ArticleNature clinical practice. Urology2009
Does pelvic floor muscle training prevent and treat urinary and fecal incontinence in pregnancy?
Article in Nature clinical practice. Urology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05530681 (Correlation Pelvic Floor Function and Ultrasound Findings One Year After Childbirth), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Correlation Pelvic Floor Function and Ultrasound Findings One Year After Childbirth
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Squeeze the beat: Enhancing cardiac vagal activity during resonance breathing via coherent pelvic floor recruitment.Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- Preventing urinary incontinence during pregnancy and postpartum: a review.International urogynecology journal · 2013Review
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Abstract
This Practice Point commentary discusses the systematic review by Hay-Smith and colleagues, which investigated the efficacy of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) for preventing and treating urinary and fecal incontinence in pregnant and postnatal women. The authors concluded that antenatal PFMT improved continence outcomes during first pregnancy, and that PFMT represents an appropriate treatment for women with persistent postpartum incontinence. This systematic review is of high methodological quality. Nevertheless, the exclusion of studies with nonrandomized designs and the inclusion of large studies of weak interventions might have resulted in an underestimation of the effect of PFMT. The dose-response relationship is important in PFMT, and intensive training with close follow-up is required to achieve beneficial effects.
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