Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on urinary incontinence and quality of life of nulliparous women.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of social isolation due to SARS-CoV-2 on the prevalence and severity of urinary incontinence and how this correlates with the quality of life of the nulliparous women evaluated.

Method: Observational, longitudinal study, carried out from August/2019 to September/2020, at the Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi/RN, with 37 nulliparous women from 18 to 35 years old, who answered the socio-anthropometric assessment, to the Incontinence Severity Index Questionnaire and King's Health Questionnaire, before and during isolation due to SARS-CoV-2. Statistical analysis: Wilcoxon test, and Spearman's correlation coefficient.

Evaluation of the female pelvic floor with infrared thermography: a cross sectional study.

Background: Infrared thermography (IRT) is an easy-to-use, noninvasive and pain-free tool that can be used to evaluate function of the pelvic floor (PF) muscles.

Objective: To analyze vaginal manometry, temperature, and percentage of colors achieved through IRT of the PF muscles at rest and during maximum voluntary contraction. The relationship between PF muscles strength and IRT temperature was also assessed.

Cardiovascular responses to pelvic floor muscle contraction in healthy women: Prospective study.

Objective: Analyze the acute heart rate and blood pressure responses to two protocols of pelvic floor muscles contractions in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Methods: Fifty-four women without pelvic floor muscles disorders were eligible and allocated into two groups: premenopausal and postmenopausal. The groups underwent two protocols and the pelvic floor muscle endurance, heart rate, and blood pressure values were monitored.

Modulating Anxiety and Functional Capacity with Anodal tDCS Over the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Primary Dysmenorrhea.

Background: Primary dysmenorrhea is a common and often debilitating condition affecting 40-90% of menstruating women. This condition reduces functionality, quality of life, and social activities. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been used in many chronic pain syndromes, with evidence of improved pain, functionality, and mood in women with primary dysmenorrhea.

Prevalence and factors associated with chronic back problem in women of childbearing age.

Chronic Back Problem (CBP) is a public health concern. In Brazil, data from the National Health Survey (PNS) estimated 27.0 million people (18.

Disability and functioning of women with low-risk pregnancy: Assessment using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0).

Objective: To evaluate the disability and functioning of women with low-risk pregnancy in the second and third gestational trimesters.

Methods: A longitudinal observational study was conducted from June 5, 2015, to April 30, 2016, in Family Health Units in the city of Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, involving women who were in the second trimester of pregnancy where the pregnancy had been classified as low-risk. A form was designed specifically for the study to collect sociodemographic, urogynecological, and obstetric data.

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial.

Objective: The aim of this trial was to investigate the effects of five consecutive sessions of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the motor cortex (M1) on pain, mood, and physical performance in patients with primary dysmenorrhea (PDM).

Design: This is a double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Subjects: Twenty-two participants with PDM according to the No.

Functioning and disability of premenopausal women with urinary incontinence: An assessment by using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule-WHODAS 2.0.

Aims: To analyze the association between urinary incontinence and disability status in premenopausal women.

Materials And Methods: The study included 120 premenopausal women recruited from six Basic Family Health Units to participate in this study. We assessed sociodemographic, gynecological, and obstetric data by using specific questions.

Effects of two nonpharmacological treatments on the sleep quality of women with nocturia: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The objective was to check the effects of two nonpharmacological treatments on the sleep quality of women with nocturia.

Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial in which 40 women with nocturia were randomized into two groups; one was subjected to tibial nerve stimulation (GTNS) and the other received pelvic floor muscle training associated with behavioral therapy (GPFMT). Both groups were followed for 12 weeks, with one session/week; evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), King's Heath Questionnaire (KHQ), and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS).

Effects of surface and intravaginal electrical stimulation in the treatment of women with stress urinary incontinence: randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of surface electrical stimulation (SES) and to compare them with the effects of the intravaginal electrical stimulation (IVES) in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Study Design: This randomized controlled study included 48 women aged over 50 years, who complained of SUI evaluated according to two structured questions of King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) and who had not previously undergone physical therapy for SUI. The calculation of the sample size estimated a sample of 45 volunteers with a significance level of 5% and statistical power of 90%.

Long-term effects of pelvic floor muscle training with vaginal cone in post-menopausal women with urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled trial.

Aims: The findings are limited about the long-term effects of treatment with vaginal cones in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of vaginal cones and pelvic floor muscle training in post-menopausal women with SUI.

Methods: This randomized controlled trial included 45 post-menopausal women with SUI.

Individual and group pelvic floor muscle training versus no treatment in female stress urinary incontinence: a randomized controlled pilot study.

Objective: To compare the effects of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) performed during group treatment sessions (GT) and individual treatment sessions (IT) to a control group (CG) of women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Hypothesis: The group treatment sessions would have better effects compared to individual treatment sessions.

Study Design: This randomized controlled pilot study included women aged over 18 years, who complained of urinary leakage on stress and who had not undergone physical therapy for SUI before.

[Translation and validation into Portuguese of a questionnaire to evaluate the severity of urinary incontinence].

Purpose: to translate into Portuguese, culturally adapt and validate the Incontinence Severity Index (ISI) questionnaire.

Methods: two Brazilian translators carried out the translation of the ISI into Portuguese and a version was generated by consensus. This version was back-translated by two other native English speaking translators.