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Can quality of life be improved by pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence after ischemic stroke? A randomised, controlled and blinded study

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence after ischemic stroke measured by quality of life (QoL) parameters. Three hundred thirty-nine medical records of stroke patients were searched. Twenty-six subjects were randomised to a Treatment Group or a Control Group in a single blinded, randomised study design. The intervention included 12 weeks of standardised pelvic floor muscle training. The outcome was measured by the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire and The Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ). Twenty-four subjects completed the study. The SF-36 and IIQ did not show significant difference between the two groups. Despite the high prevalence of stroke with urinary incontinence, it is difficult to include these patients in such studies. The samples were too small to detect any significant differences. Development of specific instruments for QoL in stroke patients with urinary incontinence can be recommended.

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Financial support was provided by the following sources: The Foundation of Danish Physiotherapists Research, The Foundation of 1870, Direktør Jacob Madsen og hustrus Fond. The authors are also very grateful to Inge Sørensen, Eva Holmström and Gun Britt Jarnlo, who all contributed to this work.

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    Sigrid Tibaek, Grethe Lindskov & Mette Jensen

  2. Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup, DK-2600, Glostrup, Denmark

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Editorial Comment: This study uses quality of life parameters to evaluate the effect of pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence after ischemic stroke. The authors should be commended on studying this very important group of patients that historically have been difficult to treat. The small study size makes it impossible to draw significant conclusions.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00192-007-0497-3.

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Tibaek, S., Jensen, R., Lindskov, G. et al. Can quality of life be improved by pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence after ischemic stroke? A randomised, controlled and blinded study. Int Urogynecol J 15, 117–123 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-004-1124-1

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