[Rehabilitation in female stress urinary incontinence].
OBJECTIVE
To know the results of a pelvic floor muscle training program in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.


METHODS
Information phase: patient is informed about the disease, her anatomy, the objectives to be reached and how to perform the exercises. Treatment phase: 6 weeks of visual and auditory biofeedback assisted pelvic floor exercises to develop the pelvic floor muscles. Follow-up phase: one, 3, 6 month and 1 year visits with control for muscle evolution, motivation reinforcement and improvement of the symptoms.


RESULTS
412 Women underwent pelvic floor rehabilitation in a 4 year period, 45.9% were cured, 38.8% improved and 15.3% were treatment failures.


CONCLUSIONS
Pelvic floor rehabilitation can cure female urinary stress incontinence and diminishes the number of surgical procedures and hospital costs in the treatment of urinary incontinence.
Soltero González
Alfredo
A
Unidad de Uroginecología, Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España.
Campoy Martínez
Pedro
P
Barrero Candau
Rafael
R
Medrano Sánchez
Esther
E
Pérez Pérez
Manuel
M
Rodríguez Pérez
Antonio
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017773:Pelvic Floor / Q000503:physiopathology; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*