Are there any UPP changes in women with stress urinary incontinence after pelvic floor muscle exercises?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-274

  Zahariou, Athanasios ^a   Karamouti, Maria ^a   Georgantzis, Dimitrios ^a   Papaioannou, Polyanthi ^a  

^a Elpis Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Maximal urethral closure pressure; Pelvic floor muscle exercises; Pressure transmission ratio; Stress urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA PRESSURE;

ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; URETHRA; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 43749123697     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127339     Document Type: Article

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