Vintage Arnold Kegel Perineometer Vaginal Pelvic Floor Gynencology Device 1948

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Vintage Arnold Kegel Perineometer Vaginal Pelvic Floor Gynencology Device 1948.
Rare collectors item. The device itself is functioning and the meter has not a scratch on it, which can be seem in the pictures.
In the manual, there is a progress chart” that has not been written in, leading me to believe that perhaps this has never been used.
A Kegel perineometer or vaginal manometer is an instrument for measuring the strength of voluntary contractions of the pelvic floor muscles. Arnold Kegel (1894–1972) was the gynecologist who invented the Kegel perineometer (used for measuring vaginal air pressure) and Kegel exercises (squeezing of the muscles of the pelvic floor). This followed the observation that muscles of the pelvic floor inevitably weakened following the trauma of childbirth. Ascertaining the air pressure inside the vagina by insertion of a perineometer, while requesting the woman to squeeze as hard as possible, indicates whether or not she would benefit from strengthening the vaginal muscles using the Kegel exercises.