**Meet the editors**

Dr Ammar Alhasso is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the University of Edinburgh Teaching Hospitals. Providing both general urology expertise and subspecialisation in female urology, urodynamics and reconstructive urology. He was a research fellow at Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London studying bladder cancer and achieved a Masters degree in Surgi-

cal Sciences in 2000. He is also a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration/ Incontinence group and has published systematic reviews and meta-analyses on urinary incontinence in men and women. With commitment to training and education, Ammar is the urology module organiser for undergraduates at Edinburgh University Medical School, Faculty member of the core skills for urologist course at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a member of the local scientific committee for ICS- 2011 and recently took up role of module leader for the Master of Surgery (ChM) in Urology course at University of Edinburgh.

Ms Ashani Fernando graduated from Auckland University, New Zealand with a degree in medicine in 2004. Her Urological training was undertaken in New Zealand culminating in attaining her FRACS(urol) in 2011. Working as a fellow in reconstructive urology at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, UK, a center of excellence, she is focusing on urodynamics, voiding

dysfunction and urethral and bladder reconstruction. She has published on stone disease and is a reviewer for the Cochrane collaboration/Incontinence group. She is also an organiser for post-graduate training modules in reconstructive urology.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **Epidemiology of Urinary** 

Chapter 1 **The Role of Altered Connective Tissue** 

Stian Langeland Wesnes,

Chapter 3 **A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective** 

Steinar Hunskaar and Guri Rortveit

**on the Diagnosis and Treatment** 

Chapter 4 **Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training with** 

and Lila Teixeira de Araújo Janahú

Chapter 5 **Incontinence: Physical Activity** 

Aletha Caetano

Chapter 6 **Elderly Women and Urinary** 

Catherine MacDonald

Chapter 7 **Geriatric Urinary Incontinence** 

Verdejo-Bravo Carlos

Jan Namysł and Leszek Bidzan

**in the Causation of Pelvic Floor Symptoms 3** 

**Incontinence in Pregnancy and Postpartum 17** 

**of Urinary Incontinence in Young Women 41**  Mariola Bidzan, Jerzy Smutek, Krystyna Garstka-Namysł,

Nazete dos Santos Araujo, Érica Feio Carneiro Nunes, Ediléa Monteiro de Oliveira, Cibele Câmara Rodrigues

**as a Supporting Preventive Approach 69** 

**– Special Concerns on the Frail Elderly 113** 

**Incontinence in Long-Term Care 89** 

**Biofeedback in Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence 59** 

B. Liedl, O. Markovsky, F. Wagenlehner and A. Gunnemann

**Part 1 The Basics 1** 
