THE Multidisciplinary Pelvic Floor Unit of the Tudela Health Zone has treated 735 patients since its launch in 2020. The unit, which pioneer of the public system in Navarreattend pathologies linked to pelvic floor disorderssuch as pelvic organ descent (prolapse) or urinary and fecal incontinence.
THE prevalence of these pathologies is so high that it is estimated that approximately, A third of women will suffer from a pelvic floor disorder in their lifetime.diseases that increase with age. Since March 2023, the unit has included a Physiotherapy professional, who has carried out more than 2,300 treatment sessions during this period.
THE commissioning of this unit constituted an improvement in the portfolio of services of the Tudela Health Zonemotivated by the need to meet a growing demand for solution to these pathologies that, even if it is not the case a disorder that seriously compromises women’s healthit generates a great impact in terms of quality of life and difficulties in the social, professional and relational spheres.
THE collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of professionals This has been key to the success of this unit, as well as an organizational challenge. With the care center in gynecology consultationit is a unit which is completed with the collaboration of a coloproctologist surgeon highly specialized in this pathology, a urologist and a physiotherapist. Likewise, midwives participate in the detection and monitoring of pelvic floor pathologies thanks to their particular and continuous involvement with patients during pregnancy and postpartum.
Main pathologies and treatment of cases
THE most common pathologiesobserved in the pelvic floor unit, are pelvic organ prolapse and female urinary incontinence. THE open an associated physiotherapy practice The unit allowed the management of mild or mild-moderate or non-surgical cases through individualized physiotherapy treatments or group pelvic floor physical therapy. Rehabilitation treatment is the first course of action, with surgical treatments being the final stage of treatment.
THE Physiotherapy group treatments They are carried out in groups of 5 to 8 people and are carried out at the Tudela Este Health Center (Santa Ana), carried out by a physiotherapist. The main benefit of rehabilitation treatment is learning to recover the pelvic-peritoneal muscles, especially after pregnancy and childbirth.
In cases where conservative treatment is not possible, Prolapse correction is achieved through surgical techniques Since 2020, a total of 48 reconstructive surgeries have been performed for pelvic floor abnormalities associated with organ prolapse.
THE surgical treatments for urinary incontinence They are less and less invasive and maintain very good results. With a total of 42 surgical interventions for incontinence, last year a new strip surgical technique was implemented in the unit, minimally invasive, on an outpatient basis and with great efficiency.
