Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence With Surface Electromyography–Assisted Biofeedback in Women of Reproductive Age

Management of stress urinary incontinence with surface electromyography-assisted biofeedback in women of reproductive age.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although surgery has been widely accepted as the treatment of choice for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), there has recently been an increased interest in the conservative management of this condition. The aims of this study were to test the ability of a biofeedback-assisted pelvic-floor muscle exercise (PFME) program to affect symptoms of SUI in premenopausal women and...

the biofeedback therapy in patients with stress incontinence urinary

The Biofeedback Therapy in Patients With Stress Incontinence Urinary

I read with great interest the article by Seckiner et al. entitled “The Effect of Biofeedback Therapy on ICIQ-SF Scores and Urodynamic Parameters in Patients with Stress Urinary Incontinence” (1). The authors concluded that biofeedback therapy is capable of decreasing ICIQSF scores, that is, therapy improves symptoms and the impact of urinary incontinence on the patients’ quality of life. Dumou...

Conservative Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women

Although behavioral and surgical therapies are currently the mainstay of treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI), medications to treat SUI may possibly become first-line therapy. Currently, there are no medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration that are indicated for SUI. However, results are becoming available on duloxetine, an oral medication that appears to be clinically...

Pelvic floor exercises with biofeedback for stress urinary incontinence.

OBJECTIVE Prospective study to objectively evaluate the benefits of pelvic floor strengthening exercises associated to biofeedback for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen patients diagnosed with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were selected for this study. All patients underwent a pelvic floor training associated to biofeedback for 12 consecutive wee...