PROMOTION OF CONTINENCE IN MOBILITY GROUPS FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE
作者:
Sheila M. Harrison,
期刊:
Australian Journal on Ageing
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 1
页码: 3-5
ISSN:0726-4240
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-6612.1988.tb00302.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis study involves elderly women who attend mobility groups conducted weekly by physiotherapists employed by the Health Department of Western Australia.It aims to assess the prevalence and severity of micturition disorders in women attending the groups. The effect of adding a specific routine for re‐education of the pelvic floor muscles to the general exercise programme will be evaluated.Analysis of the data shows that micturition disorders are prevalent in elderly women. Regular practise of pelvic floor exercises is shown to decrease nocturia, frequency and stress incontinence of urine and thus reduce some of the morbidity associated with childbearing and the menopaus
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