Espino VG, de la Parra MME, Carvajal GR, Castillo PJ, Juárez CF

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Urinary incontinence is a very common problem affecting 17 to 40% of women over 60 years. Physiotherapy of the pelvic floor is an economic and the effective alternative with low morbility for the treatment urinary incontinence. Method and materials: 23 patients were managed with physiotherapy of the pelvic floor, uncoordinated miction (five), urinary stress incontinence (four), urinary urge incontinence (nine) and mixed urinary incontinence (five). The management was done via biofeedback, inhibitory electrostimulation, enforcement electrostimulation and or both. Results: All the patients refer a subjective improvement, being this 74% for urinary stress incontinence, 67.85% for urinary urge incontinence, 66% for mixed urinary incontinence and 59.8% for uncoordinated miction, all the parameters evaluated in an objective manner presented improvement. Not one patient presented complications such as irritation or vaginal infection. Conclusions: Rehabilitation of the pelvic floor represents a good alternative in the initial management in the patient with urinary incontinence, taking this alternative as the first line in the treatment of urinary stress incontinence, giving that almost all the patients show an important improvement in there sintoms.

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