More and more women attend physical therapy to treat pelvic floor problems.

-the pathology of the pelvic floor covers a series of anatomical and functional alterations that directly affect women. In this sense, increasingly is more developed treatment of this type of dysfunction and physical therapy has increased its recognition among experts

-the number of affected in Spain ranges between 25% and 40% and risk factors most important ” include obesity, chronic cough, the practice of some sports, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause

Madrid, March 2012.- within the framework of the international women’s day, the College professional physiotherapists of the community of Madrid (CPFCM) highlights the physiotherapy care for women and, in this sense, explains that this is the first choice to treat pelvic floor in women, which, in Spain, the number of affected ranges between 25% and 40%.

The pathology of the pelvic floor covers a series of anatomical and functional alterations that directly affect women. In this sense, increasingly treatment of this type of dysfunction is more developed and physical therapy has increased its recognition among experts.

According to noted physical therapist Ana Valiente – in an interview in the magazine ‘ 30 days ’ CPFCM-who works in the pelvic floor of the Hospital Universitario La Paz unit, patients who come to the physiotherapist for deficiencies in the pelvic floor do so mainly for urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and genital prolapse of isolated or combined form ”.

Also stresses that you among risk factors most important ” include obesity, chronic cough, the practice of some sports, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause. Therefore, the profile of these patients is of young girls, especially, sportsmen; women are coming in the post-partum, aged 30-40 years; and women in full menopause from the age of 50.

For its part, the professional school of the physiotherapists of the Madrid community recommends that patients that are constant in the follow-up of the treatment and prefer their healing process.

Pelvic floor problems affect the urogenital area and are associated with an alteration of the muscular system, fascial or nervous of the pelvic floor. Thus, physiotherapy treatments complement others, given its character non-invasive, so that therapies can be used in different phases of the approach of these dysfunctions, curative, palliative and preventive way.

According to Valiente continues, pelvic physical therapist resources include, among others, interventions as physiotherapist diagnosis, education and information to patients, the training of the muscles of the pelvic floor and bladder, electrostimulation, biofeedback, abdominales exercises and stimulation of the posterior tibial.

As you collect the collegiate institution, increasingly more women attend physical therapy to treat pelvic floor dysfunction. There is a double demand by young women, who often go on its own initiative, without divert them a specialist, or prescription of own specialists.

The treatment of pelvic floor should last, at least three months, although it is recommended to extend up to six months, and during this time, patients must undergo weekly therapy.

Physiotherapy in care for women is a specialty that is aimed at the comprehensive approach of all the possible physiological changes or own pathologies or marked impact on the female population and covers from promoting health, prevention, treatment, recovery or research.

Professional College of physiotherapists of the community of Madrid

The College professional physiotherapists of the community of Madrid is an organization that represents regional level to nearly 7,300 physiotherapists. Its objectives are the safeguard of the principles of ethics and ethical physical therapy, the defence and the promotion of health and the well-being of the citizens of the community of Madrid, in collaboration with the public authorities, as well as the promotion to level scientific, culturalEconomic and social of the collegiate.