EVIDENCE-BASED PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR THE PELVIC FLOOR. BRIDGING SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. 3RD EDITION

1. OVERVIEW OF PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION
2. CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF RANDOMIZED TRIALS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL THERAPY INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PELVIC FLOOR
3. FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIC FLOOR
4. NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES
5. MEASUREMENT OF PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE FUNCTION AND STRENGTH, AND PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Visual observation and palpation
5.3 Electromyography
5.4 Vaginal squeeze pressure measurement
5.5 Pelvic floor dynamometry
5.6 Urethral pressure measurements
5.7 Ultrasound in the assessment of PFM and pelvic organ descent
5.8 MRI of intact and injured female pelvic floor muscles
6. PELVIC FLOOR AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
6.1 Motor learning
6.2 Strength training
7. FEMALE PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTIONS AND EVIDENCE-BASED PHYSICAL THERAPY
7.1 Female stress urinary incontinence
Prevalence, causes and pathophysiology
Lifestyle interventions
Bladder training
Pelvic floor muscle training for SUI
Electrical stimulation for SUI
7.2 Female overactive bladder
Pelvic floor muscle training for overactive bladder
Electrical stimulation for overactive bladder
7.3 Urinary incontinence related to the peripartum period
7.4 Pelvic organ prolapse
Clinical assessment of pelvic organ prolapse
Use of pessaries to prevent and treat pelvic organ prolapse
Pelvic floor muscle training in prevention and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse
7.5 Female sexual dysfunction
Assessment
Treatment
8. MALE PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTIONS AND EVIDENCE-BASED PHYSICAL THERAPY
8.1 Urinary incontinence and other lower urinary tract symptoms
8.2 Male sexual dysfunction
9. EVIDENCE-BASED PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTIONS AFFECTING BOTH WOMEN AND MEN
9.1 Anal incontinence
Epidemiology, anatomy and pathophysiology, and risk factors
Assessment of the nature and severity of AI
Conservative interventions for treatment of AI
9.2 Pelvic floor pain and the overactive pelvic floor
10. EVIDENCE FOR PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY IN CHILDREN
11. PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY IN THE ELDERLY: WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE?
12. EVIDENCE FOR PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
13. PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT IN ELITE ATHLETES
NEW! 14. GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER AND PELVIC FLOOR MANAGEMENT
14. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES

Written by leading experts in this field, Evidence-Based Physical Therapy for the Pelvic Floor provides physiotherapists and other professionals with knowledge and confidence to bring the latest evidence-based approaches and treatment strategies for addressing pelvic floor dysfunction to their practice.
Fully updated and with a wealth of new information, this edition includes sections on devices and apps, gynaecological cancer, sexual dysfunction, fistula, clinical use of EMG, anal incontinence and pain, as well as a discussion of sexualized violence by Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mugwege and his team.

Features:
• New and fully updated contents; new authors and new chapters provide contemporary evidence
• Innovative practice guidelines supported by a sound evidence base
• Colour illustrations of pelvic floor anatomy and related neuroanatomy/neurophysiology
• MRIs and ultrasounds showing normal and dysfunctional pelvic floor
• Key summary boxes for easy navigation
• Full colour throughout

Authors
• Kari Bo, Professor, PT, PhD, Exercise scientist, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
• Bary Berghmans, PhD, MSc, RPt, Epidemiologist and Researcher, Maastricht University Pelvic Care Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• Siv Morkved, PT, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Department of Community Medicine & General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
• Marijke Van Kampen, PhD, Professor in Rehabilitation Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, University Hospital GHB, Leuven, Belgium