KR20080033710A - Kegel exercises and vaginal air instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

An air circulation device for Kegel exercise for treating incontinence of urine and preventing and treating diseases of the vagina are provided to treat the incontinence of urine and to reinforce the lower muscle of pelvis. A molding material is made of an elastic natural rubber or silicone. Air check valves are attached to the upper layer portion and the lower layer portion of the inner space of the molding material of a body of the molding material. The body is inserted into the vagina. A guide is connected to the outside of the vagina from the body. An air inlet is formed on the guide to supply the air outside the vagina into the vagina. The air check valve has a concave and convex surface to prevent adhesion to the wall of the vagina, and maintains the elasticity of the device. The guide fixes the position of the device.

Description

  Kegel Exercises and Vaginal air instrument for the treatment of urinary incontinence

1 is a plan view of the instrument standing vertically.

2 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the middle of the body laterally cut away;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the body dissection. There is a top view of an air check valve inserted inside the body of the instrument.

Figure 4 is a rear view showing the guide of the lower part of the present mechanism.

 Urinary incontinence is treated with surgical methods. There are two major non-surgical methods, called conservative treatment or conservative therapy, in order to alleviate or eliminate symptoms while preserving the original form. Among them, non-surgical methods related to the present invention include Kegel Exercises and Femcon-Therapy. These treatments were introduced to Korea in 1996.

Relevant conference report below.

W.Fischer, K.Baessler, A.Linde: Beckenbodenkonditionierung mit

Vaginalgewichten (Femcon) -post partum und bei Harninkontinenz.

Zentralbl Gynakol. 118 (1996) 18-28.

Clinical results of pelvic floor muscle exercise using femcon (femcon) in urinary incontinence after childbirth.

       German Society of Gynecology (1996).

W.Fischer, K.Baessler: Postpartum Pelvic Floor Conditioning Using Vaginal

Cones (Femcon): Not only for propgylaxis Against Urinary Incontinence and Descensus.

International Urogynecology Journal 7 (1996) 208-214.

Rehabilitation of Pelvic Floor Muscles after Pants Cone

Barnacles (femcons) are not used solely to prevent urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

      International Society of Gynecologic Urology (1996).

Wolfgang Fischer, Astrid Linde: Pelvic floor findings in urinary incontinence-results of conditioning using vaginal cones (Femcon).

Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 76 (1997) 455-460.

Effect of treatment with urinary incontinence in terms of recovery of pelvic floor muscle condition

Northern European Obstetrics and Gynecology Society (1997).

 Among the above non-surgical treatments, femcon therapy is the most comparable to the present invention, but its use, convenience, structure, and effect cannot be compared with this device. It is a long tampon-shaped cylindrical rod that inserts five weights (femcons) of the same size and different weights in the vagina in order to induce contraction and relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles. In other words, by using bio-feedback by using the pants of the pants that increase the weight in each step [femcon] to strengthen the pelvic floor and to relieve or eliminate the symptoms. Although this is a treatment given from the femcon cone, which is called a cone for vagina, there are many problems in terms of the method of treatment such as psychological treatment due to its insignificant effect. The present invention (gegel exercise and treatment of women's vaginal disease, prevention device) has the two effects of urinary incontinence treatment of women and strengthening the pelvic floor muscles and at the same time to obtain the additional effect of supplying air outside the vagina into the female vagina It's about providing a 'high quality of life' for people with vaginitis or for users of Gegel. .

 The device is designed to resemble a small egg with a hollow inside on a short support and an elliptical base underneath, and is made of silicone or natural rubber with a hardness of 45-55. If you put this device in your hand and give it a force, the device will contract. If you take off the power, the device will be elastic enough to return to its original round egg shape. And from the upper end of the body with a large inner space to the lower end of the guide (Guide) is connected by a single tube through which air can be delivered. The user of the device wears the device by inserting the egg-shaped body and a short, thin tube shaped like a support into the vagina and exposing the guide of the device expressed as 'support' to the outside of the vagina. The reason for exposing the guide part to the outside of the vagina is to secure the position where the outside air can be drawn into the vagina and to prevent the entire body of the instrument from falling into the vagina during repeated contraction and relaxation of the vagina. It became. When the user contracts the vaginal muscles for Kegel exercise, the instrument also contracts along, and when the vaginal muscles are relaxed, the device returns to its original shape. Using the surplus energy of the vagina generated in this process, the apparatus draws air from the vagina into the vagina. In addition, two (air check valves for preventing air backflow) are attached to each of the upper and lower parts of the apparatus to maintain the elasticity of the apparatus using the air flow back and the air pressure.

[Figure 1] below

(E) It has an egg-shaped large elasticity with an internal space for storing air. When the user of the instrument contracts and relaxes the vaginal muscles while wearing the instrument, the body of the instrument is subject to the contraction pressure of the vaginal muscle of the user. Body that restores to the original condition when the user contracts and relaxes the vaginal muscles of the user.

 (B) Inserting the body of the instrument with a smooth surface of silicone into the vagina of the woman wet with secretions, the body and vaginal wall of the instrument are adsorbed by the surface tension of the liquid inside the vagina. This phenomenon is inconsistent with the purpose of using the instrument to supply air outside the vagina into the vagina. Therefore, the surface area of the instrument is minimized to prevent adsorption between the vaginal wall and the instrument to maintain the non-adsorption state of the vaginal wall and to speed up the air flow You need to do it smoothly. A round oral embossed protrusion covering the surface of the device to prevent the adsorption between the device and the vaginal wall and to provide a quick and even distribution of air into the vagina while stimulating the vaginal wall to contract and relax the pelvic floor.

(G) The main intake port that adheres to the outside of the female stage and prevents the inflow and depression of the apparatus into the vagina due to the contraction of the vagina due to the Kegel movement and the pressure of the vaginal muscles generated during relaxation. With guide.

(F) An air inlet that draws outside air into the vagina.

(H) Vents with air check valves that maintain the elasticity of the instrument body by increasing the internal pressure of the instrument by confining air backflow and trapping the air inside the instrument.

[Figure 3] below

(A) During the physical air circulation process, which involves the intake, storage, and discharge of air, the air inhaled by the body of the device is stored by the resilient force of the device, which is elastic when the user's vagina relaxes. An internal space that contains air to release air into the vagina during contraction of the vagina.

(C) A layer of silicon that retains the basic elasticity and shape of the device.

(D) As the user's vagina relaxes, air already stored in the body of the instrument inserted into the vagina will not allow air to flow back out of the vagina until the instrument's accompanying contraction due to vaginal contraction, and the silicone's inherent elasticity during vaginal relaxation Is a structure that sucks air when restoring, and when the user moves fluidly with kegels, air introduced into the body of the instrument inserted into the vagina is moored and cannot escape out of the vagina. It consists of two check valves attached to the upper and lower parts of the device to support and maintain the elasticity of the device, to accompany the contraction and relaxation of the vagina, and to maintain one-way flow of air.

 The female genitalia has changed to a very closed structure as humans evolved from limb walking to upright walking.As a structural cause of the female's closed genitalia, many germs in the vagina, which are located on the outermost side of the genital organs, can cause odor and various vaginosis. cause.

The present invention exposes the circular guide with the air inlet of the elastic silicone, rubber material out of the vagina and inserts the body of the air pump of the instrument into the vagina and repeats contraction and relaxation of the vagina according to the user's convenience and intention. The torso of the instrument inhales the air outside the vagina into the vagina. When the instrument contracts and relaxes, the appropriate stimulus of the instrument is transmitted to the vaginal wall of the woman to induce repetition of the Kegel movement. Kekel exercise is a simple repetitive method that requires a patient's willingness and effort to maintain the Kekel movement without electrical, chemical and physical stimuli. In 1984, bio-feedback therapy was developed to complement the shortcomings of the Kegel exercise method.In the hospital, biofeedback is often used, and femcom therapy in combination with feedback therapy is used, but these two methods are used in terms of time, economics, and psychology. It's a big burden, and you have to give up your daily routine for treatment, which is hard to work unless you keep up. However, the device induces the patient to exercise continuously through physical stimulation, and the wearing and use of the device can be used at any time and place, which is unusual in that it is possible to enjoy sports or maintain daily life such as work life. be worth. The dissemination of this Kekel exercise will reduce the family discord caused by loose dissatisfaction of the vagina due to the additional effects of the treatment and prevention of all women suffering from various obstetrics and gynecological incontinence stress as well as a healthy sex life. We look forward to the effects of raising the "quality of life" that modern people demand.

Claims (2)

It is made of elastic natural rubber or silicone, and the body is inserted into the vagina with an air check valve attached to the upper and lower parts of the inner space, and the outside of the vagina through the air inlet of the guide connected to the vagina from the body. Sculpture that supplies air into the vagina. The body of claim 1 has an air check valve for maintaining the elasticity of the device with an intaglio or embossed convex surface for preventing adsorption with the vaginal wall, and is in close contact with the vulva to fix the position of the device and to maintain air outside the vagina. Guide with air intake draws into the body of the instrument.

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