Adding Biofeedback to Pelvic Floor Exercises doesn't improve Urinary Incontinence: BMJ
Researchers have found in a new study that addition of biofeedback to pelvic floor muscle training does not improve urinary incontinence outcomes.The study has appeared in The BMJ.
The researchers conducted a Parallel group randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) plus electromyographic biofeedback or PFMT alone for stress or mixed urinary incontinence in women.
Urinary incontinence, defined as involuntary urine leakage,1 is a distressing, socially restricting condition that affects about one in three women.
In the study about 600 U.K. women with stress or mixed urinary incontinence were randomized to pelvic floor muscle training, with or without electromyographic biofeedback. In both groups, the women were offered six sessions with a continence therapist over 16 weeks plus a pelvic floor exercise regimen to perform at home. In the biofeedback group, an electromyographic device was used both with the therapist and at home; such devices use a vaginal probe to display the pelvic floor muscles' electrical activity on a screen, which is then used to guide the muscle exercises.
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