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Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study

BACKGROUND: To describe the clinical, functional and quality of life characteristics in women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). In addition, to analyse the relationship between the variables reported by the patients and those informed by the clinicians, and the relationship between instrumente...

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Autores principales: Chevalier, Francine, Fernandez-Lao, Carolina, Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25420756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4
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author Chevalier, Francine
Fernandez-Lao, Carolina
Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
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description BACKGROUND: To describe the clinical, functional and quality of life characteristics in women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). In addition, to analyse the relationship between the variables reported by the patients and those informed by the clinicians, and the relationship between instrumented variables and the manual pelvic floor strength assessment. METHODS: Two hundred and eighteen women participated in this observational, analytical study. An interview about Urinary Incontinence and the quality of life questionnaires (EuroQoL-5D and SF-12) were developed as outcomes reported by the patients. Manual muscle testing and perineometry as outcomes informed by the clinician were assessed. Descriptive and correlation analysis were carried out. RESULTS: The average age of the subjects was (39.93 ± 12.27 years), (24.49 ± 3.54 BMI). The strength evaluated by manual testing of the right levator ani muscles was 7.79 ± 2.88, the strength of left levator ani muscles was 7.51 ± 2.91 and the strength assessed with the perineometer was 7.64 ± 2.55. A positive correlation was found between manual muscle testing and perineometry of the pelvic floor muscles (p < .001). No correlation was found between outcomes of quality of life reported by the patients and outcomes of functional capacity informed by the physiotherapist. CONCLUSION: A stratification of the strength of pelvic floor muscles in a normal distribution of a large sample of women with SUI was done, which provided the clinic with a baseline. There is a relationship between the strength of the pelvic muscles assessed manually and that obtained by a perineometer in women with SUI. There was no relationship between these values of strength and quality of life perceived. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-42519262014-12-03 Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study Chevalier, Francine Fernandez-Lao, Carolina Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: To describe the clinical, functional and quality of life characteristics in women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). In addition, to analyse the relationship between the variables reported by the patients and those informed by the clinicians, and the relationship between instrumented variables and the manual pelvic floor strength assessment. METHODS: Two hundred and eighteen women participated in this observational, analytical study. An interview about Urinary Incontinence and the quality of life questionnaires (EuroQoL-5D and SF-12) were developed as outcomes reported by the patients. Manual muscle testing and perineometry as outcomes informed by the clinician were assessed. Descriptive and correlation analysis were carried out. RESULTS: The average age of the subjects was (39.93 ± 12.27 years), (24.49 ± 3.54 BMI). The strength evaluated by manual testing of the right levator ani muscles was 7.79 ± 2.88, the strength of left levator ani muscles was 7.51 ± 2.91 and the strength assessed with the perineometer was 7.64 ± 2.55. A positive correlation was found between manual muscle testing and perineometry of the pelvic floor muscles (p < .001). No correlation was found between outcomes of quality of life reported by the patients and outcomes of functional capacity informed by the physiotherapist. CONCLUSION: A stratification of the strength of pelvic floor muscles in a normal distribution of a large sample of women with SUI was done, which provided the clinic with a baseline. There is a relationship between the strength of the pelvic muscles assessed manually and that obtained by a perineometer in women with SUI. There was no relationship between these values of strength and quality of life perceived. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4251926/ /pubmed/25420756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4 Text en © Chevalier et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
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title_fullStr Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study
title_full_unstemmed Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study
title_short Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study
title_sort normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25420756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4
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