The Effect of Pelvic Floor Exercise on Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Sex Life

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness; Urinary Incontinence
• Interventions: Other: Pelvic floor muscle training

• Registration Number: NCT04577872
• Lead Sponsor: Szeged University

Brief Summary

This physiotherapist-guided group training programme should be performed in both the supine and the sitting positions; it is investigated, which is better and more cost-effective in patient motivation.

Detailed Description

Here we aimed to investigate whether-based on trunk muscle synergism-the condition and functioning of the pelvic floor muscle would improve in the sitting and supine postures or in the control group during pelvic floor muscle training with forced exhalation. We enrolled nulliparous women in supine (n = 22), sitting (n = 19) and control (n = 14) groups. We performed the 8-week combined pelvic floor muscle training programme. We examined the effect of training on the parameters with the Kruskal-Wallis test, and the pairwise comparisons with the Mann-Whitney U-test and the Wilcoxon-rank test with the Bonferroni correction.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-04-30
• Study Completion: 2019-01-31
• Status Verified: 2020-09
• Study First Submitted: 2020-09-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-10-06
• Study First Posted: 2020-10-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-11-09
• Last Update Posted: 2020-11-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 55

Inclusion Criteria

• We included in the study groups women participants willing to participate in the study and able to contract the pelvic floor and transversus abdominis muscles correctly. Participants were required to maintain their everyday activities (attending lessons, sport activities, and so on).

Exclusion Criteria

• known neurological or rheumatological diseases and previous vaginal or abdominal surgery.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Sitting group (n=19)	Pelvic floor muscle training	The 19 participants with higher muscle strength (over 60 microvolt) formed the sitting group.
Supine group (n=22)	Pelvic floor muscle training	The 22 participants with lower muscle strength (under 60 microvolt) comprised the supine group.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Investigation of the effects of the pelvic floor muscle training (PFM-T)	28 months	It is measured the change of the pelvic floor muscle with Vaginal surface electromyography (vsEMG).