Pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse: A protocol study.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) on pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function and quality of life (QoL) in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

Methods: This study will be a randomized, controlled, parallel, and blinded clinical trial. The final sample will consist of 32 women diagnosed with SUI and cystocele (stage I and II).

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.

Impact of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Isolated and Associated with Game Therapy on Mixed Urinary Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To verify whether pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) associated with game therapy (GT) can potentiate improvements in PFM pressure, urinary loss, and perception of improvement in women with mixed urinary incontinence (MUI). A randomized and blinded trial was conducted with 32 women aged between 45 to 70 years presenting diagnosis of MUI. They were randomly divided into two groups: PFMT group and PFMT+GT group.

Game therapy a new approach to treat women facing mixed urinary incontinence: A study protocol.

Aims: To describe a pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) isolated and associated with game therapy (PFMT + GT) for women facing mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) during climacteric period.

Methods: To standardize a randomized controlled clinical trial intervention, a protocol was created, in an attempt to decrease women's symptomatology generated by MUI, through pelvic floor and abdomino-loin-pelvic muscles strength, and endurance. This study protocol will be composed of 32 volunteers, divided into two groups of 16.

Comparison of pelvic floor muscle training isolated and associated with weight loss: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: To analyze whether pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) associated with weight loss (WL) is better than isolated PFMT to provide additional beneficial effects to urinary symptoms in women with MUI.

Methods: A randomized, simple-blind parallel controlled trial was performed and included women with MUI aged between 40 and 65 years and body mass index between 25 and 40 kg/m. The sample was randomized into two groups: 11 PFMT + WL and 11 PFMT.

A manometry classification to assess pelvic floor muscle function in women.

Objective: To develop a classification scale for manometry of pelvic floor muscles (PFM) in Brazilian women, according to the modified Oxford scale.

Methods: A cross sectional study, with 288 women enrolled in the Maternity, Natal, Brazil. Manometry and PFM strength data were collected and classified according to the modified Oxford scale.

The relationship between the presence of lower urinary tract symptoms and waist circumference.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to evaluate the pressure of the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) according to waist circumference (WC) and correlate the presence of urinary tract symptoms (UTS) with WC.

Patients And Methods: The study was observational and cross-sectional. One-hundred and sixty-four females between 45 and 65 years of age were evaluated.