Introduction: Urinary incontinence is common after radical prostatectomy and it has major impact on patience′s quality of life. Physiotherapists try to shorten time to regain continence or improve symptoms of urinary incontinence by using different methods of conservative management. Timing of application vary from preoperative, postoperative or combination of preoperative and postoperative interventions. Purpose: The main purpose of the thesis is to verify conservative methods of physiotherapy for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy, their impact and efficiency on symptoms of urinary incontinence and on quality of life. Beside that we want to verify if addition of electrical stimulation, biofeedback or supervised pelvic floor muscles training increase efficacy of independent home exercises of pelvic floor muscles and if interventions help shortening time to regain continence. Everything is based on the review of scientific literature. Methods: The research was obtained using the following online databases: PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PEDro and Cochrane library. The inclusion criteria were: randomized controlled trial, published after year 2008, physiotherapy of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy, preoperative and/or postoperative interventions, in Slovenian or English language, score 4 or more on the PEDro scale. Results: From 71 examined articles, 13 were included in the literature review. They were published between the years 2008 and 2018. Results show that most often used intervention is pelvic floor muscle exercise (alone or in combination with electrical stimulation or biofeedback or behavioral therapy). All these combinations were found effective on symptomes of urinary incontinence compared to no treatment. Positive impact has also pilates exercise. The most convenient intervention was individual teaching and monitoring of pelvic floor exercise. Discussion and conclusion: It is impossible to determine witch intervention or combination of interventions is the most effective due to poor quality of studies, big differences in protocols, populations and measurement of the income. Pelvic floor muscle exercise is found to be most convenient. In witch cases or how is electrical stimulation the most useful, is still unknown. Additional high-quality research oriented on improving patience′s quality of life is needed.
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