Women who cannot contract their pelvic floor muscles- avulsion or denervation? The Pelvic Floor Neuroanatomy Study
The Pelvic Floor neuroanatomy study. Using a 3 dimensional ultrasound to examine the pelvic floor muscle anatomy and using concentric EMG- electromyography to examine the pelvic floor muscles for damage/injury due to childbirth.
Prof Kate Moore
30 participants
Feb 1, 2008
Observational
Conditions
Summary
This study is an observational study looking at women who cannot contract their pelvic floor muscles. This study applies to all women who have had a pregnancy and includes those delivered by caesarean section.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- women over 18 who cannot contract their pelvic floor muscles. Thses include all women who have had a pregnancy and a birth by caesarean section is not an exclusion.
Exclusion Criteria1
- previous surgery to the pelvis including prolapse repairs and incontinence surgery as well as hysterectomy.
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Interventions
The women attending our clinics are routinely assessed for plevic floor muscle strength when they are examined vaginally. if they cannot contract their pelvic floor muscles, then they are eligible for enrollment in the study subject to their consent. They will all have had at least one visit with a physiotherapist prior to testing to ensure they have been taught the correct method to contract their muscles. The study consists of a 3/D(dimensional) ultrasound of pelvic floor muscles and an EMG (electromyography) of pelvic floor muscles .The women will undergo one ultrasound and one EMG study each over a 2 month period. each takes approximately 20 mins. This take place from when the participant is recruited and is not specific to time after childbirth. Many women present many years after childbirth.
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ACTRN12608000633381