Are you looking for the best device to strengthen your pelvic floor and put an end to urinary leaks? Finding the right at-home pelvic floor training device can feel overwhelming with so many medical devices available. Whether you’re postpartum, want to protect your intimate comfort, or prevent pelvic organ prolapse, choosing an effective and comfortable solution is essential.

This complete guide gives you all the keys to making the right choice, understanding the technologies available, and using your pelvic floor trainer with complete peace of mind.

The essentials for choosing your pelvic floor trainer:

  • Choosing the right medical technology: Understand the key difference between electrical stimulation and biofeedback so you can effectively train your pelvic floor muscles.
  • Fast, lasting results at home: Discover how using a smart pelvic floor trainer can turn your exercises into a motivating routine with concrete, measurable benefits.
  • Simple, independent use: Master the practical steps to easily place, use, and care for your device, like the Emy Trainer training device.

The different pelvic floor training devices

There are different devices to train your pelvic floor. When looking specifically at pelvic floor trainers, two different technologies exist: biofeedback devices and electrical stimulation devices.

healthcare professional helping locate the pelvic floor

Electrical stimulation pelvic floor trainers

Electrical stimulation devices are wired devices. Electrical impulses stimulate the pelvic muscles, which then contract reflexively. Electrical stimulation devices help you train your pelvic floor passively, since the muscle contraction is not initiated by the user.

pelvic floor electrical stimulation device

These pelvic floor trainers can be particularly useful over a short period at the start of rehabilitation to learn how to locate and become aware of your pelvic floor. For long-term effects on your pelvic floor, there is another, more effective type of device.

Biofeedback pelvic floor trainers

Pelvic floor biofeedback trainers allow a real active work of the pelvic floor. With this type of device, the user must perform voluntary contractions to strengthen her pelvic floor in a lasting way.

In this case, the device only serves as a sensor. It does not vibrate or send an electrical current. It detects the contraction and relaxation movements of the pelvic floor. The biggest advantage of these devices is therefore that they enable real-time visualisation of pelvic floor contractions.

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The device picks up changes in tone and then sends a signal directly to the user’s smartphone. This means you can clearly see your contraction on the screen and adjust your movements. This enables real contraction training.

How do you use a biofeedback device for my pelvic floor?

Biofeedback pelvic floor trainers are very easy to use. For example, the Emy medical device consists of a connected pelvic floor trainer linked to a mobile app.

retrain your pelvic floor at home with emy biofeedback technology

To use it, all you need to do is connect the device to your smartphone via Bluetooth, insert the vaginal device, then follow the app’s guidance to do your pelvic floor exercises. Once the session is over, simply clean the device with water and mild soap.

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Comparison between biofeedback and electrostimulation devices

One of the main differences between the two technologies, electrostimulation and biofeedback, lies in the very principle of how they are used. With electrical stimulation, there is no learning of voluntary contraction, unlike biofeedback, which enables active contractions.

There are other differences between the two types of device. For example, you may notice the less ergonomic and less comfortable design of electrostimulation devices, which are often wired and connected to a control unit and require you to use them while lying down.

Other differences between electrostimulation and biofeedback devices are listed in the table below:

How do you use a biofeedback device for my pelvic floor?

Connected pelvic floor trainers are very easy to use at home. For example, the medical device Emy Trainer consists of a vaginal device paired with a mobile app.

To use it, all you need to do is connect the device to your smartphone, carefully insert the device with a little water-based lubricant, then let the app guide you through your pelvic floor exercises. Once the training session is over, simply clean the device with clear water and mild soap.

What are the benefits of using a pelvic floor trainer?

There are also many benefits to using a biofeedback device for your pelvic floor training. From preventing urinary leaks to improving your sex life, these devices can be your best ally in taking care of your pelvic health for the long term.

Fun pelvic floor recovery

Biofeedback devices let you train through exercises in the form of mini-games. The Emy Trainer pelvic floor trainer, for example, integrates scientifically validated protocols used by physiotherapists and midwives in practice. The device offers more than 32 medical exercises: launch a rocket or guide a character using nothing but the strength of your pelvic floor!

pelvic floor exercises with the Emy biofeedback device

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Complete pelvic floor muscle strengthening

Training sessions with the Emy Trainer device enable full muscle strengthening. You train different types of muscle fibres:

  • Fast contractions: useful when you cough, sneeze or laugh;
  • Endurance contractions: to be maintained over time, which engage the pelvic floor when you lift a heavy load (baby, shopping);
  • Repeated contractions: which are useful for sports (running, jumping) or when climbing stairs.
32 games available in the emy app

Depending on how far along you are in your recovery and which muscle fibres you want to train, the Emy device offers several game modes. They enable targeted training of pelvic floor contraction and relaxation through the device.

Fast and effective at-home recovery

The Emy Trainer device has been the subject of a clinical study proving its effectiveness. In just 3 weeks, women feel a real improvement in their pelvic floor tone.

The clinical trial also highlights a reduction in incontinence-related symptoms and a 96% user satisfaction rate!

Emy the connected biofeedback device for at-home pelvic floor recovery

With Emy, No unpleasant surprises here: it’s genuinely effective and has been clinically proven. What’s more, the solution is made close to home, in France and Portugal, and it’s rechargeable so you can use it for many years.

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Motivating pelvic floor training

A training session with a smart pelvic floor trainer is very short (5 minutes a day) compared with the 30 minutes needed for electrical stimulation. The Emy app also offers:

  • Personalised training programmes;
  • Programmable smartphone reminders so you never forget a training session;
  • Sport and yoga sessions adapted to the pelvic floor;
  • Tracking of your progress and intimate symptoms (leaks, pain, etc.).
Tracking progress on your smartphone with the Emy trainer

Another major advantage of biofeedback pelvic floor trainers is tracking progress over time. You can easily monitor changes in your pelvic floor tone and urinary symptoms.

The Emy app also gives you the option to track all your intimate symptoms (urinary leaks, libido, pain…). You don’t need to have the pelvic floor trainer to access the app for free.

How can you be sure you’re choosing the best device for my pelvic floor?

It’s essential that patients continue their pelvic floor strengthening exercises at home to preserve the benefits gained during in-clinic rehabilitation sessions.

To do this, many healthcare professionals recommend using a biofeedback device. It’s the most effective technology for achieving fast and long-lasting results.

French technological innovation Emy Trainer is among the devices recommended by healthcare professionals to keep strengthening your pelvic floor at home.

So don’t wait any longer! Pelvic floor training can be a key factor in improving your quality of life. Start your journey towards top-level pelvic health today!

Sources: 

  • Prospective evaluation of the connected biofeedback EMY Kegel trainer in the management of stress urinary incontinence, Jochum F., Garbin O., Godet J., Ragueneau M., Meyer C., Billecocq S., Lecointre L., Akladios C., Host A. (February 2022). Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction, 51(2):102280. - link 
  • Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation Using Biofeedback, Diane Kaschak Newman (July 2014). Urologic Nursing, 34(4):193-202. - link 

  • Postpartum rehabilitation, French National Authority for Health (HAS), July 2006, Clinical practice guidelines- link 

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Pelvic Floor and Intimate Health FAQ

What is the pelvic floor and what does it do?

The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and tissues that closes off the bottom of the pelvis, between the pubic bone and the tailbone. It supports the pelvic organs (bladder, womb, rectum), helps you control your bladder and bowel, and plays a role in sex. Like any muscle, it can weaken (pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, repeated strain) or, on the contrary, become too tight.

How can you strengthen your pelvic floor?

To strengthen your pelvic floor, you need to voluntarily contract the pelvic muscles (as if trying to hold in gas or the urge to urinate) only when you exhale. Do progressive exercises lying on your back or on all fours, making sure not to hold your breath or tense your buttocks. You can combine these contraction exercises with a connected biofeedback device used at home, such as Emy Trainer. This device, inserted into the vagina, tracks your muscle contractions in real time and lets you do fun exercises on your smartphone while measuring your progress.

How can you tell if you have a weakened pelvic floor?

A weakened pelvic floor is mainly recognized by urinary leaks or involuntary gas during an effort such as laughing, coughing, or jumping. It can also cause a feeling of heaviness or pressure in the lower abdomen, as well as reduced sensation or discomfort and pain during sex. These topics are common in consultations: there is no need to feel embarrassed about bringing them up. Only a manual assessment by a midwife or physiotherapist will make it possible to accurately assess the tone of your muscles and confirm the need for rehabilitation.

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