TY - JOUR AU - Chevalier, Francine AU - Fernández-Lao, Carolina AU - Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I. PY - 2014 SN - 1472-6874 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/34985 AB - Background: To describe the clinical, functional and quality of life characteristics in women with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). In addition, to analyse the relationship between the variables reported by the patients and those informed by the... AB - Methods: Two hundred and eighteen women participated in this observational, analytical study. An interview about Urinary Incontinence and the quality of life questionnaires (EuroQoL-5D and SF-12) were developed as outcomes reported by the patients.... AB - Results: The average age of the subjects was (39.93 ± 12.27 years), (24.49 ± 3.54 BMI). The strength evaluated by manual testing of the right levator ani muscles was 7.79 ± 2.88, the strength of left levator ani muscles was 7.51 ± 2.91 and the... AB - Conclusion: A stratification of the strength of pelvic floor muscles in a normal distribution of a large sample of women with SUI was done, which provided the clinic with a baseline. There is a relationship between the strength of the pelvic... LA - eng PB - Biomed Central KW - Pelvic floor muscles KW - Stress urinary incontinence KW - Normal reference values KW - Scoring measures TI - Normal reference values of strength in pelvic floor muscle of women: a descriptive and inferential study DO - 10.1186/s12905-014-0143-4 ER -