Rigzin Kundo
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to is to find out whether pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) help to reduce stress incontinence during pregnancy or not. This paper also defines stress incontinence, and explains how it effects on the quality of life of pregnant women. Sangsawang and
Serisathien (2012) and Sahakian and Woodward (2012) focus on the pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) to decrease severity of stress incontinence during pregnancy. However,
Kocaoz, Talas, Atabekoglu (2010) focus on the prevalence of urinary incontinence during pregnancy and ways to assess its influence on the quality of life.
Stress Incontinence …show more content…
Pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) is the only first line non-invasive treatment for stress incontinence. Studies have found that a 6 weeks pelvic floor muscle exercise programme is effective at relieving stress incontinence.
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether pelvic floors exercises help to reduce stress incontinence in pregnant women or not. Let us assume that pelvic floor exercises do help to reduce stress incontinence in pregnant women. The hypothesis can be tested using the following two studies of research. Let us assume Sahakian and Woodward (2012)- the first study research and Sangsawang and Serisathie (2012)- the second study research. Sahakian and Woodward (2012) demonstrate the literature critique of the impact of pelvic floor exercises on urinary stress incontinence in postnatal women The literature critiques were obtained by conducting research on 162 papers that were taken from four different databases.
Initially there were 162 papers that were analyzed, but out of them only 7 studies were