Physiotherapy for stress urinary incontinence.

Surgery versus physiotherapy for stress urinary incontinence.

BACKGROUND Physiotherapy involving pelvic-floor muscle training is advocated as first-line treatment for stress urinary incontinence; midurethral-sling surgery is generally recommended when physiotherapy is unsuccessful. Data are lacking from randomized trials comparing these two options as initial therapy. METHODS We performed a multicenter, randomized trial to compare physiotherapy and midu...

Physiotherapy for Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Review Article

[Purpose] This review article is designed to expose physiotherapists to a physiotherapy assessment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and the treatment and possibly preventive roles that they might play for women with SUI. Specifically, the goal of this article is to provide an understanding of pelvic floor muscle function and the implications that this function has for physiotherapy treatmen...

Physiotherapy for stress urinary incontinence: a national survey.

OBJECTIVE To study the physiotherapeutic treatment of urinary stress incontinence in England. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING All 192 English district health authorities. SUBJECTS One physiotherapist from each district who was primarily concerned with urinary incontinence. A consensus view was requested. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Responses to questionnaire and analysis of a visu...

Refractory Stress Urinary Incontinence

Efficacy of Physiotherapy for Urinary Incontinence following Prostate Cancer Surgery

The study enrolled 81 with urinary incontinence following radical prostate-only prostatectomy for prostatic carcinoma. The patients were divided into two groups. The patients in Group I were additionally subdivided into two subgroups with respect to the physiotherapeutic method used. The patients of subgroup IA received a rehabilitation program consisting of three parts. The patients of subgrou...