Experience of Playing Sport or Exercising for Women with Pelvic Floor Symptoms: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women participate in sport at lower rates than men, and face unique challenges to participation. One in three women across all sports experience pelvic floor (PF) symptoms such as urinary incontinence during training/competition. There is a dearth of qualitative literature on women's experiences of playing sport/exercising with PF symptoms. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of symptomatic women within sports/exercise settings and the impact of PF symptoms on sports/exercise participation using in-depth semi-structured interviews.

Results

Twenty-three women (age 26-61 years) who had experienced a breadth of PF symptom type, severity and bother during sport/exercise participated in one-one interviews. Women played a variety of sports and

SUBMITTER: Dakic JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10127961 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature