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Concepts of Neuromuscular Rehabilitation and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training

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Pelvic Floor Re-education

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Muscle training involves the improvement in the tone of muscles or muscle groups, providing a readiness for action, and includes improvement in stiffness, strength, endurance, coordination, and function. Much of the evidence of the efficacy of muscle training and the principles involved has come from sports medicine literature.1,2 In addition to increasing the cross-sectional area and neuromuscular function, strength training has been shown to increase the connective tissue within and around the muscles,22 and, in theory, should improve the support of the pelvic organs afforded by the pelvic floor muscles. However, there are a number of differences between pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation and the training of muscles of sports women and men, which should be considered alongside the general principles described below.

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  1. The Culgaith Clinic, Penrith, UK

    Jo Laycock PhD, FCSP

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  1. Department of Gynaecology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

    Kaven Baessler MD (Consultant Gynaecologist) (Consultant Gynaecologist)

  2. Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kathryn L. Burgio PhD (Professor of Medicine, Associate Director) (Professor of Medicine, Associate Director)

  3. Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kathryn L. Burgio PhD (Professor of Medicine, Associate Director) (Professor of Medicine, Associate Director)

  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Peggy A. Norton MD (Professor Chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery) (Professor Chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery)

  5. Neue Frauenklinik, Kantonsspital Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

    Bernhard Schüssler MD, PhD (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

  6. Department of Urogynaecology, University of New South Wales St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Kate H. Moore MBBS, MD, FRCOG, FRANZCOG, CU (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  7. Portland Hospital, London, UK

    Stuart L. Stanton FRCS, FRCOG, FRANZCOG(Hon) (Professor of Pelvic Floor Reconstruction and Urogynaecology) (Professor of Pelvic Floor Reconstruction and Urogynaecology)

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Laycock, J. (2008). Concepts of Neuromuscular Rehabilitation and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training. In: Baessler, K., Burgio, K.L., Norton, P.A., Schüssler, B., Moore, K.H., Stanton, S.L. (eds) Pelvic Floor Re-education. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-505-9_18

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