of rest and recuperation, they will rejoin the workplace, and we have to work and raise children at the same time, so we really don't have much time to run to the hospital. The pelvic floor muscle repair machine can be used at home, and we can choose to do it during the time when our children are sleeping, so that we can treat and take care of our children at the same time. You don't have to spend time making doctor's appointments, and you don't have to go to the hospital as often, so that's enough for the mom community.

Secondly, its privacy also brings more comfort.

Many tertiary hospitals have numerous patients every day, and the obstetrics and gynecology departments are overcrowded, so the privacy of the consultation really needs to be improved. The home pelvic floor muscle repair instrument allows us to repair and treat without leaving home, we do not have to worry about the embarrassment of facing the doctor's examination, nor do we have to worry about the wretchedness of having no privacy in front of other patients. I personally feel that using it is more comfortable psychologically first, good mood, the body will also get better faster.

Thirdly, it is really more cost-effective as well.

The cost of pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation treatment in our local tertiary hospital, a course of treatment is probably several thousand dollars, outside the rehabilitation institution is more than ten thousand dollars, home pelvic floor muscle repair instrument converted down to much cheaper, repair principle and the hospital is the same, more cost-effective.

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