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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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Test-retest and intra-observer repeatability of two-, three- and four-dimensional perineal ultrasound of pelvic floor muscle anatomy and function.
Ingeborg Hoff Brækken,Memona Majida,Marie Ellstrøm-Engh,Hans Peter Dietz,Wolfgang Umek,Kari Bø +5 more
TL;DR: Perineal ultrasound is a reliable method for measuring most of the tested parameters of morphology and function of the PFMs, and Muscle thickness showed variable reliability.
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Comment and Questions to Mottola et al. (2018): 2018 Canadian Guideline for Physical Activity Throughout Pregnancy
Kari Bø,Chantale Dumoulin,Jean Hay-Smith,Cristine Homsi Jorge Ferreira,Helena Frawley,Siv Mørkved,Ingrid Nygaard,Margaret Sherburn +7 more
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Physical activity level and weight gain in a cohort of pregnant Norwegian women
TL;DR: Pregnant women have a low total physical activity level, and a high percentage of women exceed the recommended weight gain during pregnancy, and women who exercised regularly had significantly lower weight gain than inactive women in the third trimester only.
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Do pregnant women follow exercise guidelines? Prevalence data among 3482 women, and prediction of low-back pain, pelvic girdle pain and depression
TL;DR: The results may indicate an association between exercising mid-pregnancy and lower prevalence of low-back pain, pelvic girdle pain and depression in late pregnancy.
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Transabdominal ultrasound measurement of pelvic floor muscle activity when activated directly or via a transversus abdominis muscle contraction.
TL;DR: The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of instruction to contract the pelvic floor muscles (PFM), the transversus abdominis (TrA), and the TrA + PFM visualized as displacement of the pelvicfloor by ultrasound.