Stress Urinary Incontinence in Crossfit Practicing Women in Macapá, A Northern City of Brazil

Bruno Filipe Martel Monteiro¹, Aljerry Dias do Rego^1*, Angela Santana Teixeira², Ulisses Almeida de Jesus² & e Naiara Lorrani Silva de Lima²

¹Resident Doctor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Federal University of Amapá, Brazil
²Medicine Student, Federal University of Amapá, Brazil

Dr. Aljerry Dias do Rego, Obstetrician-Gynecologist doctor, Federal University of Amapá, Brazil.

Keywords: Urinary Incontinence; Women; Physical Activity; Crossfit

Abstract

The Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as the complaint of involuntary urine loss, a common clinical situation among women that can occur at any age group. The emergence UI has been associated with the practice of strenuous physical exercises. Among these activities there is the CrossFit. However, there are still few studies calculating the prevalence of urinary incontinence in the practitioners of this physical activity. In that way, this study is essential, since the UI considerably impairs the quality of life of the affected women. The purpose of this work was, through questionnaires, to estimate the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and determinate the epidemiological profile in CrossFit practitioners in the city of Macapá (state of Amapá, Brazil), apart from evaluate the impact on Quality of life of the women identified as incontinents through the application of the King’s Health Questionnaire. 40 women participated of this study, the average age was 29.12 years, with a BMI of 24.84 kg/m². All of them were at the reproductive years. Therefore, they weren’t in any hormonal replacement treatment, most of them were nulliparous or have a maximum of two children, they do not smoke and only two women reported chronic diseases. The prevalence of urinary incontinence during CrossFit was 12.5% and all incontinent women described, as the cause of SUI, the same exercises. The analysis of the quality of life has shown impairment at the performance of domestic tasks and physical/social limitations.

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