title: [Rehabilitation in female stress urinary incontinence].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Uroginecología, Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España.
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Soltero González
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Campoy Martínez
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barrero Candau
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Medrano Sánchez
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérez Pérez
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Pérez
mesh_terms: 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*