High impact sports can produce exaggerated and frequent increase of the intra-abdominal pressure, one of the triggering factors of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in athletes. The study was carried out with 20 athletes; 10 of these being basketball and 10 volleyball athletes. The study was quantitative, observational, cross on and comparative, in which the ability of contraction of the pelvic floor (PF) among athletes in volleyball and basketball was compared, and later correlated with symptoms of stress urinary incontinence. The evaluation of the athletes was composed of a questionnaire, the functional evaluation of the pelvic floor (FEPF) and assessment of the ability of contraction of the PF through the Phoenix Electromyographic Biofeedback®. Statistically significant differences were not observed after the evaluation regarding the ability of contraction of the pelvic floor between basketball and volleyball athletes, but both groups presented athletes with reports of involuntary loss of urine due to physical exertion, with higher proportion in the group of basketball athletes.
physiotherapy; urinary incontinence; high impact
