Effect and development of new training methods using the inner unit functions for stress urinary incontinence

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870537
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical nursing; Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Takasaki University of Health and Welfare
• Principal Investigator: UBUKATA HITOMI 高崎健康福祉大学, 保健医療学部, 助教 (90635509)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 腹圧性尿失禁 / 超音波画像診断装置 / インナーユニット / 骨盤底筋群

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For stress urinary incontinence in the old and middle age woman, exercise to retract only a pelvic floor group of muscles has been recommended until now.
However, we compared the urinary incontinence training using the inner unit function (group of muscles in the abdominal deep part) with training to retract only a conventional pelvic floor group of muscles, and the improvement of the muscular contraction power, a decrement of the number of urinary incontinence, the improvement of the quality of life were found in this research.

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