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Urinary incontinence is a complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine. This ailment occurs twice as often in women than men and its frequency increases with age. Approximately 25% of women of childbearing age and 50% of postmenopausal women have problems with incontinence. In Poland it is estimated that about 5 million people suffer from this affliction. More than half of all cases of incontinence are related to stress urinary incontinence. The treatment of urinary incontinence could be divided into conservative and surgical. The contemporary state of knowledge on physiotherapy - which is one of the main methods of conservative treatment and prevention - in stress urinary incontinence has been described in three review papers. Part I presented recommendations for using Kegel exercises in stress urinary incontinence. Part II focuses on current biofeedback methods