Do I need pelvic floor rehabilitation after childbirth?

Nowadays, many women will join a confinement center after giving birth, because in the confinement center there are not only confinement nannies who can help take care of the children, but also a lot of training to help the mothers recover their bodies, so that the mothers' bodies can return to their original state as soon as possible. Many women want to know whether they need to do pelvic floor rehabilitation after childbirth? Pelvic floor rehabilitation is very important for women. It is recommended that mothers must do postpartum rehabilitation.

1. Is postpartum pelvic floor rehabilitation necessary?

The treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction is divided into surgical treatment and non-surgical treatment. Non-surgical treatments mainly include pelvic floor muscle exercises, biofeedback therapy and electrical stimulation therapy, which can truly correct damaged muscles and nerves and have long-term therapeutic effects.

In developed countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, pelvic floor muscle assessment, biofeedback training and electrical stimulation therapy have been popularized. Pelvic floor muscle training is routinely performed on women 42 days after delivery, which greatly reduces the occurrence of pelvic floor dysfunction diseases such as pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. At the same time, it awakens the nerves and muscles of the pelvic floor, allowing the vagina to return to a tight state better, thereby improving the quality, pleasure and climax of sexual life.

Pelvic floor assessment and biofeedback training therapy is achieved through guided surface electromyography and guided urethral contraction pressure measurement. The feedback is displayed as electromyography or pressure curve. By affecting the display and sound prompts, patients can understand the functional status of their pelvic floor muscles more clearly and intuitively, and participate in the treatment. Combined with individualized electrical stimulation therapy, it can awaken and activate the pelvic floor muscles, accelerate the recovery of tension and elasticity of the vagina and pelvic floor muscles after childbirth, and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of pelvic floor disorders such as postpartum vaginal prolapse and relaxation, urinary incontinence, etc.

"Pelvic floor prevention and treatment" is not just pelvic floor assessment and biofeedback technology. Obese women with stress urinary incontinence can reduce their body weight by 5%-10%, and the number of urinary incontinence episodes will be reduced by more than 50%.

2. Reasons for postpartum pelvic floor repair

According to statistical analysis, half of women in my country suffer from varying degrees of pelvic floor dysfunction after giving birth. If you do not understand the reasons for postpartum pelvic floor repair and do not perform timely maintenance and repair, which will eventually lead to lesions, gynecological diseases will come knocking on your door.

The female pelvic floor is mainly composed of muscles and fascia. The pelvic floor is like a hammock, supporting the bladder, uterus, rectum and other pelvic organs at the perineum and anus, maintaining our urination, defecation and other physiological functions. However, during pregnancy and childbirth, the pelvic floor muscles of normal people are further squeezed and torn by the fetus, which inevitably causes varying degrees of damage to the pelvic floor muscles and leads to pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. In other words, the elasticity of the muscles has deteriorated and the elasticity is insufficient, so the organs in the pelvic cavity cannot be fixed in their normal positions, resulting in corresponding functional disorders such as urinary and fecal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

In mild cases, pelvic floor injury may manifest as vaginal relaxation, sexual dissatisfaction, or lower abdominal distension, frequent urination, constipation and other discomforts. In severe cases, urinary incontinence, uterine prolapse, bladder prolapse, rectal prolapse and other diseases may occur, causing unspeakable pain and even family disharmony. In addition, obesity, chronic cough, constipation, decreased estrogen, and urinary and reproductive infections are also high-risk factors for pelvic floor dysfunction.