Randomized controlled trial of physiotherapy for postpartum stress incontinence: 7-year follow-up

Chantale Dumoulin^1,2,*, Claudine Martin¹, Valérie Elliott^1,2, Daniel Bourbonnais^1,3, Mélanie Morin⁴, Marie-Claude Lemieux⁵, Robert Gauthier⁶

Neurourol Urodyn. 2013 Mar 28. doi: 10.1002/nau.22330. [Epub ahead of print]

This is a follow up to the original RCT in which post partum women with persistent SUI participated in either PFM exercises plus transversus abdominus training or PFM exercises alone.  The original study concluded that addition of tranversus exercises did not significantly increase results as both groups had similar outcomes.  This seven year follow up has the same conclusion and reports on pad test 53% of those tested where still continent seven years after  treatment.  Long term studies provide evidence of the impact of our treatments.