[Auto-reeducation of female stress urinary incontinence]

The Pelvia device is the fruit of the latest anatomic, functional and physiotherapeutic research into the pelvic floor. Thanks to its sophisticated technology, Pelvia is a user-friendly device fully suited to today's lifestyle of women, allowing them to do self-retraining exercises of the perineal muscles as an adjunct to the other therapies available. It is a reliable method to make patients aware of the strength and improvement of th perineal muscles contraction. It has nothing to do with "vaginal weight cones". This method is based on feedback, but the weight of the device itself does not only increase awareness but allows patients to increase their muscular strength. 30 women with stress urinary incontinence followed the protocol of self-retraining. All of them presented the following symptoms: urinary leakage, urethral urinary incontinence due to urethral hypermobility or sphincteral insufficiency, a perineum muscular testing below 4. After retraining the results were as follows: 17 cases of cure (57%); 9 cases (30%) were improved without full disappearance of incontinence; 4 cases failed (13%). The average follow-up period is 10 months (2-22). The results observed in 30 women seem promising. Of course this is only a small series and results need confirming by studying a larger series with a longer follow-up.