Physiotherapy Assessment For Female Urinary Incontinence

What Will I Learn?

1. Understand the significance and structure of the different health care providers’s (medical doctors, pelvic physiotherapists, psychologists, etc.) assessment like history-taking, exam, classification, analysis & evaluation of female urinary incontinence.
2. Discuss and understand the level of evidence for conservative, non-pharmaceutical interventions for female urinary incontinence.
3. Discuss and understand the role of physiotherapy assessment in multidisciplinary models and algorithms for female urinary incontinence

Curriculum for this course

01:28:00 Hours

Webinar

Physiotherapy assessment for female urinary incontinence based on the practice of clinical cases with Bary Berghmans. 01:28:00
Webinar pdf

Reading/Learning

Avery, 2004, ICIQ: A Brief and Robust Measure for Evaluating the Symptoms and Impact of Urinary Incontinence
Berghmans, 2020, Physiotherapy assessment for female urinary incontinence
Berghmnas, 2020, The ‘5 F’s Concept for Pelvic Floor Muscle Training: From Finding the Pelvic Floor to Functional Use
Bernards, 2013, Dutch guidelines for physiotherapy in patients with stress urinary incontinence: an updates
Brown, 2006, The Sensitivity and Specificity of a Simple Test To Distinguish between Urge and Stress Urinary Incontinence
Deegan,2017, Quantification of pelvic floor muscle strength in female urinary incontinence: A systematic review and comparison of contemporary methodologies
Figure 1: Urgency Questionnaire (UQ)
Figure 5: Pelvic Floor Muscle Functional Assessment (PFMFA)
Figure 6: Interpretation scores PFMFA form
Hendriks, 2008, Factorial validity and internal consistency of the PRAFAB questionnaire in women with stress urinary incontinence
Hendriks, 2007, The Psychometric Properties of the PRAFAB-Questionnaire: A Brief Assessment Questionnaire to Evaluate Severity of Urinary Incontinence in Women
Hendriks, 2008, The Minimal Important Change of the PRAFAB Questionnaire in Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study
Josephson, 2011, Physiotherapists’ clinical reasoning about patients with non-specific low back pain, as described by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Latorre, 2018, An ideal e-health system for pelvic floor muscle training adherence: Systematic review
PRAFAB score-lijst
Tabel 8: PRAFAB score-lijst
Table 2: The PRAFAB questionnaire score

Requirements

Suggested level: basic knowledge, some experience advisable

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Description

Based on adequate physiotherapeutic diagnostics a proper patient selection and consequent pelvic floor muscle training will have a high cure/improvement rate, also long term. This webinar demonstrates the role of pelvic physiotherapy assessment for female urinary incontinence in clinical (research) practice. The webinar further presents technique and a practice protocol for physiotherapy assessment process, including troubleshooting and interpretation. The assessment process, which is used to formulate a specific treatment plan, investigates the nature of the underlying disorder and – if present – the urinary incontinence severity

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