Effect of pelvic floor muscle training on reports of urinary incontinence in obese women undergoing a low-calorie diet before bariatric surgery - protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity represents a growing threat to health with multiple negative impacts including urinary incontinence. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is the first line of treatment for urinary incontinence. Both surgical and conservative weight loss results in improvement of urinary incontinence reports in obese women and we hypothesize that a low-calorie diet in combination with PFMT would result in additional beneficial effects to urinary symptoms in women with UI compared would with weight loss alone.

Objective

To assess the effect of a low-calorie diet plus PFMT protocol in obese women's urinary incontinence reports.

Methods

This is a protocol for a randomized controlled trial that will include obese women reporting UI and being able to contract their pelvic

SUBMITTER: Mendes PCS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10240468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature