Longitudinal Study of Pelvic Floor Characteristics Before, During, and After Pregnancy in Nulliparous Women.
Ioana-Claudia LakovschekGerda TrutnovskyBarbara Obermayer-PietschDaniela GoldPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2021)
This was the first study to investigate pelvic floor characteristics in the same collective before, during, and after pregnancy. We observed pelvic floor changes from the prepregnancy state to the first trimester to postpartum. The study results need to be confirmed in a larger study.