Rehabilitation Therapy and Urinary Incontinence Post Radical Prostatectomy

Abstract

Urinary incontinence rates after radical retropubic prostatectomy vary widely among the different series and depending on the different scoring systems, from 2–10% up to 87%. Rehabilitation therapy is the safest and simplest treatment available so far, although a wide consensus on the efficacy of its results is still lacking.

In our experience, treating post radical prostatectomy incontinent patients with rehabilitation therapy has been safe, reproducible and without side effects; nevertheless, our results suggest its use only in mild to moderate cases of post radical prostatectomy urinary incontinence.