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Telehealth-delivered pelvic floor training after gyneacological cancer surgery

 
pelvic floor training

Telehealth-delivered pelvic floor training after gyneacological cancer surgery

Seeding Grant
Robyn Brennan
 
pelvic floor training

Grant recipient: Robyn Brennan

Project title: Telehealth-delivered pelvic floor training after gyneacological cancer surgery 

Year awarded: 2018

Grant: Seeding Grant

Grant amount: $12,000

Snapshot: Robyn Brennen APAM and her research team conducted a trial on patients experiencing incontinence after undergoing gynaecological cancer surgery. The participants completed a 12-week physiotherapist-supervised telehealth-delivered PFMT program using an intravaginal biofeedback device and associated mobile application.

The findings: Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) delivered by telehealth may be a feasible intervention for urinary incontinence and/or faecal incontinence after gynaecological cancer surgery.

Benefits to the profession: The study demonstrated the feasibility and safety of the telehealth-delivered PFMT intervention and its potential for managing urinary and/or faecal incontinence. 

Read about the findings of Robyn's study in InMotion.

About the author/s

Robyn Brennan

Robyn Brennen APAM is a physiotherapist and midwife with a passion for women’s health. She recently left her position as a Grade 4 clinical lead physiotherapist in a physiotherapy and continence clinic at Monash Health to pursue a PhD in the topic, ‘Pelvic floor dysfunction after gynaecological cancer’.