Tratamento da incontinência urinária de esforço feminina pela Reeducação Postural Global (RPG) : estudo comparativo longitudinal / Female urinary incontinence treatment using global postural re-education (GPR) : longitudinal comparative study

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2010

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Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is one of the most common complains of women and postural unbalances have been considered as a possible cause. Studies have shown that postural disequilibrium such as hiperlordose, pelvis anteversion, lumbar pain and weakness of the abdominal muscles are associated to pelvic floor muscles dysfunctions. Objective: To compare the effect of Global Postural Re-education (GPR) and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training (PFMP) for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence at short and long term. Methodology: Fifty-two women with SUI complain were distributed into two groups: Group 1 (G1) was submitted to 50 minutes weekly sessions of GPR for three months and Group 2 (G2) performed PFMT four times a week for three months, being one time in individual session under professional supervision and the other three times at home, for three months. Patients were evaluated at the end of the treatment and after six months and two years on subjective evaluation (cure, improvement, no change and recurrence), voiding diary, functional evaluation of pelvic floor (FEPF) and through a questionnaire of quality of life. Results: The number of patients completing the treatments was 25 in G1 and 17 in G2. The subjective evaluation of G1 showed cure in 16% women at the end of the treatment and 24% after six months. In G2 no women reported cure at the end of the treatment, 69% indicated improvement and 31% reported no change. After six months, the reports of cure, improvement and no change in G2 were, respectively, 19%, 37.5% and 31%. Additionally, 12.5% of the women in this group, who had referred to improvement at the end of the treatment, reported symptom recurrence after six months. The urine leakage episodes reduced significantly in both groups (p<0.001), being significantly lower in G1. PAD use reduced significantly in both groups (p<0.001) and was significantly lower in G1. FEPF improved significantly in both groups (p<0.001), with no difference between them. The evaluation of Quality of Life had shown significantly improvement in both groups, in all domains. Two years after the end of the treatment, 21 patients of G1and 12 of G2 were reevaluated. The amount of women reporting cure in G1 and G2 were, respectively, 47.6% and 16.7%. In G2, 33.3% of the patients referred to symptoms recurrence in comparison with the end of the treatment. Episodes of urine leakage and PAD use reduced significantly in both groups (p=0.0001), without significant difference between groups (p=0.0787 and p=0.0579, respectively). FEPF had shown improvement in G1 in the evaluation at six months and two years; however, in G2 it had shown improvement at the end of the treatment but it did not change in the evaluation at two years. This shows that the behavior of the groups was different throughout the time (p=0.045). Conclusion: GPR has proven to be an efficient alternative to treat SUI in women when compared to PFMT, either on short term or long term follow-up

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re-education human posture postura humana incontinencia urinaria por esforço reeducação stress urinary incontinence

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