pelvic floor

collocation in English

meanings of pelvicand floor

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pelvic
adjective
uk /ˈpel.vɪk/ us /ˈpel.vɪk/
relating to ...
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floor
noun
uk /flɔːr/ us /flɔːr/
the flat surface of a room on which ...
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Examples of pelvic floor

pelvic floor
Physiotherapy consisted of four or five pelvicfloor exercises each hour together with interrupted micturition.
Pelvicfloor treatment may result in subjective improvement in 60% to 70% of the women with moderate stress incontinence.
Pelvicfloor exercises were first described in 1948.
Stress incontinence occurs because of incompetence of urethral sphincters, and is associated with weakness of periurethral structures, including pelvicfloor muscles.
Total hysterectomy will be an extension of the subtotal approach but involves further distal dissection of vascular plexus, bladder base and pelvicfloor.
The causes are generally related t o pelvicfloor weakness (multiparity, hypoestrogenism, obesity) or previous pelvic surgery (gynecological, prostatic resection).
Programmes are generally noninvasive and involve teaching exercises to strengthen the pelvicfloor muscles, which may be combined with reinforcement techniques.
This can be used as an additional treatment to pelvicfloor exercises.
The role of pelvicfloor exercises and electrical stimulation therapy after stroke is unknown.
Incontinence was associated with obesity, with poor ability to contract pelvicfloor muscles and with previous gynaecological operations, excluding hysterectomy.
Programmes are generally noninvasive and involve learning exercises to strengthen pelvicfloor muscles.
Surgery may be recommended when other management techniques such as pelvicfloor muscle training have failed or are unsuitable.
The pelvicfloor closes the inferior aspect of the abdominal cavity.
The most effective conservative therapy is pelvicfloor exercises.
The age-related deterioration in pelvicfloor functions has a multifactorial origin (physiological and pathological).
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