Address Urinary Incontinence with Emsella
What is Urinary Incontinence?
The pelvic floor muscles play a crucial role in supporting pelvic organs and maintaining continence. However, factors like ageing, childbirth, and menopause can weaken these muscles, leading to urinary incontinence, which is the involuntary leakage of urine. There are three main types of urinary incontinence:
- Stress incontinence occurs when pressure is applied to the bladder, often resulting in leakage when coughing, laughing, sneezing, or during physical activities.
- Urge incontinence is characterized by a sudden and frequent urge to urinate, which can lead to unintentional leakage.
- Mixed incontinence combines features of both stress and urge incontinence.
What is Emsella?
To address urinary incontinence, Emsella stimulates deep pelvic floor muscles and restores neuromuscular control. During a single Emsella session, thousands of muscle contractions occur, aiding in the reprogramming of muscles in individuals with incontinence. This treatment is not limited to specific pelvic floor muscles but targets all of them. The goal is to strengthen these muscles, providing resolution of incontinence and enabling individuals to regain confidence in their daily activities.
Additionally, Emsella presents as a very effective alternative to prescription medications for erectile dysfunction in men struggling with erection issues and premature ejaculation. It addresses the root causes of erectile dysfunction, helping men achieve and maintain erections.
How does Emsella work?
Emsella relies on High-Intensity Focused Electromagnetic (HIFEM) technology to stimulate pelvic floor muscles with electric currents in neuromuscular tissue, resulting in 10,000+ supramaximal muscle contractions. These supramaximal contractions exceed the typical maximum tension achieved in brief voluntary muscle contractions, known as the maximum voluntary contraction (MVC). HIFEM technology can initiate and maintain these supramaximal contractions for several seconds.
What sets HIFEM apart from voluntary exercises like Kegels is that it doesn’t require conscious control from the brain. Instead, it directly stimulates the peripheral nerves within the pelvic floor area. HIFEM progressively intensifies focused electromagnetic fields and pulse frequency, leading to remarkably robust contractions. A single HIFEM session can generate thousands of these potent pelvic floor muscle contractions.
This approach is crucial for re-educating weakened pelvic floor muscles since conventional exercises cannot replicate the high-repetition rate needed to achieve such effective supramaximal contractions. The focused electromagnetic energy deeply penetrates and enhances the entire muscle structure of the pelvic floor. This process promotes more efficient muscle fibre growth, ultimately restoring neuromuscular control and fortifying the pelvic floor muscles.
What does it feel like?
During an Emsella treatment, you’ll experience tingling sensations and pelvic floor muscle contractions, which have been likened to the feeling of doing Kegel exercises. These sensations are not painful, and many individuals find the procedure comfortable enough to chat with friends or family or read a book or magazine during the quick, approximately 30-minute session. You can remain fully clothed and relax while seated on the Emsella chair, and there’s no discomfort associated with the treatment.
Treatment recommendations
For an Emsella treatment, wear loose, metal-free clothing and remove jewelry. Avoid using electronic devices during the session to prevent damage. Don’t use feminine sanitary products like tampons or liners and avoid treatment during menstruation due to risk of increased blood flow. No specific precautions are needed before or after the session, and you can return to your regular activities immediately. Emsella is non-invasive, typically well-tolerated, with only mild discomfort like stiffness when getting up and slight soreness the following day, which doesn’t disrupt daily life.
Benefits
- Suitable for both men and women.
- Enhanced sexual performance.
- Strengthened pelvic floor.
- Improved vaginal sensation and tightness.
- Reduced fecal and urinary incontinence.
- Enhanced quality of life.
- Restored bladder control.
- Quick treatment.
- Comfortable procedure.
- No down time required.
Who is a candidate for this treatment?
If you’re experiencing challenges related to your pelvic health, such as issues with bladder control, embarrassing urine leakage during daily activities, or intimate health concerns, Emsella might offer a suitable treatment option for your needs. Emsella, the FDA-approved technology, is suitable for individuals of all ages, offering effective results for both men and women. For women, it helps counter the effects of ageing, childbirth and menopause on the pelvic floor muscles, while men can benefit from this treatment for issues resulting from infections, prostate cancer, or stress affecting incontinence and intimate health.
Safety Assurances
The Emsella chair, using HIFEM® technology, is a unique and effective procedure for deep pelvic floor stimulation, targeting pelvic floor muscles without the risk of adverse effects with other procedures like intravaginal Electrostimulation. Unlike those methods, Emsella is FDA-cleared and medical CE-marked, with multiple studies demonstrating its efficacy in strengthening pelvic floor muscles and treating issues such as incontinence and intimate dysfunction.
Who should avoid Emsella?
Emsella treatment is not suitable for individuals who are pregnant, in the postpartum period, nursing, or menstruating. It is also contraindicated for those with electronic implants like cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, or neurostimulators, as well as individuals with metal implants, drug pumps, malignant tumors, pulmonary insufficiency, injured or impaired muscles, cardiovascular diseases, contagious skin diseases, elevated body temperature, or fever.