NIH R01 · 2024
Development of Analysis Tools to Enhance Magnetomyographic Assessment of Pelvic Floor Muscles
Project Summary/Abstract During pregnancy and delivery women experience pelvic soft tissue injury. This injury is associated with the development of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) including pelvic organ prolapse, urinary, and fecal incontinence. One of the biggest barriers to preventing birth injury and the subsequent sequelae of PFDs is our lack of understanding of when and how injury occurs. Simulation models suggest that term delivery requires stretch to the maternal pelvic floor musculature to a degree greater than that which skeletal muscle can normally undergo without sustaining injury. Thus, with term vaginal birth, near universal injury would be expected. Previous studies…
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