Tag: urinary incontinence

Analysis of selected risk factors and the level of awareness of urinary incontinence in women

Paulina Handzlik-Waszkiewicz, Kinga Duszka


Paulina Handzlik-Waszkiewicz, Kinga Duszka – Analysis of selected risk factors and the level of awareness of urinary incontinence in women. Fizjoterapia Polska 2022; 22(2); 70-80

Abstract
Objective. Research objective was to analyse selected risk factors for the incidence of urinary incontinence in a randomly selected group of women, as well as the frequency of accompanying symptoms. The level of consciousness and behaviour of women who experienced urinary incontinence were also analysed.
Material and methods. The survey covered 146 women aged 20 to 79, at the day rehabilitation ward at Professor Bogusław Frańczuk’s Lesser Poland Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Hospital in Krakow. The authors’ questionnaire containing 32 questions and the Oswestry Disability Questionnaire (ODI) were used for the research.
Results. There was a statistically significant correlation between the incidence of urinary incontinence and age in the respondents. In the youngest age group, the mean for the declared urinary incontinence was 46.5, while in the older groups it was over 80. The results also indicate a significant increase in pain in the lumbar spine in the group that experienced urinary incontinence (mean = 20.93) in relation to the rest of the respondents (mean = 12.83).
Conclusions. The problem of incontinence is age dependent, but it is common in all age groups. There is a relationship between the incidence of urinary incontinence and the method of giving birth and perinatal factors. It has also been found that women experiencing urinary incontinence episodes suffer from more pain. The vast majority of women who experience urinary incontinence do not undertake any treatment attempts.
Key words:
urinary incontinence, pelvic floor muscles, incontinence
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Factors determining the knowledge of women aged 30-40 from the Rzeszów poviat about urinary incontinence

Ewa Puszczałowska-Lizis, Paweł Rychter, Marcin Wilczyński, Monika Banek


Ewa Puszczałowska-Lizis, Paweł Rychter, Marcin Wilczyński, Monika Banek – Factors determining the knowledge of women aged 30-40 from the Rzeszów poviat about urinary incontinence. Fizjoterapia Polska 2022; 22(1); 198-206

Abstract
Introduction. Urinary incontinence is any incident of uncontrolled leakage of urine from the urethra, regardless of the cause. The aim of the study was to assess the dependencies of se-lected factors with the level of knowledge about urinary incontinence in women.
Material and methods. The diagnostic survey using the author’s questionnaire covered 207 women aged 30 to 40 from the Rzeszów poviat, The data were analyzed based on Pearson’s Chi-square test (χ2).
Results. A statistically significant dependence was found between the level of education and the level of knowledge about urinary incontinence (p = 0.001).
Conclusions. Women with higher education have more knowledge about urinary incontinence than women with secondary and vocational education. Educational activities should be aimed mainly at women with secondary and vocational education. The elimination of risk factors should be encouraged, as well as the necessity of early diagnosis of urinary incontinence and immediate treatment.
Key words:
pelvic floor, urinary incontinence, prophylaxis, diagnostics, therapy
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The impact of magnetostimulation on the level of urinary incontinence among women after menopause

Robert Kowalski, Joanna Kałuża-Pawłowska, Marek Kiljański

Robert Kowalski, Joanna Kałuża-Pawłowska, Marek Kiljański – The impact of magnetostimulation on the level of urinary incontinence among women after menopause. Fizjoterapia Polska 2021; 21(5); 58-69

Abstract
Urinary incontinence (UI) is according to ICS definition “every uncontrolled urine loss”. Among the broadly understood definition, there are different types of UI: effort, urgent, from overflow, mixed, transitional, bedwetting and other types of UI. The most common type from mentioned is the effort urinary incontinence and the mixed one. Due to the complex nature of UI problem, there are many methods of diagnosis and treatment of incontinence. In conservative treatment, pelvic floor muscle exercises, physical therapy (including magnetic field) and behavioral therapy are commonly used.  The aim of the study.  The aim of work is to evaluate the impact of magnetostimulation and pelvic floor muscle exercises on the level of urinary incontinence among women after menopause. Material and methodology.  The research was conducted among 30 women at the age of 45–67 years old (average ± 56) who were treated because of UI in The Independent Public Health Care Centre named Primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Sieradz in the rehabilitation ward. The patients were divided into two groups – 15 people each. In the first group participants were tested by magnetostimulation and they were doing pelvic floor muscle exercises. In the second group they were only doing pelvic floor muscle exercises.The patients have been surveyed twice, before and after 3 weeks therapy. In the study two different questionnaires (A and B) were used. They were based on Gaudenza questionnaire. Results. According to the analysis of survey data, these are the following results. In the first group improvement concerned: reduction in the frequency of UI episodes and frequency of urination, less amount of „urine loss” and UI intensity based on daily physical acivity, extending the time of the ability to control urination and better quality of life tested women. In the second group an improvement has been noticed according to subjective patient’s feelings. All data analysis results from questionnaires were not statistically significant.
Conclusions. From the analysis of the results, the following conclusions have been drawn: 1. Combination therapy of magnetostimulation with pelvic floor exercises causes more beneficial effect than applying only exercises. 2. Subjective assessment of participants on how to improve ailments connected with UI, speaks in favour of therapy with the use of magnetic field stimulation. 3. The most common type of incontinence amoung tested women after menopause was the effort one. 4. Therapy with 3–weeks programme of magnetic field stimulation increases the level of satisfaction and improves well-being of poople with UI.
Key words:
urinary incontinence, magnetostimulation, menopause, physiotherapy
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Functional stimulation of perineal muscles in women with urinary incontinence after gynecological surgery and its effect on quality of life changes

Krystyna Garstka-Namysł, Grzegorz Henryk Bręborowicz, Łucja Pilaczyńska-Szcześniak, Juliusz Huber, Stefan Sajdak, Magdalena Pisarska, Kamila Witczak, Łukasz Sroka, Alicja Witkowska

Krystyna Garstka-Namysł, Grzegorz Henryk Bręborowicz, Łucja Pilaczyńska-Szcześniak, Juliusz Huber, Stefan Sajdak, Magdalena Pisarska, Kamila Witczak, Łukasz Sroka, Alicja Witkowska – Functional stimulation of perineal muscles in women with urinary incontinence after gynecological surgery and its effect on quality of life changes. Fizjoterapia Polska 2007; 7(2), 124-132

Abstract

Background. Urinary incontinence and disturbances of perineal muscle and nerve activity in women after gynecological surgery have a major influence on the patients’ quality of life. Using global EMG data, it is possible to customize parameters for spinal FES and perineal EMS treatments and to objectively assess treatment outcomes. Material and methods. 15 women after gynecological surgery with disturbances of micturition underwent gynecological and urodynamic assessments, sonography, global EMG with a vaginal probe and magnetic field-induced motor evoked potentials (MEP) tests. The parameters for EMS and FES were customised on the basis of those diagnostic tests and the treatments were self-administered by patients for 2 months. Quality of life changes were assessed with Prof. Kowalik’s quality of life assessment scale at baseline and at the end of the treatment. Results. In 12 patients, EMG and MEP recordings revealed that the disturbances were caused by axonal degeneration of motor fibres rather than by impaired impulsation at the spinal centre level. Mean values of perineal muscle resting potentials were 2.52 pV before and 1.87 pV after treatment. Contraction strength rose from 14.7 pV to 16.9 pV The self-reported 20-domain quality of life scale showed increased current and future-oriented satisfaction with life. Conclusions. A two-month cycle of FES and EMS improved motor unit function at maximum contraction. MEP studies revealed improved conduction from spinal motor centres to muscles, especially if EMS of perineal muscles had been supplemented with lumbo-sacral FES.

Key words:

urinary incontinence, spinal functional electrical stimulation (FES), surface electromyography, ETS and EMG biofeedback, perineal muscles, quality of life

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Woman urinary incontinence – diagnostic and conservative treatment making by physiotherapist

Magdalena Ptak, Iwona Rotter, Hanna Mosiejczuk, Agnieszka Turoń, Agnieszka Brodowska, Jolanta Nawrocka-Rutkowska

M. Ptak, I. Rotter, H. Mosiejczuk, A. Turoń, A. Brodowska, J. Nawrocka-Rutkowska – Woman urinary incontinence – diagnostic and conservative treatment making by physiotherapist. FP 2016;16(3);118-123

Abstract
Introduction.
Urinary incontinence is a problem recognized by World Health Organization as a social disease. The standards of the International Continence Society (ICS), gynecological and urological societies I and II degree UI begins with conservative treatment conducted by a physiotherapist.
Aim.
The aim of this work is to emphasize the role and possibility of additional diagnosis carried out by physiotherapist.
Conclusions.
Conservative treatment with available technologies, devices, questionnaires allows wide possibilities of insightful approach to the topic which is woman urinary incontinence.

Key words:
urinary incontinence, presumptive diagnosis, conservative treatment, physiotherapy

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