VIBRANCE PELVIC TRAINER WINS SILVER IN THE
2012 MEDICAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Vibrance recognized as one of the most Innovative new medical devices.
PHILADELPHIA – May 24, 2012 – Bioinfinity USA, an innovative medical device company focused on women’s pelvic health, today announced that its breakthrough pelvic floor muscle training device, the Vibrance Pelvic Trainer has won the Silver in the Over-the-Counter and Self-Care category of the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA). The MDEA is the Medtech industry’s premier design awards competition honoring the highest caliber medical devices on the market today. The awards recognize significant advances and innovations in the design and engineering of medical devices that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices.
“We are honored to have Vibrance receive the prestigious Silver MDEA-winning product award,” said Ng Shea Kang, Business Development Director of Bioinfinity. "We have set out to transform what is available in the marketplace to assist women in strength training of their pelvic floor muscles. We believe in the clinical importance of the right technology to help a woman achieve optimum success in this often-overlooked area of her health. The MDEA recognition for our new Vibrance device highlights the advantages our pioneering technology can provide for women and for their healthcare providers."
Vibrance and Pelvic Health
Strong pelvic floor muscles are essential to a healthy pelvic region. Pelvic floor muscles span the pelvis, supporting pelvic organs and providing passage for openings from the bladder, urethra and rectum. When a woman’s pelvic muscles are strong they help reduce or eliminate bladder leaks, prevent pelvic organ relaxation that can lead to organ prolapse, and enhance vaginal tone and sexual intimacy.
Like any body muscle pelvic floor muscles can lose tone if not exercised. Without regular resistance training exercise, pelvic floor muscles can lose up to 80 percent strength by the time a woman turns 65.1 Pelvic floor muscles lose tone gradually over time and the process can begin as early as a woman’s late teens. 1 Even when a woman is doing pelvic floor muscle exercises on a regular basis, she may not be doing them correctly and thereby not achieving muscle strengthening.
Vibrance uses a patented vibration biofeedback technology to help women know with certainty they are performing pelvic muscle strengthening exercises correctly. Vibrance consists of the main biofeedback unit and three strength enhancing sheaths. The sheaths are made of medical grade silicone rubber and provide graduated levels of resistance for pelvic muscle training.
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By utilizing Vibrance to help in strengthening the pelvic floor muscles, women can take a proactive approach that can help them attain several important health benefits: regaining pelvic muscle tone after childbirth; enhanced sexual intimacy; improving bladder control and preventing incontinence; strengthening pelvic floor organ support to prevent organ prolapse; and relief from back pain caused by weak pelvic support. With Vibrance women can have greater peace of mind and confidence.
About the Vibrance Pelvic Trainer
The Vibrance Kegel Device is the principal product of Bioinfinity USA. It is an innovative biofeedback device that provides variable resistance training to female pelvic floor muscles to improve pelvic health and quality of life. Vibrance is the result of years of medical and market research. Vibrance has received a Silver Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for medical device design and engineering excellence in the over-the-counter and self-care category. For more information, please visit http://vibrancepelvictrainer.com.
About the MDEA Awards
The Medical Design Excellence Awards is the Medtech industry’s premier design awards competition recognizing contributions and advances in the design of medical devices. Entries are evaluated on their design and engineering features; innovative use of materials; user-related functions; improving healthcare delivery and changing traditional medical attitudes or practices; and features providing enhanced benefits to the patient.
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Reference:
1. The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC), “What I Need To Know About Bladder Control For Women, (August 2007, page 1),” available at www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov
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