Las Colinas ObGyn

Las Colinas ObGyn offers biofeedback and physical therapy for rehabilitation of the pelvic muscle. Biofeedback has helped many people combat the ill effects from involuntary muscle tension and related pain. The patients goal is to learn to control involuntary functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, skin temperature, and muscle tens... ion. The therapist teaches the patient how to affect a particular function specific to a problem through mental or physical exercises (e.g. tense neck muscles). During the pelvic examination, we examine the strength and tone of the pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic floor muscles play an important role in continence and maintaining your pelvic organs in the normal position. During times of increased stress, like coughing or exercise, these muscles contract around the urethra and prevent urinary leakage. If these muscles, or the nerves supplying the muscles, are damaged or weakened, the mechanism maintaining continence fails. Many women can learn to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles. Just like lifting weights for upper and lower body muscles, repetitive exercise can increase the ability of pelvic floor muscle to function properly. For many women, properly performed kegel exercises can cure or improve urinary incontinence and mild symptoms of vaginal prolapse. This often decreases the need for surgery. Post surgical candidates also often decrease the chances of subsequent failure and repeat surgery. Pelvic muscle rehabilitation for patients with pelvic floor disorders combines the most effective non-surgical treatment modalities in an effort to restore normal tone and function to the muscles of the pelvic floor. Pelvic muscle rehabilitation may provide an additional element of reflex bladder inhibility. Pelvic muscle rehabilitation is based on all behaviors, including physiologic events that are a function of interacting sets of factors: Pelvic muscle rehabilitation treatment aims to improve continence by altering antecedent or consequent stimuli, or both. Pelvic ...Read More