An appraisal of maximal faradic stimulation of pelvic muscles in the management of female urinary incontinence.
Measurement of the urethral pressure profile enables a group of women to be defined whose urinary incontinence is due to sphincter weakness. In such cases a significant degree of improvement, both symptomatic and in the profile amplitude, follows treatment by maximal faradic stimulation of the pelvic muscle and perineal muscle exercises.
D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000502:physiology*; D010388:Pelvis; D010502:Perineum; D011312:Pressure; D014521:Urethra / Q000503:physiopathology; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000628:therapy*