Do you experience bladder weakness after having your children? Sign up to test INNOVO™’s new pelvic stimulator. £300 Love2Shop voucher to be won for feedback.

[RebeccaEMumsnet]

INNOVO™ are looking to recruit 10 Mumsnetters who experience stress incontinence to test and keep their new pelvic floor stimulator.

Stress incontinence is the term used when leaks accidently occur from coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping or doing heavy lifting. These simple movements put pressure on the bladder and, should your pelvic floor muscles be unable to tighten enough, will cause a leak. Stress incontinence can also be called bladder weakness or urinary incontinence. Importantly, we are looking for testers who are suffering from a stress incontinence following pregnancy and child birth.

Here’s what INNOVO™ have to say about their product:

‘Innovotherapy is a non-invasive way to restore your pelvic floor, treating the primary cause of urinary leaks rather than just masking the symptoms. Using a hand held controller that is attached to a two part garment, Innovotherapy sends targeted impulses via conductive pads (attached to your upper thigh and buttocks) to safely and effectively activate the muscles of the pelvic floor. It is a proven technology which has been designed to optimally strengthen your pelvic floor with 180 perfect contractions per session, allowing the device to do your pelvic floor exercises for you.

Results from a research study prove that women who experience stress incontinence will experience significant improvements in as little as four weeks by using INNOVO™ five days a week for 30 minutes. After 12 weeks of treatment the participants were defined as being ‘dry’ or ‘almost dry’.* So it won’t take long to get your confidence back’

You can see more information about the product here: www.restorethefloor.com

The product is worth £249 and selected testers will be able to keep the product afterwards.

If selected, you’d need to be able to use the product for 30 minutes per day, 5 days a week, over a 12 week period, and we’d also require you to post feedback on a thread on Mumsnet, so please only apply if you are comfortable with this.

All testers who complete the feedback process will be entered into a prize draw where one tester will win a £300 Love2Shop Voucher.

If you’re interested and would like to take part, please sign up here: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5CCTK6Y

We will be in touch with selected testers soon.

Thanks
MNHQ

• = Soeder S, Tunn R. (2012) - Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) of the Pelvic Floor Muscles using a Non-Invasive Surface Device in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI); A Pilot Study. IUGA Poster Presentation Conference, Dublin, Ireland (2013).

Questionnaire filled in.

After having our second child in a super speedy 52 second labour my pelvic floor is absolutely shot to pieces! This sounds like it could be a dream come true and something that might help a very debilitating and embaressing problem.

I'm interested. 3 weeks after my second child was born, would love to try something that's hopefully better than kegels this time round so I can get back to running without any accidents!

I've been to the women's physio, Traceyedd, didn't work, unfortunately. I'm glad yours is improving

Same here. She said I didn't have a prolapse and it would improve with pelvic floor exercises and it wasn't that bad as pads contain it.... I'm in my30s and don't want to wear pads for the rest of my life.

7 kids here. Need I say more?
Sneezing, coughing, jumping, laughing, yelling or even lifting something heavy...let's just say I have to carry spare knickers

Signed up under a namechange. I'd like to try this as I feel like my problems aren't too severe but that they are deteriorating rather than improving. I'm a bit about 'selected testers' being allowed to keep the product afterwards. Can MNHQ clarify this? If I participate in a product test and give all the required feedback I expect to be able to keep a useful item.

I used to have this problem and it is so distressing. I felt like a shadow of myself and was constantly in fear of a major accident. Pads were just a fact of life. I saw a urogynaecologist for urodynamics testing and it changed everything. I saw a physio to strengthen all my pelvic muscles and used a kegelmaster plastic exerciser. I also ended up having a Tvt op which has changed my life.

I know surgery isn't right for everyone but everyone on this thread should be seen by a urogynaecologist who specialises in this area. GPs that fob you off and say it's normal are wrong and should be referring people to physios and specialists. It's a horrible condition and it should be spoken about more.

I would love to get back to a normal life, fingers crossed.

I could only choose one answer on question 8 - not quite true to say all of the above but I definitely needed to tick more.

I had a very long pushing stage during labour and have a prolapse. I am so embarrassed by it, I feel self-conscious and unclean. I not only have leaking but also the constant urge even when I have just been to the toilet.

DS is 7 but I rarely go a day without some minor leakage. Did a fun run yesterday and DH asked about my "sweaty crotch" mortifying

Keeping my fingers crossed, my children want me to take them trampolining again

I thought I was OK, but I started a trampolining class today and I leaked. Mortified. I had SPD in all 3 pregnancies and I think it's the pelvic instability that makes me wee myself sometimes. It's not all the time but I can feel my pelvis moving and at those times I can't clench my pelvic floor - I can't feel it properly when my hips are misaligned. I'm on the waiting list for a physio appt but I don't know how long the wait is.

Yes please.

Oh goodness I could really do with one of these.

This is in the Times today.
When are they choosing? #pickme

#i would be intrested.
It has become very difficuult for me to cope with this while looking after kids. I get so frustated!badly need a solution.

My problem is that my bladder was so stretched and full during labour that I had to wear a catheter for 9 nine days after the birth of my son because I could not push the urine out and my bladder was getting fuller and fuller. It has been nearly 5 years now and I still get sudden urges to use the toilet and sometimes have to urinate every 5 minutes. I only seem to leak when I've been swimming.

Ha, yes trampolining, definitely a thing of the past!

I used to do trampolining part professionally but had to give up once I had my son as I just kept leaking. And it's only gotten worse with my second son. I would love to be able to get back to trampolining.

MNHQ Can see this has disappeared from the general 'Insight' box to right of screen - does that mean is now closed? And that my pelvic floor and I didn't get picked? It's weeping as I type this...

Hi All,

We've had an amazing response to this product test, thank you all for signing up.
The recruitment for this is now closed, we are in the process of selecting the 10 testers, and successful applicants will hear from us within the next week .

Yay!
I had to give up the Harry Potter tickets I won due to reasons beyond my control - perhaps I could be chosen for this and then at least I could start keeping something within my control

Fingers (and legs!) crossed...

Me too doorbell - maybe it's a sign - I feel it in my water

As long as you're not feeling your water when you really don't want to!

Has anyone heard about this yet?