Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise on Body Posture

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Telerehabilitation; Diaphragmatic Breathing; Body Posture; Quality of Life; Pelvic Floor Muscle Training
• Interventions: Other: exercises

• Registration Number: NCT05410704
• Lead Sponsor: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Brief Summary

This study; It will be done in order to show evidence of the effects of pelvic floor muscle training and diaphragmatic breathing exercise via telerehabilitation on body posture and quality of life in healthy individuals. International Physical Activity Quastionnaire Short Form (IPAQ), Pelvic Floor Impact Quastionnaire Short Form (PFIQ-7), 36-Item Short Form Survey(SF-36) and New York Posture Rating Chart will be applied.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-12-01
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-28
• Primary Completion: 2022-05-30
• Study Completion: 2022-05-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-06-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-05
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-08
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 36

Inclusion Criteria

• Body Mass Index between 18-25
• Being a woman over the age of 18

Exclusion Criteria

• obstructive or restrictive lung disease
• diagnosed with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse
• pelvic pain
• history of pelvic surgery
• Any history of spinal, thoracic or abdominal surgery
• To smoke
• cardiac, neurological and rheumatological disease
• Congenital deformity or previous history of surgery in the spine and thorax
• endocrine and metabolic disease
• psychiatric disorders
• cardiological disorders
• malignancy
• Doing regular physical activity or sports for the last 3 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Study Group	exercises	Pelvic floor muscle exercises and diaphragmatic breathing exercises will be performed 3 times a week for 12 weeks. New York Posture Rating Scale and SF-36 will be applied before and after the study. International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire will be applied before the study.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of Quality of Life	baseline	36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36). On the scale, higher scores mean a better outcome. The SF-36 consists of eight scaled scores, which are the weighted sums of the questions in their section. Each scale is directly transformed into a 0-100 scale on the assumption that each question carries equal weight.
Assessment of Body Posture	baseline	New York Posture Rating Chart. On the scale, each body segment was scored 5 (correct posture), 3 (slight deviation), or 1 (pronounced deviation). The scores of the body alignment segments are summed, allowing a range of overall score between 13 and 65. Higher scores mean a better outcome.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of Physical Activity Level	baseline	International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short form (IPAQ-SF) The questionnaire records the activity of four intensity levels: 1) vigorous-intensity activity such as aerobics, 2) moderate-intensity activity such as leisure cycling, 3) walking, and 4) sitting.
Assessment of Pelvic Floor Muscle Function	baseline	Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ). The PFIQ 7 has 7 questions and each question has 3 separate responses. The response to each item of satisfaction, impact and worry was rated from 3 (quite a bit) to 0 (not at all) for the PFIQ-7. The mean value for all the answered items within the corresponding scale (possible value 0-3) was estimated, then multiplied by (100/3) to obtain the scale score, range 0-100. We added the scores from the 3 scales together to obtain the PFIQ 7 summary score (range 0-300).For the scale, a higher score indicates worse health status.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tülay Ülkü SEVİM; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey