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Reliability of dynamometric passive properties of the pelvic floor muscles in postmenopausal women with stress urinary incontinence

✍ Scribed by Mélanie Morin; Denis Gravel; Daniel Bourbonnais; Chantale Dumoulin; Stéphane Ouellet

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 200 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0733-2467
DOI: 10.1002/nau.20603

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