Avaliação da temperatura e satisfação de mulheres com Incontinência Urinária submetidas à crioterapia dos Músculos do Assoalho Pélvico

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the temperature difference and the satisfaction of women with UI during the application of cryotherapy in the Pelvic Floor Muscles (PFM). This is a longitudinal study. Thirty-three women over 35 years old and with complaints of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) participated in the study. The volunteers underwent an initial assessment, and after 48 hours, the stimulus was applied with cryotherapy or with the manometry probe and then the reassessment was performed, following the same protocol of the initial assessment. The temperature in the perineal tendinous center and in the labia minora was evaluated before, immediately after and minutes after the treatments, and at the end, the volunteers indicated the level of satisfaction with the treatments from a Lickert scale. Statistical analyzes were performed with the GraphPad Prism 5 program and the Shapiro–Wilk test showed a non-parametric distribution of the data. The intragroup analysis showed that there was a decrease in the temperature of the central tendon of the perineum between the temperature measured before the intervention and the measurements obtained after the intervention with cryotherapy and manometry. In the intergroup analysis, the cryotherapy group had a lower temperature than the manometry group in the post-intervention assessments. Therefore, the women were satisfied with both treatments, however there was no correlation between temperature variation and satisfaction between women with the treatments.