Pelvic Floor
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Subject Areas on Research
- A comparison of perineometer to brink score for assessment of pelvic floor muscle strength.
- A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of pelvic floor therapies for urodynamic stress and mixed incontinence.
- A randomized trial of behavioral management for continence with older rural women.
- An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)/International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for reporting outcomes of surgical procedures for pelvic organ prolapse.
- An overview of the management of post-vasectomy pain syndrome.
- Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a new nurse-led continence service: a randomised controlled trial.
- Comparison of 2 transvaginal surgical approaches and perioperative behavioral therapy for apical vaginal prolapse: the OPTIMAL randomized trial.
- Contemporary management of postprostatectomy incontinence.
- Defining success after surgery for pelvic organ prolapse.
- Differential gene expression in pubococcygeus muscle from patients with pelvic organ prolapse.
- Does sexual function change after surgery for stress urinary incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse? A multicenter prospective study.
- Effects of examination technique modifications on pelvic organ prolapse quantification (POP-Q) results.
- Further validation of the short form versions of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ).
- How does site of pelvic organ prolapse repair affect overactive bladder symptoms?
- Imaging studies of the pelvic floor.
- Innervation of the female levator ani muscles.
- Levator ani abnormality 6 weeks after delivery persists at 6 months.
- Levator ani denervation and reinnervation 6 months after childbirth.
- Long-term efficacy of simple behavioral therapy for daytime wetting in children.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvic floor in the postpartum patient.
- Management of severe lower abdominal or inguinal pain in high-performance athletes. PAIN (Performing Athletes with Abdominal or Inguinal Neuromuscular Pain Study Group).
- Neuropathic injury to the levator ani occurs in 1 in 4 primiparous women.
- Nonsurgical management of pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Open sacrocolpopexy and vaginal apical repair: retrospective comparison of success and serious complications.
- Operations and pelvic muscle training in the management of apical support loss (OPTIMAL) trial: design and methods.
- Overt rectal prolapse following repair of stage IV vaginal vault prolapse.
- Pelvic floor symptoms improve similarly after pessary and behavioral treatment for stress incontinence.
- Pelvic muscle electromyography of levator ani and external anal sphincter in nulliparous women and women with pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Pelvic muscle rehabilitation in males following prostatectomy.
- Pelvic prolapse: diagnosing and treating cystoceles, rectoceles, and enteroceles.
- Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women.
- Psychometric evaluation of 2 comprehensive condition-specific quality of life instruments for women with pelvic floor disorders.
- Quantitative electromyographic analysis of levator ani and external anal sphincter muscles of nulliparous women.
- Questionnaires for women with pelvic floor disorders.
- Racial differences in pelvic floor muscle thickness in asymptomatic nulliparas as seen on magnetic resonance imaging-based three-dimensional color thickness mapping.
- Racial differences in pelvic morphology among asymptomatic nulliparous women as seen on three-dimensional magnetic resonance images.
- Rectal prolapse: an overview of clinical features, diagnosis, and patient-specific management strategies.
- Robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy: early postoperative outcomes after surgical reduction of enlarged genital hiatus.
- Sexual activity and vaginal topography in women with symptomatic pelvic floor disorders.
- Short forms of two condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires for women with pelvic floor disorders (PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7).
- Size of the urogenital hiatus in the levator ani muscles in normal women and women with pelvic organ prolapse.
- Skeletal muscle heavy-chain polypeptide 3 and myosin binding protein H in the pubococcygeus muscle in patients with and without pelvic organ prolapse.
- Symptom improvement in women after fecal incontinence treatments: a multicenter cohort study of the pelvic floor disorders network.
- Symptomatic and anatomic 1-year outcomes after robotic and abdominal sacrocolpopexy.
- The standardization of terminology for researchers in female pelvic floor disorders.
- Validation of telephone administration of 2 condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires.
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Keywords of People
- Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
- Weidner, Alison Catherine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Urogynecology