Incontinência urinária e prática esportiva: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Objective: To verify, through a literature review, the influence of regular physical exercise on urine loss in adult women. Methodology: It is an integrative review. We used Pubmed, Pedro and Scielo databases, selected studies published from 2009 to 2019 in English or Portuguese, available in full, which were observational, cross-sectional, exploratory or case control studies. Studies that included samples with elderly or male individuals were excluded. The Boolean operator AND was used as follows: Urinary incontinence and exercise, urinary incontinence and sport, pelvic floor dysfunction and exercise, pelvic floor dysfunction and sport. Results: From a total of 829 articles found in the databases, 10 were selected for final inclusion in the present study, the mean age of the samples ranged from 15 to 48 years, the sample size also showed variability, between 58 and 744 participants. All articles found symptoms of urinary loss in athletes who perform training for competitive purposes, it was observed a higher prevalence of urine loss in high impact and jumping sports. The articles that evaluated the quality of life of the samples observed that the presence of UI (urinary incontinence) symptoms negatively interferes with the total score. Conclusion: All selected articles found a significantly higher incidence of UI symptoms in athletes when compared to control groups and an important percentile compared to themselves.(sic)