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Kari Bø
Researcher at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Publications - 286
Citations - 14824
Kari Bø is an academic researcher from Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urinary incontinence & Pelvic Floor Muscle. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 266 publications receiving 12452 citations. Previous affiliations of Kari Bø include American Physical Therapy Association & Akershus University Hospital.
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Pelvic floor muscle exercise for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence: III. Effects of two different degrees of pelvic floor muscle exercises
TL;DR: Fifty‐two women with clinically and urodynamically proven stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were randomly assigned to one of two different pelvic floor muscle (PFM) exercise groups.
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Pelvic floor muscle training during pregnancy to prevent urinary incontinence: a single-blind randomized controlled trial.
TL;DR: According to numbers needed to treat, intensive pelvic floor muscle training during pregnancy prevented urinary incontinence in about one in six women during pregnancy and one in eight women after delivery.
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An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)/International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for the conservative and nonpharmacological management of female pelvic floor dysfunction
Kari Bø,Helena Frawley,Bernard T. Haylen,Yoram Abramov,Fernando Almeida,Bary Berghmans,Maria Augusta Tezelli Bortolini,Chantale Dumoulin,Mario João Gomes,Doreen McClurg,Jane Meijlink,Elizabeth Shelly,Emanuel C. Trabuco,Carolina Walker,Amanda Wells +14 more
TL;DR: There has been an increasing need for the terminology on the conservative management of female pelvic floor dysfunction to be collated in a clinically based consensus report.
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Vaginal palpation of pelvic floor muscle strength: inter-test reproducibility and comparison between palpation and vaginal squeeze pressure
Kari Bø,Hanne Borg Finckenhagen +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to test inter‐rater reproducibility of the modified Oxford grading system and compare results from vaginal palpation with squeeze pressure measurement.
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Pelvic floor muscle exercise for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence: II. Validity of vaginal pressure measurements of pelvic floor muscle strength and the necessity of supplementary methods for control of correct contraction
TL;DR: The present investigation comprises three methodological studies concerning vaginal pressure measurements of pelvic floor muscle strength and a balloon connected by a catheter to a pressure transducer.