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NEW: PelvicTool pelvic floor training device for rent

Nov 14, 2024 | Uncategorized

Would you like to try the PelvicTool Home & Sport pelvic floor trainer before purchasing? Some of our distribution partners now offer rental options in addition to sales.

Have you discovered the PelvicTool at a fitness center, with your physiotherapist, urologist, or during a postnatal recovery course and would now like to test it comfortably at home? No problem! You can easily rent the PelvicTool from one of our Alonea distribution partners and try it out before deciding to purchase.

Important: Train your pelvic floor muscles regularly

“To achieve and maintain long-term improvement, pelvic floor training must be integrated into daily life permanently.” Susanne Egli, Physiotherapist, Medbase Winterthur, Brunngasse

If you are considering renting a pelvic floor trainer or purchasing one, it is important to know that the pelvic floor muscles – like any other muscle – must be trained continuously and regularly to achieve long-term results. The PelvicTool supports you optimally by enabling effective and comfortable training. You can easily track your progress via the app. The padded seat and soft sensor tube ensure pain-free training. Just as important: thanks to its ease of use, the PelvicTool can be effortlessly integrated into your daily routine. No changing clothes, no insertion – minimal time required. With just 5 minutes of training, 3 times per week, you can strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.

An investment in health and well-being that pays off – for the whole family!

Pelvic floor trainer rental in Switzerland: Parsenn Produkte AG

Parsenn Produkte AG offers customers two options: you can either rent the PelvicTool Home & Sport for an affordable monthly fee of only *CHF 55.00 (excl. VAT, plus shipping), or purchase the pelvic floor trainer directly via the company’s webshop. The rental offer is available exclusively to customers based in Switzerland.

*Prices subject to change. Please refer to the company’s website for current conditions:

Parsenn Produkte AG, Chlus 13, 7240 Küblis, Tel. 081 300 33 33, parsenn-produkte.ch

Rental in Germany and Austria: Beckenboden-Gesundheit.com

The company Beckenboden-Gesundheit.com specializes in supporting and promoting awareness of pelvic floor health. They offer the Alonea PelvicTool for both purchase and rental. If you decide to purchase later, rental payments will be credited towards the purchase price. The rental offer is available exclusively to customers based in Germany and Austria.

For current conditions, please refer directly to the company’s website:

Beckenboden-Gesundheit.com, Sulzberg, Tel. +49 157 8864 53 79

Pelvic floor training for prostate issues?

Oct 18, 2024 | Uncategorized, Uncategorized

Pelvic floor training has proven to be extremely helpful for prostate problems. Behind the “man’s disease” is the proliferating prostate gland, which hinders urination and causes urinary incontinence. Surgery for prostatic hyperplasia or prostate cancer further aggravates the symptoms. A pelvic floor training device like the Alonea PelvicTool strengthens the pelvic floor muscles and often not only relieves incontinence, but also improves sex life and posture.

Men go through menopause too

As with women, men’s hormones ride a roller coaster as they age. The testicles are in the driver’s seat: Their intermediate cells produce fewer sex hormones from the age of 50. Decreasing testosterone levels are manifested by decreased sex drive and enlarged prostate gland.

The prostate represents the largest part of the ejaculate. For this purpose, the walnut-sized organ located in the pelvic floor encloses the urethra, into which it releases its secretion and brings the sperm to life.

What is benign prostatic hyperplasia?

This proximity can become a problem in old age, because the prostate tissue grows hormone-dependent. Less testosterone in the blood makes it proliferate in many men, causing benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The common “man’s disease” narrows the urethra and impairs urination. The first signs of BPH are a nocturnal urge to urinate with incomplete bladder emptying, and later urinary incontinence and urinary retention. Other typical complaints are erectile dysfunction and painful ejaculation with reduced ejaculate quantity.

What to do about benign prostate enlargement?

Man is reluctant to go to the doctor, because the subject is embarrassing to him? He should. The contact person is the urologist who also performs the prostate screening. Early detection is important because minimally invasive surgery is possible with early diagnosis. In transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), the surgeon inserts an endoscope through the urethra and removes the excess tissue with a wire loop or laser.

How to treat prostate cancer?

Waiting can be fatal, because sometimes BPH becomes malignant and develops into prostate cancer. In the case of complete removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy, RPE), the surgeon removes the prostate and local metastases from the pelvic floor. The operation is performed classically with an abdominal incision or minimally invasive via a laparoscope inserted through the abdominal wall.

What are the consequences of prostate surgery?

Problematic are interventions on the pelvic floor muscles, sphincter and urethra as well as the peeling or removal of the prostate capsule. The muscles in the pelvic floor hold the bladder and the urinary tract in place, the sphincter is necessary for urine control, and the nerves for erection and ejaculation run in the capsule. Therefore, urinary incontinence and impotence are the most common consequences of prostate surgery.

With urinary incontinence, there are not only problems with urination, but urine is passed involuntarily and/or it “dribbles” after going to the toilet up to continuous urine loss. Such symptoms significantly impair the quality of life, and many sufferers withdraw and avoid social contacts. This can be easily helped for most: A pelvic floor training device alleviates many complaints.

“After undergoing a nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy, I began pelvic floor training during my follow-up rehabilitation program. I found it difficult to activate my pelvic floor in order to engage the urinary sphincter.
In addition to the rehabilitation program, I was introduced to the PelvicTool by Alonea during the second week of my stay. I was enthusiastic about it from the very beginning. In a playful way, I was quickly able to become more aware of my pelvic floor and successfully train the sphincter.”

Heito Saladin

Former physical therapist and rehabilitation patient following prostatectomy

How might a pelvic floor exerciser help after prostate surgery?

The emptying of the bladder is controlled by the ring muscle at the bladder outlet and the
Pelvic floor muscles. The sphincter muscle opens the bladder, the muscles in the pelvic floor, together with the bladder muscles, push the urine out, and finally the muscle ring closes again. Unlike our skeletal muscles, the smooth muscles involved in this process are not normally subject to voluntary control. But it is possible: everyone does their first pelvic floor training as a baby – at some point, urinary incontinence is a thing of the past, and we go to the potty on our own without diapers.

The pelvic floor muscles can also be trained in a similar way by tensing and relaxing them. A great help here is a pelvic floor training device, with which such exercises can be done easily.

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Recommended by physiotherapists: Alonea PelvicTool for pelvic floor training

Pelvic floor training used to be reserved for rehab and physical therapy, but today anyone can do it at home. The PelvicTool by Alonea is intimate-free and very easy to use via app: Sit on the comfortable seat with normal sports clothes and complete your exercises according to the instructions.

The corresponding app visualizes contraction and relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles directly on your smartphone, so you can follow your training in real-time.

“Although I could no longer feel my pelvic floor muscles after a radical prostatectomy, I learned to control my pelvic floor muscles and alleviate my incontinence symptoms with the help of the PelvicTool. Seeing my progress in the app motivated me to keep going.”

U. Rosendahl Huber

“The Alonea PelvicTool makes pelvic floor training engaging and accessible, which is especially valuable for men. The visual biofeedback improves awareness, makes the topic easier to understand and helps break down barriers. Men are usually very motivated when training with it.”

Melanie Gähler

Physiotherapist (BSc/FH) / Pelvic Health, Physiowerkstatt Näfels GL

Helps you become aware of, control and strengthen your pelvic floor: PelvicTool

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Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy medbase, Winterthur: PelvicTool as an aid in rehabilitation

Jul 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

Use of the «Alonea PelvicTool» pelvic floor trainer in professional pelvic floor physiotherapy.

Through a combination of patient-centered physiotherapy and independent training at home, many pelvic floor disorders can be treated sustainably. The medical health centre of Medbase Winterthur uses the PelvicTool Home & Sport to support the pelvic floor rehabilitation of its patients.

Susanne Egli has specialized in pelvic floor rehabilitation for over twenty years and brings her extensive knowledge to the Medbase practice at Brunngasse 6 in Winterthur. After a thorough examination and assessment, she also uses the PelvicTool Home & Sport pelvic floor trainer in her daily practice, which successfully helps patients to train independently at home.

As a physiotherapist, after the birth of her two children and the resulting changes in her own body, Ms Egli became interested in the hidden muscles. The personal and intimate nature of her work, combined with the very different types of ailments, is exactly the kind of exciting challenge that she enjoys so much about her profession.

Pelvic floor – a taboo subject?

Although urinary incontinence is now openly discussed in many places, not all problems related to weakness or overstretching of the pelvic floor muscles are taboo. These include impaired bowel function, prolapse, pain during sexual intercourse or general pain in the bladder, vagina and rectum, which are in close proximity to the pelvic floor.

“An overactive pelvic floor muscle is also not uncommon and should be treated with specific relaxation exercises”. Susanne Egli, physiotherapist, Medbase Winterthur, Brunngasse

Pelvic floor problems can affect all age groups, although the risk of incontinence problems in women increases with age. Working with children and teenagers requires additional specialisation in pelvic floor physiotherapy. Men are also affected by the problem, especially after prostate surgery. As a result, many patients lose self-confidence and reduce their mobility to the point of isolation, as even a simple trip into town can become a psychological burden.

Professional support for lasting treatment success

This makes it all the more important to put yourself in the hands of a professional for a thorough assessment. Susanne Egli will first carry out a vaginal or anal examination to determine whether and to what extent there is under- or over-activity and whether the person concerned is able to control the pelvic floor muscles selectively at all.

Susanne Egli points out: “About one third of those affected cannot feel exactly where the pelvic floor is and are therefore unable to contract and relax it or even compensate for movement by activating other muscle groups.”

In the case of devices with pressure sensors, this can lead to patients receiving positive feedback on their training even though it is triggered by the wrong muscle groups. For Susanne Egli, it is therefore very important to work with patients over a number of physiotherapy sessions to develop the ability to contract muscles correctly. However, once this awareness has been developed, regular training at home can reduce symptoms and, in the long term, significantly improve quality of life within a few weeks.

“Our aim is to sensitise patients over the course of several sessions to the training and use of the pelvic floor muscles in everyday life and then to release them into independence,” says Susanne Egli.

Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy Device PelvicTool Alonea

Neuromuscular training with biofeedback

The Alonea PelvicTool is ideal for working with patients for a number of reasons, as the pelvic floor therapist explains: “As no sensor needs to be inserted into the body, patients need to exert very little effort, so the device can be used without much effort in everyday practice, even for shorter training sessions. “The PelvicTool consists of the training app and a seat cushion with a sensor tube in the middle, on which the patient sits in light training clothes. In biofeedback training, the contraction and relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles is measured by sensors and visualised in the PelvicTool app. This makes it possible to check in real time on the smartphone or tablet during the therapy session whether the patient is exercising at the right level. Individual settings for the training programmes are also possible, as is guided or free training.

The Alonea PelvicTool provides targeted training, whether you are treating pelvic floor weakness or excessive tension. Its ease of use makes it ideal for lending to patients: It is easy to use and motivates patients to train independently with short, varied training sessions with progress monitoring.

Because, says pelvic floor physiotherapist Susanne Egli: “In order to achieve and maintain long-term improvement, pelvic floor training must be integrated into everyday life forever.”

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Medbase Winterthur Brunngasse

Brunngasse 6

8400 Winterthur

Tel. +41 52 260 37 80
winterthur-brunngasse@medbase.ch

www.medbase.ch

Targeted pelvic floor training in physiotherapy

Jan 10, 2024 | Uncategorized

In everyday practice and clinical settings, pelvic floor therapy often faces the challenge of meeting patients’ high expectations while working with limited treatment time. The PelvicTool pelvic floor trainer from Alonea has proven to be a valuable testing and training device. With efficient and measurable training programs, it helps therapists work in a targeted and time-saving manner.

In this article, experienced physiotherapists Nadja Büttner and Gabriele Freiburg share their practice-oriented experiences with the application of the Alonea PelvicTool in pelvic floor therapy.

Interview in the German professional journal “PhysioD” of the German Association for Physiotherapy e.V., Issue 4/2024.

Nadja Büttner, B.Sc. Physiotherapist, M.Sc. OMT, Head of Gynecology, Obstetrics, Proctology, Urology at Therapy4U. Pelvic floor therapy following the AGGGUP PhysioPelvica® method. www.therapy4u.de

Gabriele Freiburg, state-certified physiotherapist, Head of Physical Therapy at Sauerlandklinik Hachen, pelvic floor course instructor following the BEBO® concept, sectoral non-medical practitioner for physiotherapy. www.sauerlandklinik-hachen.de

Which patient groups do you recommend the PelvicTool from Alonea for?

Men preoperatively and postoperatively after four weeks, depending on complaints and the activation state of the muscles. Women with postpartum complaints, as well as women and men with issues related to continence control. Lower back pain can also be related to the pelvic floor muscles. Additionally, it is suitable for anyone who wants to better understand and train their pelvic floor.

Can your patients target specific training goals with the device? And how soon do they see results?

Yes, various training goals can be targeted. Depending on the deficit, results can be observed on the PelvicTool, as reported by patients, after just two to four sessions.

For which indications have you had particularly good experiences with the PelvicTool?

For urinary issues. For example, the awareness and control of straining during urination can often be addressed effectively in the first sessions. Particularly for men, it quickly enhances the perception of the correct sitting or standing posture and the feeling of a relaxed pelvic floor.

Ms. Freiburg, why do you use the PelvicTool for these indications?

With multiple sclerosis, we often encounter sensory disturbances, which make therapy challenging. Dysfunctions of the pelvic floor muscles require diverse therapeutic approaches. Visualizing muscle activity in the pelvic floor area is a great help for both the patient and the therapist. Both gain a certain level of control and feedback.

The patient sees, “this is what I’m doing.” Additionally, the training protocols in the app provide a clear overview of progress. For the patient, motivation is crucial, and this is definitely supported by the Alonea PelvicTool.

What are the results?

With good therapeutic success, it improves postural control as well as the voiding and storage functions for urine and stool on the physical level, reduces the risk of urinary tract infections, and enhances quality of life and motivation on the psychological level, minimizing the risk of social withdrawal.

NB: Pelvic floor training requires persistence, endurance, and discipline, as activating the pelvic floor muscles is always a cognitive effort and the muscle is not visible. The PelvicTool helps with motivation and enhances success, as patients can easily train with it at home in their daily routine.

The PelvicTool Home & Sport, developed by the Swiss medical technology company Alonea AG, is available at selected specialist retailers as well as in the webshop.

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Pelvic floor rehabilitation in physiotherapy Physio Rehab

May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

The Physio Rehab has a team of eight physical therapists offering a wide range of therapies, including pelvic floor rehabilitation.

«Bladder conditions such as urinary incontinence and irritable bladder symptoms are among the most common women’s complaints,» says Physio-Rehab Managing Director Fiona Grunder. The complaints can be triggered even in younger women, for example by the birth of a child, but also by sporting activities. Often, the complaints only appear after menopause. According to statistics, around 40% of women, but also many men, are affected in the course of their lives.

Indications for pelvic floor rehabilitation

Pelvic floor therapy is indicated in the absence of awareness of the pelvic floor, stress or stress incontinence, lowering of the uterus or as preventive training after pregnancy. The pelvic floor muscles are weakened and their function is impaired. With targeted pelvic floor rehabilitation, complaints can often be treated successfully.

Medical aids in therapy

«We offer our patients a wide range of treatment options,” says Fiona Grunder. The therapy aids are specifically adapted to the needs of the patients. For some time now, pelvic floor rehabilitation at Physio Rehab has also included exercises with the PelvicTool Home & Sport. The PelvicTool is a digital pelvic floor trainer that can be used as a perception-enhancing tool and to strengthen the pelvic floor. Likewise, therapists can optimally use the device to monitor progress and thus objectify the progress of patients. The PelvicTool Home & Sport includes an anatomically shaped seat cushion with soft sensor tube for pain-free training as well as the PelvicTool app for monitoring training performance.

Patients respond very well to the device. It shows them immediately and directly whether and how well they can target the pelvic floor.»

«The display of the pelvic floor contractions on the tablet makes it easier for us therapists to control the training» mentions the managing director. Patients also find it pleasant that they can train clothed, in contrast to other incontinence therapy devices. Pelvic floor training with the PelvicTool is therefore a method of first choice for pelvic floor therapy.

The physiotherapist emphasizes: «Crucial for the success of the therapy is regular practice at home and behavioral changes in everyday life, for example relieving positions or a change in drinking behavior».

Pelvic floor therapy requires a doctor’s prescription from either the gynecologist or the family doctor. Fiona Grunder: «Patients often shy away from approaching their doctor about complaints and wait until the level of suffering is too high. That’s a shame, because with targeted pelvic floor therapy, the complaints can often be successfully alleviated or eliminated altogether.»

Physio Rehab Richterswil

Gartenstrasse 10

8805 Richterswil, Switzerland

Phone 044 784 95 70

www.physio-rehab.ch

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