Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to control the muscles of your pelvic floor.
Pelvic floor descent.
However if the descent is more pronounced or if there is even genital prolapse due to the protrusion of organs such as the bladder uterus or bowels the symptoms are very distinct and can have a great negative impact on the affected person s quality of life.
This is what physicians refer to as a weakness of the pelvic floor or pelvic floor insufficiency frequently accompanied by a general weakness of the connective tissue.
Associations include obesity menopause pregnancy and childbirth.
Some women may be more likely to developing pelvic floor dysfunction because of an inherited.
Widening of the pelvic floor hiatus and descent of pelvic floor below the pubococcygeal line with specific organ prolapse graded relative to the hiatus.
Pain female patients that visit our medical practice frequently complain about strong spasmodic pain in the intestine either during defecation or right before or in the course of the day.
A mild descent is usually hardly noticeable.
Symptoms include constipation straining to defecate having urine or stool leakage and experiencing a frequent need to pee.
Many women are affected by this kind of pelvic organ descent at some point in their lives.
Pelvic floor descent or descending perineal syndrome occurs when pelvic muscles lose tone resulting in excessive descent of the entire pelvis floor at rest or during evacuation.
Mechanistically the causes of pelvic floor dysfunction are two fold.
On dynamic imaging pelvic floor descent is defined as anorectal junction descent of more than 2 5 cm below the pcl.
Your pelvic floor is the group of muscles and ligaments in your pelvic region the pelvic floor acts like a.
Weakening of the female pelvic floor is a prevalent and debilitating disorder.