Device for training pelvic floor muscles in order to prevent incontinence by supplementing exercise of the muscles by vibratory influence on the muscles

摘要

A probe (10) with a support plate (29) is inserted into the vagina and a cable (24) connects it to a hand-held battery-operated electronic processing unit (32) with a microprocessor, sensors, a memory, a timer circuit and a controller. The pelvic floor muscles are contracted to the largest possible force by the person and a signal representing this force is measured and stored in the memory. Contraction is then repeated at intervals and the microprocessor compares the formed and recorded values of force. If the formed force is less than 80% of the recorded value, a vibrator is activated to supplement training of the muscle for a predetermined period. AN Independent claim is included for a method for training pelvic floor muscles.