Motor Imagery and Isometric Exercises on Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Women's Health; Motor Imagery; Isometric Exercise
• Interventions: Behavioral: Therapeutic exercises; Behavioral: Motor Imagery plus therapeutic exercise

• Registration Number: NCT06323941
• Lead Sponsor: University of Valencia

Brief Summary

Mental practice (both in isolation and also in combination with real practice) has been shown to improve somatosensory and motor variables but so far no study has taken it into the study of women's health. Through the present study the investigators want to offer some interesting data regarding the effectiveness of mental practice combined with physical practice.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-11-01
• Status Verified: 2024-03
• Primary Completion: 2024-03-01
• Study Completion: 2024-03-14
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-03-14
• Study First Posted: 2024-03-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-03-21
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Over 18 years of age and asymptomatic women.

Exclusion Criteria

• This study will exclude those who presented a respiratory pathology, cardiac, systematic, or metabolic disease, history of recent surgery, vertebral fracture, or osteoarticular disorders of the spine area.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Isometric Exercise	Therapeutic exercises	This group will perform a therapeutic exercise programme (isometric exercises training) to which sham motor imagery training will be added.
Motor Imagery plus Isometric Exercise	Motor Imagery plus therapeutic exercise	This group will perform a therapeutic exercise programme (isometric exercises training) to which motor imagery training will be added.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)	skin conductance is a measure of sweating which is an excitatory sympathetic monoinervative variable.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
maximal pelvic floor muscle strength (measured in grams and with the phenix device)	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)	Three measurements of maximal pelvic floor strength shall be performed with an intracavitary probe and the mean of the three measurements of maximal pelvic floor muscle strength shall be considered.
Algometry for assessing pressure pain thresholds (Pain sensitivity)	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)	An algometer shall be used to assess pain thresholds to pressure, i.e. squeezing so that pressure is converted into pain at two points. One point in the symphysis pubis area, and one point near the tibial tuberosity

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ferran Cuenca Martínez; 🇪🇸 Valencia, Spain