PFMR Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation exercises

Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation exercises (PFMR) are computer enhanced exercises that help to improve urinary symptoms such as urgency, frequency, and incontinence or leakage of urine.
There are three primary types of incontinence:
1. Stress urinary incontinence is leakage associated with coughing, laughing, or movement.
2. Urge incontinence is exhibited by someone who has an urge to urinate but can’t seem to make it to the bathroom quickly enough.
3. Overflow incontinence is involuntarily leakage a person is not even aware of.
4. There are other varieties of incontinence usually related to existing disease conditions.
Virtually all patients suffering from any of the above symptoms can be helped to improve their symptoms through our PFMR program. We have higher than a 92% success rate in treating more than 300 patients with incontinence.
PFMR will increase the functional bladder capacity, decrease urgency by decreasing inappropriate bladder contractions, and increase sphincter control. The pelvic muscles comprise a striated, skeletal muscle group, that is under voluntary control and is important in maintaining urinary and fecal continence as well as in providing support to the pelvic organs (bladder, rectum and, in women, the uterus).
The goal of PFMR is to isolate the pelvic floor muscle, specifically the levator ani. Many times, individuals have a difficult time identifying and isolating this muscle. Without sufficient information, many men and women may mistakenly bear down or exercise ineffectively. That is why our specially designed computer program and our nurse practitioner have been so effective in treating patients with incontinence.