“Efectividad de la intervención fisioterapéutica en la incontinencia urinaria en mujeres de la tercera edad de la parroquia de Santa Rosa - Apatug”

Abstract

Urinary incontinence is the lost of involuntary urine and it has major prevalence in elderly people and also in females, due that women’s are more prone to suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction(PFD) during either pregnancy, births, habits and lifestyle, the main goal of the present investigation is to determine the effects of the physiotherapeutic intervention in the urinary incontinence of the elderly women of the Santa Rosa parish- Apatug. This research is a type of bibliography-documental, descriptive- explanatory and quantitative, that same that had 14 participants, who assisted to 10 sessions being this the first to perform the initial evaluation and the last and final evaluation, in witch in the questionnaire ICIQ-SF was use. While in the 8 remaining sessions hypopresives and Kegel exercises were applied. Subsequence implementation of the application protocol and performing the final evaluation it concludes that indeed the rate of IU was reduced with a significance of 0.007 connecting the first and final evaluation.