Effect of TECAR in Treating Stress Urinary Incontinence

The signal generator was an INDIBA® 448 kHz RF device (vagina/rectum) (INDIBA SA, Barcelona, Spain).

The patients will instructed to contract their pelvic floor muscles without contracting adjacent muscles, such as the abdomen, glutei and hip adductors muscles twenty repletion consisted of contraction and squeezing of the muscle ten seconds followed by relaxation for twenty second then rested for two minutes. The exercises program lasted for lasting 45 min. divided into 5 min. warming up, 35 min. actual treatment and 5 min. cooling down, three times a week for eight consecutive weeks. The patient will teach to contract their pelvic floor muscles before coughing or sneezing thus to prevent leakage. Home exercises through continuing practicing these contractions as frequent as possible according to her ability, at early morning before getting from bed from crock lying position, at afternoon from sitting and standing positions, at evening from sitting and standing positions and finally at night at bed time from crock lying position.