Anatom3DSuperficial transverse perineal
Musculus transversus perinei superficialis · Povrchový příčný sval hráze
Muscles
Looks like
A slim muscle running across the perineum from each sitting bone to the perineal body.
What it does
Steadies the perineal body, supporting the pelvic floor.
Keeping it well
In women often torn in childbirth; tears are repaired straight after birth, and lasting pain or incontinence should be reported.
Related conditions
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chronic constipation
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Prostatitis & pelvic pain
- Rectal prolapse
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus