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Introduction: Urinary Stress Incontinence is very common condition seen in postnatal woman. Without pelvic floor strengthening this condition will lead to social inhibition. The rate of urinary stress incontinence is more in normal vaginal delivery compared to C-Section. Few authors have demonstrated the effectiveness of Kegal exercise and Pilates on such woman with urinary stress incontinence. There is dirth in the literature related to effect of Kinesiotaping in reduction of urinary stress incontinence.

Research Objective: The objective of the research was to find out the effect of Kinesiotape along with the Modified Pilates program on subjects with postnatal urinary incontinence.

Methodology: This is an experimental study with randomised clinical trial design and the study setting was Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike, and the included 50 postnatal women who underwent vaginal delivery. The sample was divided into two groups: Group A (25) were subjected to Modified Pilates Program with Kinesiotaping and Group B (25) were subjected to Modified Pilates Program alone. The intervention was conducted for 6 weeks. The outcome measures like: PERFECT Scheme, Questionnaire for Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis and Urogenital Distress Inventory were assessed both pre and post therapy at 6th week.

Results: Pre therapy both groups showed no statistical significance. Post therapy; Group A showed significant result with respect to all three outcome measures PERFECT (<0.0001), QUID (<0.001) and UDI (<0.001) and Group B showed significance only with respect to PERFECT Scheme (<0.05).

Conclusion: The study concluded that Modified Pilates will no doubt strengthen the pelvic floor muscle; but Kinesiotape addition to it will improve the strength by maintaining it and thus increasing the quality of life of the patient. Thus, using kinesiotape during the pelvic floor rehabilitation of Postnatal women with stress incontinence will provide benefit to the patient.

Summary: The current article concludes that Modified Pilates will strengthen the pelvic floor because of the abdominal cylinder involved along with Kinesiotape will add on to reduction in urinary incontinence because of the stimulation of sacral plexus.