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- Title
A comparative study of the therapeutic effect of pelvic floor exercises and perineometer among women with urinary stress incontinence.
- Authors
Vairajothi, K.; Chitra, T.V.; Baranitharan, R.; Mahalakshmi, V.
- Abstract
Background Stress urinary incontinence is responsible for approximately 50% of the symptoms of urinary incontinence in women between 25 and 49 years of age. Though surgery has been widely accepted as the treatment choice for this condition, there has recently been an increased interest in the conservative management. There is a need to study effect of biofeedback assisted pelvic floor muscle exercise in women with urinary stress incontinence with a limited number of treatment sessions. Objective To improve pelvic floor muscle strength. To compare the effect of Perineometer with pelvic floor exercise training versus pelvic floor exercise alone in women with urinary stress incontinence. To reduce the severity of urinary stress incontinence. Methodology Quasi experimental design Pre test post test with a comparison group was used. 20 women with stress urinary incontinence (Group A - Perineometer with pelvic floor exercise and Group B - pelvic floor exercise alone) using convenient sampling method were selected. Pre and post test data including the digital evaluation of pelvic floor muscle strength, perineometer pressure readings & severity index were taken and were statistically evaluated. Result There was a significant difference in pelvic floor muscle strength ('t' value for digital evaluation and Perineometer were 6.14 and 5.12 respectively; p< 0.001). There was a significant improvement in the severity of incontinence within the groups, with mean difference of 2.5 and 1.5 for Group A and respectively. There was no statistically significant improvement of Severity index score between the groups ('t' value was 1.726 ; p>0.05). Conclusion Perineometer training along with pelvic floor exercises has significant effect in improving the pelvic floor muscle strength than pelvic floor exercises alone in women with urinary stress incontinence thereby promoting continence.
- Subjects
PELVIC floor; EXERCISE; URINARY stress incontinence; MANOMETERS; CONVENIENCE sampling (Statistics); MUSCLE strength; BIOFEEDBACK training
- Publication
Indian Journal of Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0973-5674
- Publication type
Article