Physiotherapy helps postpartum incontinence

Women seen by a physiotherapist after giving birth have a lower prevalence of urinary incontinence than those who receive routine postpartum care and advice. In a randomised controlled trial of 676 women who had forceps or ventouse deliveries or babies weighing over 4000 g, 348 patients received a 20 minute visit by a physiotherapist while in hospital and a 30 minute home visit eight weeks after delivery. Three months after delivery, report Chiarelli and Cockburn (p 1241), the prevalence of incontinence was significantly lower in the intervention group (31%) than in the group receiving routine care.
 
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Promoting urinary continence in women after delivery: randomised controlled trial
Pauline Chiarelli and Jill Cockburn
BMJ 2002 324: 1241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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