pelvic muscle exercise

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pelvic muscle exercise,

a nursing intervention from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) defined as strengthening and training the levator ani and urogenital muscles through voluntary, repetitive contraction to decrease stress, urge, or mixed types of urinary incontinence. See also Nursing Interventions Classification.

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