RECURSOS FISIOTERAPÊUTICOS UTILIZADOS NO TRATAMENTO DE INCONTINÊNCIA URINÁRIA: REVISÃO DE LITERATURA

Abstract

The present study is a revision of literature, where the objective was to search for evidence on the physiotherapeutic resources utilized in the treatment of urinary incontinence. It is a descriptive and comparative study, where scientific articles were used, published between 2005 through 2015. The research was done between the months of August through December of 2015. The following bibliographical reference databases were used for the search of articles: Medical LiteratureAnalysisandRetrieval System Online - MEDLINE (PUBMED), Literatura Latino- Americana e do Caribe emCiencias da Saude (LILACS) e ScientificElectronic Library Online (Scielo). As subject descriptors the following words were used: urinary, incontinence, physical therapy urological, physical therapy gynecological. The study at hand counted with a sample of 21 articles after the criteria for inclusion and exclusion were applied. As a general, the type of Urinary Incontinence that receive the most treatment was the Effort type (66.66%), with the more frequent choice being to make use of combined therapies to handle treatment (33.33%), the sample varied between 1 and 80 patients and significant improvement was found in 19 of the articles (76%). The number of sessions varied according to the type of resource used, with Hipopresiva Gymnastics being the one that obtained the best result in relation to the number of sessions. In the exposure, the efficacy of using different resources in the physiotherapeutic action was confirmed, with the exception of the use of orientations as the only form of treatment, which did not receive significant results.