SA Fam Pract 2007;49(6): 34-39 CPD Article Urinary incontinence affects approximately a quarter of a billion people worldwide. It is associated with high economic costs, psychological morbidity and adverse effects on the quality of life. Despite this, few women seek help for this condition either due to embarrassment and unwillingness to discuss the symptom with their family member or friend or...

Fecal incontinence is a challenging condition in that it exerts various psychosocial impacts on daily life. Different treatment modalities have been suggested for fecal incontinence. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of biofeedback therapy in combination with surgery in the management of fecal incontinence.The present randomized controlled trial was performed on 27 women with a c...

Urinary incontinence is a growing problem that affects millions of people worldwide. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women studying nursing. Respondents completed a questionnaire assessing urinary incontinence, severity of symptoms and quality of life. Short forms to assess symptoms of distress for urinary incontinence and quality o...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of urinary incontinence and other urinary tract symptoms, the use of incontinence aids and how urinary incontinence influences daily life in two 85/86-year-old cohorts born 10 years apart. There were no statistically significant differences between the two cohorts except for the use of incontinence aids, where 23% of women born in 1901/1902 and...

Urinary incontinence is a stent-related complication; however, total incontinence is not often seen in emergency departments. We report a patient who presented with a sudden, painless, and total urinary incontinence after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. This is the first case of total incontinence due to migrated ureteral double J stent through the external urethral sphincter into the ur...

Wetting presents in two forms, enuresis and incontinence. Enuresis is defined as wetting when no underlying anatomical or functional abnormality of the urinary tract can be detected. A diagnosis of incontinence implies the presence of an underlying anomaly that requires investigation and treatment. However, the diagnosis of incontinence in children is not simple. When an adult presents with wet...

OBJECTIVE To determine current knowledge, attitudes, and management of urinary incontinence among family physicians in Canada. DESIGN Cross-sectional mailed survey. SETTING Family physicians in Canada. PARTICIPANTS A random sample of 1500 members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-assessed knowledge, self-reported attitudes, and rating of various t...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of nurse assessment with reinforcement of pelvic floor muscle training exercises and bladder training compared with standard management among women with persistent incontinence three months postnatally. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with nine months' follow up. SETTING Community intervention in three centres (Dunedin, New Zealand; Birmingham; Aberdeen). ...

correlation between sacral ratio and bowel function as well as fecal continence has been well documented in patients with anorectal malformations (arms). one hundred and twenty children with arms were investigated in this study. sacral ratio (sr) was measured from pelvic x-rays of patients. among these, 52 patients (43%) had no pelvic x-ray and were excluded from this study. sr was measured by ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of faecal incontinence in the community and evaluate identifiable risk factors. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional survey using a validated questionnaire. A short version of the questionnaire was sent to 220 subjects and a long version to 770 subjects, randomly selected from western Sydney, Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-reported faecal incontine...