Overview
- Covers pelvic floor over activity in both men and women
- All chapters are written by experts in their fields
- The first of its kind dedicated to pelvic floor over activity
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This textbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the Overactive Pelvic Floor (OPF) that provides clinical tools for medical and mental health practitioners alike. Written by experts in the field, this text offers tools for recognition, assessment, treatment and interdisciplinary referral for patients with OPF and OPF related conditions. The text reviews the definition, etiology and pathophysiology of non-relaxing pelvic floor muscle tone as well as discusses sexual function and past sexual experience in relation to the pelvic floor. Specific pelvic floor dysfunctions associated with pelvic floor overactivity in both men and women are reviewed in detail. Individual chapters are devoted to female genital pain and vulvodynia, female bladder pain and interstitial cystitis, male chronic pelvic and genital pain, sexual dysfunction related to pelvic pain in both men and women, musculoskeletal aspects of pelvic floor overactivity, LUTS and voiding dysfunction, and anorectal disorders. Assessment of the pelvic floor is addressed in distinct chapters describing subjective and objective assessment tools. State of the art testing measures including electromyographic and video-urodynamic analysis, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging are introduced. The final chapters are devoted to medical, psychosocial, and physical therapy treatment interventions with an emphasis on interdisciplinary management
The Overactive Pelvic Floor serves physicians in the fields of urology, urogynecology and gastroenterology as well as psychotherapists, sex therapists and physical therapists.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anna Padoa, MD
Assaf Harofe Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Beer Yaakov, Israel
Talli Rosenbaum, Msc
Certified Sex Therapist, Individual and couples therapist
Inner Stability Limited
Bet Shemesh, IsraelBibliographic Information
Book Title: The Overactive Pelvic Floor
Editors: Anna Padoa, Talli Y. Rosenbaum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22150-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22149-6Published: 11 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79379-5Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22150-2Published: 01 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 346
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urology, Gynecology, Gastroenterology