Your pelvic floor is the group of muscles and ligaments in your pelvic region the pelvic floor acts like a.
Pelvic floor descent.
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.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to control the muscles of your pelvic floor.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to correctly relax and coordinate your pelvic floor muscles to have a bowel movement.
Associations include obesity menopause pregnancy and childbirth.
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.
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.
Weakening of the female pelvic floor is a prevalent and debilitating disorder.
In pelvic floor relaxation active and passive supporting structures within the pelvic floor become weakened and ineffective with resultant excessive descent and widening of the entire pelvic floor during rest and or evacuation regardless of whether prolapse is present.
Many women are affected by this kind of pelvic organ descent at some point in their lives.
It results in abnormal descent of the urinary bladder the uterovaginal vault and the rectum resulting in urinary continence fecal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Symptoms include constipation straining to defecate having urine or stool leakage and experiencing a frequent need to pee.
On dynamic imaging pelvic floor descent is defined as anorectal junction descent of more than 2 5 cm below the pcl.
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.