Dysfunction of Lower Urinary Tract in between Active and Low Active in Sport Women High Students

Abstract

No interrelation between dysfunction of the lower urinary tract and sport is discovered in world literature. It is necessary as a beginning to study the quantity of distribution of the various kinds of dysfunctions among women athletes in order to clarify these interrelations. The contingent of our study covers 65 women high students from “V. Levski” National Academy of Sport, out of which 33 are active and 32 are low active in sport. A standardized questionnaire, structured according to the various dysfunctions of the lower urinary tract, is made use of as an evaluation method of the lower urinary tract function. Analysis of the prevalence of the symptoms of dysfunction of the lower urinary tract is made in between active and low active in sport women high students; the distribution of the various kinds of symptoms; their reflection on the quality of life, etc. The following more important conclusions are made: the symptoms of dysfunction of the lower urinary tract are often met among the women athletes under study; deficit symptoms upon emptying the bladder are of the greatest share of distribution; urinary incontinence is rarely met in between the contingent we have studied; dysfunction symptoms available in between the women under study do not have an important negative effect on the quality of life. The study we have made provokes the questions of why namely the deficit symptoms upon emptying the bladder are most often met in between the women athletes under study; whether they are more often met in comparison with young women not active in sport and what is the reflection of these symptoms on the sport-competitive activity.