Abstract
Urinary Incontinence (UI) is a prevalent condition among active women, especially in young nulliparous athletes. However, up to now, only a few studies conducted pelvic floor muscles training (PFMT) in athletes with UI. So, the present study evaluated the effect of a comprehensive PFMT protocol on UI symptoms in young nulliparous athletes using biomechanical models. This was a experimental and longitudinal pre and post-test evaluations study with 9 young nulliparous athletes divided in 2 intervention groups: one group had supervision of a physiotherapist and another does not. The participants answered the questionnaires: CONTILIFE to investigate the quality of life, the Self-efficacy Scale of Broome to evaluate the capacity of pelvic floor muscles (PFM) contraction, the IPAQ-SF to quantify the physical activity level and socio-demographic characteristics, to characterize the sample. Additionally, they were clinically assessed by Pad-test to quantify urine loss and by the Oxford Grading Scale and Perineometry to evaluate the strength of PFM contraction. It was used the T-test for two independent samples and the Manny-Whitney test to compare the groups, as well as the Spearman Correlation to correlational analysis. The level of significance was p ≤ 0.05. Seven athletes concluded the 8 weeks-protocol. The protocol shown to be effective in reduce the loss of urine. Further research is necessary to determine the specific PFMT protocol in women that perform exercise.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge to the funding by CNPq- from Brazil government and the project Pest-OE/EME/LA0022/2013 and also to the project “Biomechanics: contributions to the healthcare”, reference NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000035 co-financed by Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (ON.2—O Novo Norte), through the Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER).
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Sousa, M. et al. (2015). Effects of a Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Nulliparous Athletes with Urinary Incontinence: Biomechanical Models Protocol. In: Tavares, J., Natal Jorge, R. (eds) Computational and Experimental Biomedical Sciences: Methods and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15799-3_6
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