Understanding Your Pelvic Floor
The pelvic floor is a group of muscles that form the foundation of your pelvis, supporting vital organs such as the bladder, uterus and rectum. These muscles play a crucial role in your ability to control urination, stability and other pelvic floor functions. The pelvic floor muscles, vary in depth from l to 4 inches, and work together to provide support and maintain control over urinary functions.
- SUPERFICIAL MUSCLES (around 1-1.5" deep) help manage pressure during activities such as coughing, sneezing, laughing and exercising which are common triggers of stress incontinence.
- DEEPER MUSCLES (3-4" deep) are vital in controlling urge incontinence, and overactive bladder (OAB), which can result in high levels of frequent and urgent urination. These deeper layers also play a critical role in mixed incontinence, where both stress and urge incontinence occur. When these muscles become weakened and imbalanced, this leads to a lack of bladder control.
The PELVIC WAVE Difference
Pelvic Wave is unlike other option in the market given our ability to penetrate, non-invasively, up to 4 inches deep within the entire pelvic floor musculature. By strengthening and restoring balance to these deeper pelvic floor muscles, patients are resolved from incontinence, improving their quality of life. Pelvic Wave is working with Urologists, 08/GYN's, PT's, and functional medicine physicians to bring a new and effective non-invasive pelvic floor solution to their patients.
How it Works
- Sit on the Pelvic Wave chair fully-clothed for 20 minutes.
- An FDA-Cleared bio-electric magnet is activated and begins to send a “pulse wave” up to 4 inches into the body. When activated, the pulse from the Pelvic Wave chair triggers a neuro-impulse from the brain to your pelvic floor creating a contraction, ultimately allowing your body to naturally regain control of your pelvic floor function.
- The pelvic foor muscles are contracted over 5,600 and 37,000 times in a single session and over 800,000 contractions throughout the course of 24 treatments and an 8 week program. This is what creates the success of the treatment. We strengthen weak muscles and generate new neuro-pathways to the brain, which allows your body to naturally regain control of the pelvic floor function.
We use no probes, wires or electrodes to perform treatment. Nothing is inserted into the body or touches your skin. Patients are treated fully clothed and are under direct supervision of a certified Pelvic Wave operator. By adjusting the strength of the field, the muscles of the pelvic floor are induced to contract.
The magnetic stimulation from the chair causes the pelvic floor muscles to contract more than 2,500 times during a 20-minute session, and up to 50,000 times over the course of treatment.
Why Does Pelvic Wave Work?
Pelvic Wave works because the brain tells the muscles of the pelvic floor to contract, creating a neuromuscular response. This means that during therapy we are able to excite the brain, muscles and nerves in a mannter that helps reconstitute the natural method by which the body should function. We have an 80%+ success rate in re-synchronizing the bladder and pelvic floor functionality.
