People in Bulgaria tend to see the month of March as being female and not only because of Granny Martha on the 1^st, or women’s day on the 8^th March. The frequent swift changes of weather in March are likened to the changes of mood in women.

But few people realize that mood changes may be due to problems women are too embarrassed to talk about.

One of them is the weakening of the pelvic floor which, with age, leads to a number of complaints, which are generally asymptomatic but can cause a lot of problems in daily life. The only solution in this case is surgery. But not all elderly patients can undergo surgery.

While seeking a solution to these problems, Dr. Borislava Popova chanced upon an innovative method which relieves suffering considerably – an electromagnetic chair, a new method used to treat pelvic floor muscles:

As a matter of fact these are muscles we very rarely use, and with age they become flaccid, Dr. Popova says. That is true of men as well but with women the symptoms are more pronounced, not only because of previous births but also because of the female physiology. The idea of the chair which can be used in normal clothes, is, in the course of 28 minutes, to cause muscle contraction by electromagnetic waves, something that cannot be done any other way. The “smart” chair provides impulses in 33 different modes to prevent the muscles from adapting to them.

Bulgaria is among the few countries which apply this non-invasive method developed in Great Britain which is just making its way into medicine. 

These are things which, until five years ago, we had no idea would open up such vistas, Dr. Popova explains. Thanks to the electromagnetic chair an elderly patient with multiple concomitant illnesses, including a stroke, improved her health considerably without surgery. In Dr. Popova’s words 80 percent of women have, at some point in their lives had an episode connected with incontinence (involuntary urination). Unfortunately many are too embarrassed to discuss the problem. Treatment of these dysfunctional problems is part of what is known as aesthetic medicine because the patients are considered clinically healthy.

They are said to be completely healthy but that is not so. When there is pelvic floor dysfunction surgery is not always the answer, neither is medication. After the introduction of aesthetic gynecology and the non-surgical methods it offers we are able to relieve these ailments. We do not aim to beautify, we help people regain their health and revert to their normal, natural state.