ReviewWomen's health (London, England)2013
Vaginal childbirth and pelvic floor disorders.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 225 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effects of home-based stabilization exercises focusing on the pelvic floor on postnatal stress urinary incontinence and low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.International urogynecology journal · 2020Trial
- Verification of the Chromosome Region 9q21 Association with Pelvic Organ Prolapse Using RegulomeDB Annotations.BioMed research international · 2015Trial
- Identification of risk factors for postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction in a Chinese population: a retrospective study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Passive Mechanical Testing of Female Human Levator Ani and Superficial Perineal Muscles.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Sexual and bowel function in women with obstetric anal sphincter injuries after perineoplasty and sphincterorrhaphy.Narra J · 2026Article
- A metabolic-inflammatory phenotype of pelvic floor dysfunction: A machine learning-based cross-sectional study in a nationally representative US population.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- Assessing Postpartum Levator Ani Muscle Recovery: A Feasibility Study on Automated Texture Analysis in Transvaginal Ultrasound.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2025Article
- The Effect of Topical Propolis Ointment on Severity of Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing: A Triple-Blinded Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
- Impact of Gynecological Interventions on Pelvic Floor Disorders: A Descriptive Analysis of a Case Series in a Hospital-Based Surgical Cohort of 832 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Racial differences in the levator ani muscle and levator hiatus in individuals of reproductive age.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2025Article
- Impact of physician, family and society on the choice of Cesarean-section delivery mode among Lebanese females.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2025Article
- Magnetomyographic assessment of pelvic floor muscles compared to ultrasound during pregnancy.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Pelvic Floor Muscle Training vs. Vaginal Vibration Cone Therapy for Postpartum Dyspareunia and Vaginal Laxity.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Observational
- Efficacy of Electroacupuncture in the Treatment of Mild to Moderate Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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- Improving radiological quantification of levator hiatus features with measures informed by statistical shape modeling.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2024Article
- A Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches for Managing Labour Pain Using Synthetic Drugs and Natural Therapies.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2024Review
- Long-term health outcomes and quality of life in women with untreated pelvic floor dysfunction: a single-center cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Psychometric evaluation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Australian Pelvic Floor Questionnaire (APFQ-IR) in Iranian reproductive age women.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Childbearing with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders: A Large International Survey of Outcomes and Complications.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Childbirth is an important event in a woman's life. Vaginal childbirth is the most common mode of delivery and it has been associated with increased incidence of pelvic floor disorders later in life. In this article, the authors review and summarize current literature associating pelvic floor disorders with vaginal childbirth. Stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse are strongly associated with vaginal childbirth and parity. The exact mechanism of injury associating vaginal delivery with pelvic floor disorders is not known, but is likely multifactorial, potentially including mechanical and neurovascular injury to the pelvic floor. Observational studies have identified certain obstetrical exposures as risk factors for pelvic floor disorders. These factors often coexist in clusters; hence, the isolated effect of these variables on the pelvic floor is difficult to study.
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