Interferential Therapy Versus Pelvic Floor Exercise for the Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women

Background: There are many treatments given for stress urinary incontinence in women which includes life style modification, drugs with alpha adrenergic action. However, studies involving interferential therapy and pelvic floor exercise for management of stress urinary incontinence in women are limited to this date.

Objectives: To compare the effects of interferential therapy and pelvic floor exercise in subjects with stress urinary incontinence.

Study design: Quasi experimental study design, Pre and Post type.

Procedure: 20 subjects in the Group A received interferential therapy and 20 subjects in Group B received pelvic floor exercise. The Outcome measure of this study is Pad test.

Results: The post-test mean value of interferential therapy is for Group A was 5.450 and the Post-test value of pelvic floor exercise for Group B was 5.100.

Conclusion: Pelvic floor exercise therapy significantly improves the pelvic floor muscle function in subjects with urinary incontinence in women.

Author(s): Sankarganesh A*, Arthi M, Siva Kumar VPR

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