Comprehensive pelvic floor rehabilitation in a patient with sex reassignment surgery: Apropos of a case
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https://doi.org/10.28957/rcmfr.394Keywords:
Gender dysphoria, sex reassignment surgery, pelvic floor, rehabilitationAbstract
Objective. To present the rehabilitation management of the pelvic floor for the prevention of pain in a patient in the postoperative period after sex reassignment surgery.
Clinical case. A 23-year-old male patient with gender dysphoria who started the transition from man to woman seven years ago and was taken to sex reassignment surgery through the procedures of orchiectomy, partial penectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty and labiaplasty in May 2023.
Intervention. The patient underwent an in-hospital rehabilitation process for 10 days that included hypopressive abdominal exercises, re-education of the respiratory pattern, training in muscle activation of the abdominal core and sphincters, lumbopelvic mobility, use of dilators twice a day for two hours and exercises of neurodynamics, venous return and gait readaptation.
Results. After 10 days of hospitalization with early attention in pelvic rehabilitation, the patient reported an improvement in the symptom of pain; in addition, optimization of functional muscle strength and mobility of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex was evidenced, as well as a satisfactory adaptation to dilator therapies.
Conclusion. Transgender patients who undergo sex reassignment surgery experience multiple changes in their body, which generate the need for intervention by the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation area to implement comprehensive pelvic floor rehabilitation in order to prevent future complications and facilitate the process of adaptation to basic daily activities; this, added to the achievement of personal and sexual satisfaction.
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