Preoperative Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Female Urinary Incontinence

Intensive pelvic floor exercise program targeting the fast (tap) and slow twitch fibers (elevator) of the pelvic floor. The tap exercise will be performed by instructing the patient to quickly contract and release the pelvic floor muscles. For the elevator exercise, the patient will be asked to contract the pelvic floor muscles for 5 seconds and hold them for 5 seconds and then slowly relax them within 5 seconds. Patients will do the exercises as a home program. The exercise program will last for 6 weeks. One set of exercise will be counted as 10 taps and 10 elevator. In the first week, patients will be asked to do 5 sets of exercises per day and the number of sets will be increased by five for 6 weeks.