[Pelvic floor rehabilitation as treatment of female urinary incontinence. Our experience].
We refer herein on a simple program of rehabilitation that may be a first approach the treatment of, U.S.I. In our urodynamic service, we treated 38 female patients, affected by this condition, aged between 37-73 years. The same procedure was applied to all the patients, consisting of 10 seances twice weekly, during which we subjected the patients to biofeedback and vaginal electrostimulation of 50 Hz frequency. The results after 3 months were: 38% restored to normal, 51% improved, 11% unchanged; after 1 year were: 27% restored to normal, 49% improved, the remaining unchanged. As a whole, perineal rehabilitation by this technique can be curative in selected cases and, should it be necessary, can be repeated; its advantages are simplicity, low cost and lack of collateral effects. Motivation and compliance on the part of the patients are, anyhow, the chief factor of success. Moreover, the procedure does not preclude alternative treatments. It is suitable to chose cases where surgery is not so, or else is ill-accepted or has failed.
Sebastio
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Divisione di Urologia, Azienda Ospedaliera di Parma. nsebastio@hotmail.com
Ferri
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Meli
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Simonazzi
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Incarbone
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Cortellini
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017773:Pelvic Floor; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000534:rehabilitation*