Urinary incontinence after prostatectomy

Prostatectomy is the removal of part or all of the prostate tissue. It is indicated when, because of age and health, other methods have been ruled out or are no longer effective in improving quality of life in patients with prostate cancer or symptoms of benign prostatic hypertrophy or hyperplasia.

Prostatectomy can have several sequelae, especially because of the risk to nerve branches or blood vessels around the prostate during surgery.

Among them we can mention:

Strengthening the pelvic floor muscles helps maintain or improve sphincter motor control and speed recovery. It is important that the patient has an adequate breathing pattern and better proprioception (connection) with the pelvic floor, to avoid excessive pressure increases inside the body.

Physiotherapy focuses on restoring strength and motor control. This is how we do it:

Through stimulation and regeneration of collagen to promote better pelvic muscle function.

Diaphragmatic release, because a good breathing pattern maintains correct activation and synergy of the abdomen and pelvic floor. The abdomen, the segment that precedes the pelvic floor, helps protect us from pressures entering the body so they are not directed 100% to the pelvic floor.

Strengthening exercises for abdomen and pelvic floor to promote not only strengthening but also a protective action.

Among the equipment we use is Tesla Care, an electromagnetic chair that generates an energy field and reaches the pelvic musculature in depth to help meet your treatment goals.

Radiofrequency, through which we deliver energy to the tissues to achieve oxygenation and vascularisation and thus collagen regeneration and elastin production.

We invite you to have a pelvic floor assessment if you have related symptoms after surgery.