Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$99,000.00

Award Date

9/02/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

A major impediment to progress during the second stage of labor comes from the resistance of the pelvic floor tissues to stretch. This resistance depends mostly upon the elastic and viscous properties of the pubovisceral muscle and perineal body. The know