INTRODUCTION This case report describes the successful treatment of an adolescent female suffering daily stress and occasional total urinary incontinence with applied kinesiology methods and chiropractic manipulative therapy. PATIENT PRESENTATION A 13-year-old female developed unpredictable urinary incontinence and right hip pain immediately following emergency open appendectomy surgery. The ...

BACKGROUND In the urinary incontinence guidelines that are issued by the Dutch College of General Practitioners, treatment guidelines are related to the type of incontinence. It is unknown whether treatment of urinary incontinence in general practice complies with these guidelines. OBJECTIVE To describe treatment patterns and costs of urinary incontinence. METHODS The source population for ...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to investigate prevalence of urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum and to study how continence status during pregnancy and mode of delivery influence urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum in primiparous women. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Pregnant women attending routine ultrasound examination were recruited to the Norwegian Mother and...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcomes of tension-free vaginal tape in the treatment of primary versus recurrent genuine stress urinary incontinence. METHODS A retrospective, multicenter study of 245 consecutive women who were treated with tension-free vaginal tape for genuine stress urinary incontinence (157 for primary and 88 for recurrent genuine stress urinary incontinence) over a 27-month pe...

Urinary incontinence is a common condition affecting 20 to 40% of older women.1 The two most common types of urinary incontinence are stress incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine resulting from increased abdominal pressures (such as with a cough or Valsalva’s maneuver), and urge incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine after an unwanted contraction of the detrusor muscle.2 Some patient...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of urinary incontinence and other urinary tract symptoms, the use of incontinence aids and how urinary incontinence influences daily life in two 85/86-year-old cohorts born 10 years apart. There were no statistically significant differences between the two cohorts except for the use of incontinence aids, where 23% of women born in 1901/1902 and...

We report a case and surgical technique of successful sling suspension of insufficient efferent limb of continent urinary reservoir, which has occurred urinary incontinence. A 64-year-old male, who received radical cystectomy with continent urinary reservoir, had been suffered urinary incontinence from the reservoir about one year after surgery. Various procedures, such as the repair of the eff...

[Purpose] To assess lower urinary tract symptoms in different stages of menopause and the quality of life of females with incontinence. [Subjects and Methods] The sample consisted of 302 females, aged between 40 and 56 years, divided into three groups: PRE (n= 81), PERI (n= 108) and POST (n= 113). This was a cross-sectional, analytical, observational study. Data were collected by assessment cha...

Whether there is any association between urinary incontinence and menopause is the subject of debate, partly due to the fact it is difficult to tell the difference between the effects of menopause and those of ageing. For some time it was hoped that hormonal treatment for menopause would be beneficial for urinary incontinence because there are hormonal receptors in the urinary tract. The goal o...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the possible association between parity, as indicated by the number of childbirths, and prevalence of urinary incontinence in an adult female population sample. DESIGN AND SETTING A sample of 3114 women aged 30-59 years was selected at random from the population of Aarhus, Denmark, and mailed a self administered questionnaire on urinary incontinence ...