Does the videogame training increases the power of the female pelvic floor muscles?

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• Conditions: pelvic posture, pelvic floor contractility and urogynecologic symptoms.; C06.405.469.860.300; C12.777.934.852; C23.300.842.624

• Registration Number: RBR-8tsrb7
• Lead Sponsor: niversidade Federal de Alfenas

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-04-02
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruitment completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

Women aged from 40 years.

Exclusion Criteria

Presence of urinary tract infection; having performed previously, pelvic floor muscles training supervised by a professional health; Carriers myopathies and diseases with known alteration of collagen; Carriers neurological abnormalities, cognitive disorders and physical limitations that preclude participation in the study; presence of dystopia of grade III or IV found by physical examination by Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System - POP-Q.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Improvement in contractility of the pelvic floor muscles assessed by vaginal dynamometry after the virtual rehabilitation (10 sessions); Understand what the relationship between the normal pelvic posture (assessed by photogrammetry), contractility of the pelvic floor muscles (assessed by vaginal dynamometry) and transversus abdominis / internal oblique (assessed using surface electromyography) in women from 40 years (10 sessions).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Improvement of urogynecological symptoms evaluated using specific and validated questionnaires before and after the intervention (10 sessions); Improvement of pelvic posture assessed by photogrammetry before and after the intervention (10 sessions); Improvement of co-activation between pelvic floor muscles and transversus abdominis / internal oblique muscles, evaluated, respectively, by vaginal dynamometry and surface electromyography before and after the intervention; Improvement of vaginal dystopias evaluated using the Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System - POP-Q, after the intervention (10 sessions).