Is home‐based pelvic floor muscle training effective in treatment of urinary incontinence after birth in primiparous women? A randomized controlled trial

Åhlund, Susanne; Nordgren, Birgitta; Wilander, Eva-Lotta; Wiklund, Ingela; Fridén, Cecilia

doi:10.1111/aogs.12173

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“…A Swedish study by Alhund et al on home based PFMEs has shown very few drop outs from their exercise programme which is in contrast to the results of our study as majority of the participants dropped out from our study because of non adherence to recommended exercises [16].…”

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Are Home Based Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFMES) Effective in Prevention of Stress Urinary Incontinence During Pregnancy? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Habib¹,

Sohail²,

Khan³

2018

Natl. j. health sci.

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Objectives: To determine effectiveness of 8 weeks home based PFMEs in the prevention of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) during pregnancy and to see how many women were consistent with them. Materials And Methods:This randomized controlled trial was conducted in the outpatient department (OPD) of Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) hospital, Islamabad during Nov, 2017 to Jan,2018. After fulfilling the inclusion/exclusion criteria, women were randomly divided into two groups. One group learned to perform PFMEs. A telephonic survey was conducted after 8 weeks and all the women in the study were asked about presence/absence of perceived urinary incontinence. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics.Results: A total of 120 women were randomized into the study. Amongst those who were followed, 63.4% from intervention group didn't adhere to PFMEs and dropped out from study. A total of 42 women were analysed from both groups. Mean age was 25+-3 years and mean gestational age was 23+-4 weeks. Thirty nine percent were nullipara. Amongst women in the intervention group, majority were still continent after 8 weeks of PFMEs (86.6%) and only few experienced SUI (13.4%). However, when these women were matched with controls, fewer women as compared to intervention group were continent after 8 weeks (55.6%). Conclusion:Home based pelvic floor muscle exercises are very effective in prevention of stress urinary incontinence in only highly motivated patients.

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Are Home Based Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFMES) Effective in Prevention of Stress Urinary Incontinence During Pregnancy? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Habib¹,

Sohail²,

Khan³

2018

Natl. j. health sci.

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“…A randomized controlled trail including100 primiparous women indicate that home-based pelvic floor muscle training is effective [31]. Another study showed that increasing awareness of pelvic floor muscle re-training in postpartum women with a weakened PFM may potentially reduce SUI and, as result, increase QoL [32].…”

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Postpartum stress urinary incontinence, is it related to vaginal delivery?

Wang

Ghoniem

2017

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

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“…23 In our setup we don't have the facility of trained physiotherapist, hence home-based exercises with intermittent supervision was done.…”

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Pelvic floor exercises - a clinical study

Pal

2014

Asian J Med Sci

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Objective: To assess the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercise. Materials and methods: Hundred (100) patients of pelvic organ prolapse (POP), stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and overactive bladder (OAB) were included. They were advised pelvic floor exercise in stepwise incremental manner. Each time exercise comprised of 10 seconds holding up and 10 seconds relaxation. To start with it was 5 times each in the morning, noon, evening and night; making it 20 times per day. Every week 5 times increment. So by 5 th week it was 25 times each in the morning, noon, evening and night; making it 100 times per day. After 6 months patients were assessed by their subjective feeling of improvement and clinical assessment. Results: After 6 months of therapy patients subjective feeling of improvement for POP, SUI and OAB were 73%, 84.1%, 58.3% respectively; though objective assessment did not show this much improvement. Conclusion: Pelvic floor exercise is an easy, effective and non-invasive tool that can be considered as first line therapy for these patients.

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Is home‐based pelvic floor muscle training effective in treatment of urinary incontinence after birth in primiparous women? A randomized controlled trial

Abstract: The results indicate that home-based PFMT is effective. However, written training instructions were as efficient as home-based training with follow up visits every sixth week.

Cited by 52 publications

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Are Home Based Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFMES) Effective in Prevention of Stress Urinary Incontinence During Pregnancy? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Are Home Based Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises (PFMES) Effective in Prevention of Stress Urinary Incontinence During Pregnancy? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Postpartum stress urinary incontinence, is it related to vaginal delivery?

Pelvic floor exercises - a clinical study

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