A Retrospective Study of Micturition Interruption Exercise to Accelerate the Recovery of Urinary Incontinence after Radical Prostatectomy

Abstract Purpose: To explore the effectiveness of micturition interruption exercise in improving the incidence of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy.Materials and Methods: With a retrospective case-control study, 96 patients admitted in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University from August 2016 to August 2020 and underwent radical prostatectomy were collected as the subjects. Those patients who used micturition interruption exercise (n=48)were set as the observation group, and the control group was collected according to the ratio of 1:1, the patients used Kegel exercise (n=48). To compare the rehabilitation of urinary incontinence in patients and the effect of training compliance on rehabilitation.Results: The recovery time of urinary incontinence in the observation group was significantly shorter than that of the control group. In the observation group, 83.3% of patients with training compliance reached an average or above, while the control group only accounted for 58.3%. International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short-Form score of the observation group was lower than that of the control group after surgery. Spearman analysis suggests that there is a negative correlation between the postoperative urinary incontinence recovery time and compliance with the micturition interruption exercise.Conclusions: Micturition interruption exercise could improve the patient's exercise compliance and shorten the recovery time of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy.