FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
This is about resolving urinary incontinence. Containment is not a solution.
We can help resolve symptoms of urinary incontinence in women. It is about doing pelvic floor exercises correctly.
How it works
femfit® is a intra-vaginal device used while performing pelvic floor exercises at home. The device sends feedback to the femfit App on a patient's phone providing detailed guidance on technique.
Goal: make the purple bars go up (sensors in the pelvic floor zone) and keep the black bar down (sensors for intra-abdominal pressure).
The femfit App guides them when and how much to contract. Exercises to build neural connections, build co-ordination and build muscle strength. Progressive with intensity and duration. Progressive from exercising lying down, to sitting to standing. Targets adjusted based on patient history. RCT evidence of programme effectiveness.
femfit® device
Soft, flexible and discreet, easily incorporate strength training into the daily routine, starting with just 8 minutes a day
Real-time insights
12 weeks of guidance, including real-time feedback via app to improve technique and effectiveness
Creating a habit
Exercising our pelvic floors needs to become a habit. Correct technique and good results make this a reality.
Eight tiny sensors, infinite possibilities.
femfit®'s advanced biofeedback technology utilises pressure to better understand your individual exercise technique.
Powered by a proprietary array made up of eight tiny (but mighty) sensors, femfit® produces your very own, unique pressure profile. This profile measures the activation of the pelvic floor muscle and abdominal pressure simultaneously, delivering real-time feedback via the app—simply follow the bird to see if you're contracting your muscles correctly.
SO WHAT IS NEW?
We've been exercising for 80 years!
We owe thanks to Margaret Morris for describing specific training exercises for the pelvic floor muscles and to Arnold Kegal for first publishing on their effectiveness back in 1948. So why isn't everyone into them?
It turns out that 40% of women do the wrong thing when attempting to engage with their pelvic floor muscles. Often wrong technique means bearing down and contracting abdominal muscles. That might still be good for those other muscles, but it wont lead to improved pelvic floor muscle function.
The pelvic floor muscles will cross over, and nearby the vagina. The femfit device has an array of 8 pressure sensors along the length of the vagina, the deepest sensor (black bar) is beyond where the pelvic floor muscles are located and measures intra-abdominal pressure. The first group of sensors (purple bars) will measure pelvic floor muscle contractions (which sensor depends on posture, and we want our women training lying down, sitting and standing). The goal is simple: any purple bar up and black bar down. femfit users develop the correct technique because they can see what they are doing.
femfit® gives visibility (on a mobile phone!) of what muscles are being used. Exercising the right muscles is a key component to a successful outcome.
Why femfit®?
What is special about our pelvic floor muscles is that they are hard to see. But training them is like all our other muscles, it takes time and effort. We want a full range of movement. The femfit® device is thin and flexible, it moves as the pelvic floor muscles contract. There are other devices intended to help with pelvic floor training, they tend to be solid and rigid. A solid space-occupying device supports iso-metric muscle exercising which is not the most efficient way to build muscle function.
It is not just about squeeze, hold, relax, repeat. We want to practice rapid movement, controlled movement and instinctive movement (e.g. preparing for a sneeze). femfit® exercise sessions include Squeeze and hold, rapid, enduro and Knack exercise types. The programme gets harder and adapts the strength required from each user to match their capability.
A training session lasts 8 minutes.
This digital technology transfers the capability, power and accountability for exercising from you to your patient to perform at home. Adherence is reported back to them with every session recorded and analysis feedback to their phone. With your patient's consent, you can see their adherence (and performance) data. You don't need to access it, your ability to access will be motivation for their adherence!
Our research credentials
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Data-driven modelling of fatigue in pelvic floor muscles when preforming kegel exercises.
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Design and development of a novel intra-vaginal pressure sensor.
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Clinical evaluation of a high-fidelity wireless intravaginal pressure sensor.
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Can you train the pelvic floor muscles by contracting other related muscles?
Working together
If you refer your patients, we will look after them, monitor their progress and journey to pelvic floor health.
We work with many women's health pelvic floor physiotherapists. Your patient can find a local physio on our website.
If you would like to be involved in your patients pelvic floor health journey, your patient can enter a unique clinic code into their App to share their femfit data with you.
If you would like to stock femfit, let us know and we can arrange clinic code for discounts and data access.