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High-Impact Exercises Associated with an Increased Risk of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Sports Medicine Rehabilitation (J Soo Hoo and B Liem, Section Editors)
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Abstract

Purpose of Review

To determine the association of risk of performing impact sports and suffer from stress incontinence.

Recent Findings

There have been studies showing an association between high-intensity physical activity such as crossfit and the appearance of urinary incontinence.

Summary

According to this systematic review, we found 1933 studies with the search strategies. We removed 50 duplicated records. We finally included three studies in the quantitative synthesis. A total of 1018 female participants were included in the studies. Six hundred and thirty-one women performed high-impact exercise and 387 belonged to low-impact activities group. We found an OR of 2.27 95% CI (1.49 to 3.46), I2 9%, which favors an association between high-impact sports and urinary incontinence. As a conclusion, according to our results, high-impact sports increase the risk of urinary incontinence compared with low-impact sports.

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    Herney Andrés García-Perdomo, Antonio José Uribe Bayona & Bryan David Zamora Segura

  2. Division of Urology/Urooncology. Department of Surgery. School of Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

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HAGP, AJUB, and BDZS contributed to the design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the results, and to the writing of the manuscript.

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García-Perdomo, H.A., Uribe Bayona, A.J. & Zamora Segura, B.D. High-Impact Exercises Associated with an Increased Risk of Stress Urinary Incontinence: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Curr Phys Med Rehabil Rep 10, 206–215 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40141-022-00360-9

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