Irmina Nahon

Assessing muscle function of the male pelvic floor using real time ultrasound

Following surgical removal of the prostate, there may be compromise to the function of the pelvic floor muscles causing continence problems. Assessing the pelvic floor muscles of male patients can be an invasive process that causes discomfort, making it worthwhile to evaluate alternatives to the conventional method of Digital Rectal Examination (DRE). Real time ultrasound (RTUS) has been used with female patients as an alternative to internal assessments. This paper examines the reliability and validity of assessing the male pelvic floor using abdominal RTUS.

A reference tool for continence physiotherapists

Professor Grace Dorey works as a Consultant Physiotherapist for Continence and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. She is one of only a handful of physiotherapists specialising in male incontinence worldwide. This textbook has developed from her 2001 book Conservative Treatment of Male Urinary Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction. Seven new chapters have been added and existing chapters have been updated extensively. Classification of male urinary incontinence has been restructured in line with the International Continence Society standardisation of terminology. The textbook is aimed at physiotherapists, continence and urology nurses, GPs and urologists as a reference tool for treating men.