Effects of Pelvic Floor Exercises in Middle Aged Women with a History of Naı̈ve Urinary Incontinence:

Gunnarsson, Marianne; Teleman, Pia; Mattiasson, Anders; Lidfeldt, Jonas; Nerbrand, Christina; Samsioe, Göran

doi:10.1016/s0302-2838(02)00067-2

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“…This supports the results of earlier studies. [10][11][12][13] Our results also indicated that surface EMG is a reliable method to evaluate PFM activity from 1 month to another, which often is the case in clinical evaluations.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…16,21 The study of Glazer et al 10 includes both asymptomatic women and women with pelvic floor dysfunction and shows a level of reliability of r ¼ 0.86. Gunnarsson et al 11,12 presents reliability levels of r ¼ 0.9 for healthy subjects but a lower test-retest correlation for incontinent women above 50 years of age, r ¼ 0.69. In the current study only continent young women were included.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…[10][11][12]14 ICC is however the preferred method of assessing reliability. 16,21 The study of Glazer et al 10 includes both asymptomatic women and women with pelvic floor dysfunction and shows a level of reliability of r ¼ 0.86.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…10 -13 In contrast to these four studies [10][11][12][13] Thorp et al 14 showed lacking degree of reliability. In neither of the studies above the women's ability to perform correct PFM contractions was controlled.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Retest reliability of surface electromyography on the pelvic floor muscles

Grape

Dedering

Jonasson

2009

Neurourology and Urodynamics

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confidence: 63%

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confidence: 98%

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Retest reliability of surface electromyography on the pelvic floor muscles

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Jonasson

2009

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“…The justification for using PFMT is that PFM contraction inhibits detrusor contraction, thus improving the symptoms of detrusor overactivity. 10 Accordingly, our main question is: Does PFMT alone result in improved symptoms of detrusor overactivity? Secondarily, we assessed the PFM function and the quality of life of women with OAB symptoms.…”

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Pelvic floor muscle training for overactive bladder symptoms – A prospective study

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Sartori

Girão

et al. 2017

Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras.

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Introduction: Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) involves the contraction of the puborectal, anal sphincter and external urethral muscles, inhibiting the detrusor contraction, what justify its use in the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms. Objective: To verify the effects of isolated PFMT on the symptoms of OAB. Method: Prospective clinical trial with 27 women with mixed urinary incontinence (MUI), with predominance of OAB symptoms and loss ≥ 2 g in the pad test. It was evaluated: pelvic floor muscles (PFMs) function (digital palpation and manometry); urinary symptoms (nocturia, frequency and urinary loss); degree of discomfort of OAB symptoms; and quality of life (Incontinence Quality-ofLife Questionnaire [I-QoL]). The PFMT program consisted of 24 outpatient sessions (2x/week + home PFMT). The Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests (with a significance level of 5%) were used to analyse the data. Results: There was a significant improvement of the urinary symptoms to the pad test (5.8±9.7, p<0.001), urinary loss (0.7±1.1, p=0.005) and nocturia (0.8±0.9, p=0.011). Reduction in the degree of discomfort of urinary symptoms was observed according to OAB-V8 questionnaire (10.0±7.7, p=0.001). There were also significant results in PFMs function: Oxford (3.6±0.9, p=0.001), endurance (5.2±1.8, p<0.001), fast (8.9±1.5, p<0.001) and manometry (26.6±15.8, p=0.003).In addition, quality of life had a significant improvement in the three domains evaluated by I-QoL. Conclusion: The PFMT without any additional guidelines improves the symptomatology, the function of PFMs and the quality of life of women with OAB symptoms.

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