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Pelvic-Floor Rehabilitation, Part 2 : Pelvic-Floor Reeducation With Interferential Currents and Exercise in the Treatment of Genuine Stress Incontinence in Postpartum Women : A Cohort Study
(1995-12)
Background and Purpose. This descriptive cohort study investigated a physical therapy program of pelvic-floor neuromuscular electrostimulation (NMES) combined with exercises, with the aim of developing a simple, inexpensive, ...
Randomized clinical trial of multimodal physiotherapy treatment compared to overnight lidocaine ointment in women with provoked vestibulodynia: Design and methods
(2016-01-30)
Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a highly prevalent and debilitating condition yet its management relies mainly
on non-empirically validated interventions. Among the many causes of PVD, there is growing evidence that ...
Effects of pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation on PFM function and morphology in older women
(2013-11)
Aims
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a pelvic floor muscle (PFM) rehabilitation program on incontinence symptoms, PFM function, and morphology in older women with SUI.
Methods
Women 60 years old ...
Virtual reality rehabilitation as a treatment approach for older women with mixed urinary incontinence : a feasibility study
(2015-03)
Background
Motivated patients are more likely to adhere to treatment resulting in better outcomes. Virtual reality
rehabilitation (VRR) is a treatment approach that includes video gaming to enhance motivation and ...
Physical therapy for urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or low bone density : a randomized controlled trial
(2016-03)
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of 12 weekly physical therapy sessions for urinary incontinence (UI) compared with a control intervention, for reducing the number of UI episodes measured with the 7-day bladder diary, ...
Test-retest reliability of clitoral blood flow measurements using color Doppler ultrasonography at rest and after a pelvic floor contraction task in healthy adult women
(Wiley, 2018-06-28)
Aims: Test-retest reliability assessment of the dorsal clitoral artery's blood flow at rest and
after muscle activation has never been documented. If this outcome measure is to be used
in conditions impeding vascularity, ...
Physiotherapy for persistent postnatal stress urinary incontinence : a randomized controlled trial
(2004-09)
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of multimodal supervised physiotherapy programs with the absence of treatment among women with persistent postnatal stress urinary incontinence.
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Postnatal pelvic floor muscle training for preventing and treating urinary incontinence : where do we stand?
(2006-10)
Purpose of review: Postnatal pelvic floor muscle training aims to rehabilitate the pelvic floor muscles. To be effective, a certain exercise dosage must be respected. Recent trials evaluated the effect of different programs ...
Incontinence : stress urinary incontinence treatment—surgery first?
(2014-01)
A randomized trial involving 460 women with stress urinary incontinence compared physiotherapy with midurethral-sling surgery. We question whether the results, showing higher rates of improvement and cure for surgery than ...
Effects of radiation therapy on the structure and function of the pelvic floor muscles of patients with cancer in the pelvic area : a systematic review
(2016-04)
Purpose
Radiation therapy (RT) is often recommended in the treatment of pelvic cancers. Following RT, a high prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunctions (urinary incontinence, dyspareunia, and fecal incontinence) is reported. ...