STUDY DESIGN Prospective, randomized, double-blinded, clinical trial using a repeated-measures design. OBJECTIVES To determine the short-term clinical efficacy of Kinesio Tape (KT) when applied to college students with shoulder pain, as compared to a sham tape application. BACKGROUND Tape is commonly used as an adjunct for treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries. A majority of ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to prospectively and randomly compare tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) with transobturator suburethral tape (T.O.T.) for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. Study design: Sixty-one women with SUI were randomly assigned to either TVT (n=31) or T.O.T. (n=30). The preoperative evaluation included a quality-of-life questionna...

UNLABELLED INDICATION FOR SURGERY: Exercise-induced urinary incontinence is responsible for more than 75% of all cases of urinary incontinence in women. Surgery can provide excellent cure if the initial indication is established properly. SURGICAL PROCEDURES The aim is to correct the mechanical alterations leading to urine leakage: sphincter anomalies and cervico-urethral hypermobility. Colpo...

This case report investigates the efficacy of bladder and behavioural training in the treatment of the symptoms of urinary urgency and urge urinary incontinence (UUI) in a 62-year-old woman who had recently undergone a surgical procedure involving tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). She was referred for physiotherapy 3 months after undergoing the operation, which, while successfully managing her s...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors leading to treatment failure in a sample of 302 women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) treated by transobturator vaginal tape (TOT) with a medium follow-up of 4 years (range 1-6). MATERIAL AND METHODS A population based cohort study with prospectively data from 302 women, aged 41-81 years underwent TOT between April 2003-November 2010. Data were collec...