Everyone of us know that dance keeps us in shape, reduces the stress, increases our self confidences etc.. A new study has found that dance may also help you to prevent urine leakage.
According to the study, for the senior women suffering from urinary incontinence, dance helps them contract their pelvic floor muscles when they perform any daily activity to prevent urine leakage.
For the study, the researchers at the Institute Universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal in Canada and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich added to a physiotherapy program for pelvic floor muscles. They picked 24 elderly women for the study and the result post-dance sessions were promising.
“Our team registered a greater decrease in daily urine leakage than for the usual program, no dropouts from the program and a higher weekly participation rate,” said Chantal Dumoulin, associate professor in the physiotherapy programme at Universitaire de Montreal.
According to the researchers, fun is a recipe for success.
“Compliance with the program is a key success factor. The more you practice, the more you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles,” said Eling D de Bruin, researchers at the department of health sciences and technology at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
The challenge was to motivate women to show up each week. The dance component was the Part that the women found most fun and did not want to miss. They laughed a lot as they danced, said the study published in the journal Neurourology and Urodynamics.
Dancing gives women confidence, as they have to move their legs quickly to keep up with the choreography in the video game while controlling their urine.
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