Women's Health Virginal Atrophy

The CIM 200 Capenergy medical devices are second-generation RF and Tecartherapy (Diathermy) appliances which generate an increase in the internal temperature of the tissues and mobilise fluids according to the power applied.

It works by stimulating the body’s regenerative processes to create more hydrated and healthy cells and improve the vascularity of the genital mucosa. This improves the integrity and elasticity of the vaginal wall and normalizes pH (increases the acidity) of the vaginal environment. 

Please note: when the pH level is unhealthy you are prone to get yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis. The two key signs of unhealthy pH levels are odor and discharge.

Capenergy Tecartherapy helps to restore tone to vaginal tissues normalising its physiology and hormonal balance over time. The treatment can be used in conjunction with Hormone therapy, or as an alternative treatment for patients who are not suitable for Hormone Therapy, or those patients who have found Hormone Therapy to be ineffective.

Between 24% and 29% of women suffer from SUI post-pregnancy. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a widespread disease prevalent in women after their first birth. It is a form of urinary incontinence caused by loss of support of urethra. As a result of childbirth, a mother’s pelvic support structure has experienced damage. 

Similarly, high-impact activities or exercise can develop athletic incontinence. This condition is characterised as small urine leaking during activities which increase abdominal pressure such as laughing, sneezing, and lifting heavy objects. 

Stress urinary incontinence has altered a women’s connective tissue metabolism, which causes decreased collagen production and can result insufficient urogenital tract support.

Vaginal muscles must be able to contract to maintain continence, and to relax allowing for urination and bowel movements, and for sexual intercourse as well as for giving birth. They also support and protect the organs of the abdomen and hold the bladder in its proper place. 

The pelvic muscles can become stretched or weakened due to ageing and more specifically due to pregnancy. This often happens after a difficult childbirth which overstretches or tears the pelvic muscles and can also be the result of giving birth to several babies within a very short time span. Their under use can also cause pelvic floor weakness. 

This set of muscles, also known as the muscles of the perineum, forms the floor of the pelvic cavity and supports the pelvic organs such as the bladder, uterus, and colon and intestine. 

These muscles act like a rubber band, they need to be tensed but neither too tight to avoid pelvic floor muscle disorder nor too loose, because in both cases they will lose the right degree of elasticity and therefore their main function and could potentially create a pelvic floor dysfunction. 

A non-hormonal treatment for symptoms often related to Vulvo-Vaginal Atrophy. A 30-45-minute treatment that is pain free for patients, with minimum to no downtime following the procedure. The treatment is suitable for patients suffering from symptoms including:

• · Chronic Pelvic Pain
• · Myofascial Trigger Points (muscle connective tissue)
• · Fibrosis (thickening and scarring of connective tissues)
• · Episiotomy (tear between vaginal opening & the anus)
• · Vaginismus (unpleasant sexual intercourse, trauma at childbirth, recurrent UTI’s, thrush, chronic pain syndromes, endometriosis, rape or sexual abuse, fear)
• · Fissures (trauma to the lining of the anus (tear)) 
• · Dyspareunia (painful intercourse) 
• · Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) 
• · Prolapse 
• · Haemorrhoids
• · Recurrent Thrush and UTI (abnormal pH levels)
• · Urinary Incontinence (stress, urge, mixed, overflow, functional, reflex)
• · Vaginal Burning 
• · Loss of Vaginal Lubrication (low estrogen levels, hormonal changes, thinning of the vaginal walls (not enough cells to secrete moisture))
• · Vaginal Itching 
• · Vaginal Dryness 
• · Vaginal Laxity
• Virginal Tightening

Summary of Benefits

• · 75% reduction in pelvic pain due to endometriosis and lower back during menstruation, after 4-8 sessions.
• · 80% reduction in abdominal pain from the presence of fibroids.
• · Complete disappearance of pain sensation in lower back after 8 sessions.
• · 70% reduction in vaginal pain in patients with chronic pelvic pain resulting from obstetric trauma.
• · 100% reduction of pain by activating the TP puborectalis in 8 sessions.
• · 90% improvement in TP anal sphincter.