The pelvic floor muscles matter for the health and comfort of men just as much as for women. In men they control continence of urine and stool, support sexual function and stabilise the pelvis.
Their dysfunction most often surfaces after urological procedures, particularly prostatectomy: removing the prostate disturbs one of the two mechanisms that hold urine, and the whole task falls to the pelvic floor. That mechanism can be trained.
Training started before surgery and continued afterwards shortens the time it takes to regain full continence. If the operation has already happened, therapy still works - the results simply come more gradually.
The pelvic floor muscles matter for the health and comfort of women and men alike. Pelvic floor muscle therapy is used for:
- urinary incontinence
- incontinence of gas and stool
- recovery after surgery in the pelvis
- recovery after urological procedures
- overactive bladder syndrome
- pain in the pelvis
Therapy
- an individual treatment programme
- pelvic floor muscle exercises
- manual therapy
- behavioural therapy
- myofascial therapy
- massage
- re-learning everyday habits
- examination and therapy per rectum
- ultrasound assessment and biofeedback