Objective: The problem of urinary incontinence affects half the adult female population, impacting adversely on their comfort life and significantly hindering ordinary activities (laughing, sneezing, coughing, physical activity); it also quality sexual life. Physiotherapy is an increasingly common method for conservative treatment genital static disorders stress incontinence. Mechanism: In this...

Background Urinary Incontinence is a common condition defined as an involuntary leakage of urine. Women are twice as likely to be affected as men, and prevalence increases with age. The severity of incontinence affects quality of life and treatment decisions. The types of urinary incontinence include stress, urge, overflow, functional, and postprostatectomy incontinence. Nonsurgical treatment o...

objective: this study evaluated  the efficacy and safety of  the bulbourethral sling in male urinary incontinence. materials and methods: this case series was conducted in   imam khomeini hospital-tehran , between april 2001 to december 2006. bulbourethral sling was implanted in 7  patients with stress urinary incontinence after prostate surgery. the patients were monitored and evaluated in a p...

This study compared the effectiveness of biofeedback on pubococcygeal muscle strengthening and simple urinary stress incontinence in older and younger women. Women aged 55 years and older and women younger than 55 years of age were taught Kegel exercises, using biofeedback, for the treatment of simple urinary stress incontinence. Eighty percent of the younger group and 67% of the older group el...

Endoscopic Pen-urethral Teflon injection offers a simple form of treatment with a low morbidity rate for some patients with urinary incontinence. It is particularly useful in patients with stress incontinence, post-prostatectomy incontinence and in some cases of neuropathic incontinence. Findings in a group of ten patients who underwent this technique are presented. Seventy percent of patients ...

Millions of people in the world suffer from urinary incontinence and overactive bladder with the major causes for the symptoms being stress, urge, overflow and functional incontinence. For a more effective treatment of these ailments, a detailed understanding of the urinary flow dynamics is required. This challenging task is not easy to achieve due to the complexity of the problem and the lack ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the nature of postprostatectomy urinary incontinence, determine how men manage postsurgery urinary incontinence, identify men's perceptions of adequacy of preoperative counseling, and identify men's expectations regarding the probability of postsurgery incontinence. DESIGN Survey. SETTING United States. SAMPLE Members of US TOO International, who experienced...

OBJECTIVE to describe the prevalence and impact on quality of life of urinary incontinence in a population-based cohort of older community-dwelling Australian men. SUBJECTS the population comprised 1,705 men aged >or=70 years participating in the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project, a population-based study of urban older Australian men. METHODS data were collected between January 2005...

OBJECTIVE To translate and validate the Michigan Incontinence Severity Index (M-ISI) for its use in Turkish-speaking women with urinary incontinence. METHODS The translation and cross-cultural adaptation were based on international guidelines. Content validity by content validity ratio/content validity index, internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha, test-retest reliability by Pearson's corre...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to determine the incidence and the risk factors of the urinary incontinence in women visiting the Health Family Center. METHODS 430 women, who visited three Family Health Centers in the city center of Erzurum for any reason between 25 November and 20 January 2016, were included in this study without any sampling. The data were collected by using the f...