[Critical evaluation of P-C test parameters in screening pelvic musculature activity]

The P-C test was performed on 296 unselected women to verify if its parameters were all useful for a screening program: the 0-5 contraction strength score resulted unnecessarily too elaborated, a linear relationship was always seen between muscular endurance and contraction strength, muscular exhaustion was never detected during the testing, antagonist muscular synergies were observed only in some of the patients with low contraction strength score; marked agonist synergies were never detected. For screening purpose therefore could be sufficient to evaluate only the contraction strength identifying three levels of its activity: no activity, low activity, good activity.