Sometimes it's hard to know when you are doing your pelvic floor exercises (also known as Kegel exercises) correctly. Biofeedback won't tell you how to do your exercises but it will tell you if your muscles are improving. A women's health professional will teach you how to exercise and a pelvic floor exerciser (PFX) will give you visual confirmation of how you are going.
PFX is a simple air displacement pelvic floor exerciser for home use, for women who wish to improve their pelvic floor muscles. PFX allows you to carry out self-assessment of the strength and the endurance of your pelvic floor muscles, set improvement goals and monitor your progress when exercising routinely. PFX helps you reach your initial goals and maintain optimum pelvic floor health. PFX caters for the weakest and the strongest of pelvic floor muscles. It is suitable for unsupervised home use and supplied with easy to follow instructions. It can help to prevent accidental urine leaks that occur during exertion, laughing or coughing. It can help you maintain life-long pelvic floor strength, thus aiding sexual functioning and continence control.
Replacement vaginal sensors cost $27 or $120 for 6.
Replacement tubes cost $14.
Peritron 9300 V (new model) The Periniometer for Professionals
Peritron 9300 V is a hand held microprocessor-controlled Perineometer intended for assessing the strength of pelvic floor muscles and teaching pelvic floor exercises (Kegel exercises).
The new Peritron is small and light.
The new Peritron 9300 gives audio as well as visual biofeedback (numerical on LCD display in cm water and/or 'progressing bars' display for exercise feedback presented as 'better-worse' bar graph picture).
New Peritron 9300 is very sensitive, measuring and displaying the contractions numerically in cm water (cm/H2O) to 0.1 cm/H2O. Peritron 9300 can recall the peak and average values of the contraction and its duration. It also numerically displays the gradient and the area under the curve.
For teaching pelvic floor contractions the display may be switched to 'progressing bars' that provide 'better-worse' feedback. The more bars that are lit, the stronger the contractions.
Peritron's feedback display has 99 levels. Its super response picks up the first flickers of a contraction. Such sensitivity is very useful, especially with patients that have very compromised and weak pelvic floor muscles.
Peritron 9300 V summary of features:
small and light
measuring to 0.1 cm/H2O
very sensitive
gives audio as well as visual biofeedback
has linear and logarithmic biofeedback
gives comprehensive contraction measurements: Gradient, Area under Curve, Peak, Average and Duration
Specifications
Peritron 9300 V Perineometer is powered by 2 AA 1.5 V batteries.
Peritron 9300 V is supplied with a vaginal sensor, connecting tube, 2 AA batteries, quick start guide and an instructional manual on a CD.
The new Peritron also has a Bluetooth Option* for -
Real-time biofeedback on PC or PDA
Saving data for later upload to PC or PDA
Full suite of multi-channel PhysioLog Biofeedback Software
Additional analogue input socket, allowing simultaneous EMG biofeedback or other trigger information (e.g. plug an EMG with suitable data output into the Peritron and the data is sent to your PC)
