A Experimental Study on Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Pelvic Floor Muscles in Females with stress incontinence

Dr Tushi Kori; Surandar Kumar; Kapil Rastogi; Blessy Raju; Mohit Kumar

A Experimental Study on Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Pelvic Floor Muscles in Females with stress incontinence

Author(s)	Dr. Dr Tushi Kori, Dr. Surandar Kumar, Dr. Kapil Rastogi, Dr. Blessy Raju, Dr. Mohit Kumar
Country	India
Abstract	Background: Stress incontinence is very common in females, in which, the involuntary control leads to urination during increasing pressure in intra abdominal area. Diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles act as coordinative factor for managing the Intra abdominal pressures. My research says that diaphragmatic breathing can strengthen the pelvic floor muscles as well as can provide a Primary voluntary control and manage the stress incontinence. Objectives: To evaluate the good effect of diaphragmatic breathing exercises on pelvic floor muscles to increase strength with the condition of urinary incontinence. Methods: It is an experimental study with categories including “Pre Test” and “Post Test” was conducted on 30 females with intrinsic criteria - aged between 25-45 year old female diagnosed with stress incontinence. The duration program of the study was 6 weeks interventions. The breathing exercise was continued regularly for the entire duration of study. The pattern of the exercises includes Diaphragmatic breathing, thoracic expansion, relaxation breathing exercise for 10-15 minutes per session, 5 times a day, after every 3 hours, 5 days per week. To analysis of outcomes parameters were Modified Oxford Scale, Urinary Leakage Frequency and Quality Of Life Scores. Data were calculated and analyzed by the using of “Paired t-Test”. Result: Significance of study observed that all outcomes measures are actually improved. The strength increased of pelvic floor muscles from 1.8/0.5 to 3.3/0.6 with P value less than 0.001). Urinary leakage frequency decreased from 10.2/2.1 to 4.8/1.5 per week. Quality of life scores from 66.5/5.2 to 42.3/40.8. Conclusions: Diaphragmatic breathing exercises actually increased the strength of pelvic floor muscles, improved the urinary leakage frequency and enhance the quality of life in females having stress incontinence. Conclusion says that these exercises are Safer, very effective and no cost intervention. Keywords: Diaphragmatic breathing, stress incontinence, urinary leakage, pelvic floor muscles, quality of life.
Keywords	Diaphragmatic breathing, stress incontinence, urinary leakage, pelvic floor muscles, quality of life.
Field	Physical Science
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-31

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