Effects of Motor Imagery on Skin Conductance and Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition in Healthy Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Valencia
- Enrollment
- 30
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)
Study Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 30 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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.
Arms & Interventions
Motor Imagery plus Isometric Exercise
This group will perform a therapeutic exercise programme (isometric exercises training) to which motor imagery training will be added.
Intervention: Motor Imagery plus therapeutic exercise (Behavioral)
Isometric Exercise
This group will perform a therapeutic exercise programme (isometric exercises training) to which sham motor imagery training will be added.
Intervention: Therapeutic exercises (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- 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))
- 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))
Investigators
Ferran Cuenca
Principal investigator
University of Valencia