title: [Critical evaluation of P-C test parameters in screening pelvic musculature activity].
abstract: The P-C test was performed on 296 unselected women to verify if its parameters were all useful for a screening program: the 0-5 contraction strength score resulted unnecessarily too elaborated, a linear relationship was always seen between muscular endurance and contraction strength, muscular exhaustion was never detected during the testing, antagonist muscular synergies were observed only in some of the patients with low contraction strength score; marked agonist synergies were never detected. For screening purpose therefore could be sufficient to evaluate only the contraction strength identifying three levels of its activity: no activity, low activity, good activity.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Urologia Ginecologica, Istituto di Ginecologia dell'Università di Palermo.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rubino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagliavia
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Farruggia
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Navarra
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D010388:Pelvis / Q000502:physiology*
vernacular_title: Valutazione critica dei parametri del P-C test nello screening dell'attività della muscolatura pelvica.