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- Title
Is there a difference in balance between continent and incontinent women?
- Authors
de Faria, Kelly Christina; Oliveira, Iraides Moraes; José Vaz, Luciene Aparecida; Pereira, Adriano Alves
- Abstract
Introduction: Urinary incontinence is defined as any involuntary loss of urine. An imbalance in the transmission of forces between the bladder and urethra, associated with deficient support of the pelvic floor muscles, contributes to an alteration in balance in women. Objective: To compare balance between continent and incontinent women. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with 13 women divided into incontinent (age: 41.50 ± 9.13 years) and continent (age: 35.29 ± 4.99 years) groups. Balance assessments were performed using a force platform and electromyography: standing, with eyes open (BI&lowbar;OA); standing, with eyes closed (BI&lowbar;OF); standing on foam, with eyes open (ESP&lowbar;OA) and closed (ESP&lowbar;OF); and standing with unipedal support, with eyes open (UNI&lowbar;OA). Statistical analysis was initiated after resampling of the original data using the bootstrap technique, with the α value set at 5% (p < 0.05). Results: In the BI&lowbar;OA task, no significant differences were found between the groups. In the BI&lowbar;OF task, incontinent women showed greater displacement in the anteroposterior axis (p < 0.001), and continent women showed greater displacement in the mediolateral axis (p = 0.008). In the ESP&lowbar;OA task, incontinent women showed greater displacement in both the COP&lowbar;X (p = 0.003) and COP&lowbar;Y (p = 0.001) axes; in the ESP&lowbar;OF task, continent women showed greater displacement in the COP&lowbar;X (p < 0.001) axis. In the UNI&lowbar;OA task, greater anteroposterior displacement was observed among incontinent women (p = 0.008). Conclusion: Continent women showed greater displacement in the mediolateral axis in the tasks with eyes closed, and incontinent women showed greater displacement in the anteroposterior axis in the BI&lowbar;OF, ESP&lowbar;OA, and UNI&lowbar;OA tasks.
- Subjects
RECTUS femoris muscles; POSTURAL balance; CROSS-sectional method; MUSCLES; QUANTITATIVE research; MANN Whitney U Test; COMPARATIVE studies; T-test (Statistics); URINARY incontinence; INCONTINENCE management; PELVIC floor; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; WOMEN'S health
- Publication
Fisioterapia em Movimento, 2023, Vol 36, p1
- ISSN
0103-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/fm.2023.36115