360 Degree Expanded Diaphragm Exercises in Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence

Izmir University of Economics

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise; Diaphragmatic Breathing; Stress Urinary Incontinence; Intra-abdominal Pressure

Treatments: Other: Pelvic floor muscle training with 360 degree expanded diaphragm exercises; Other: Pelvic floor muscle training with standard diaphragm exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06120699

SYY_İEÜ_2

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned to examine and compare the effects of standard diaphragm exercises with Pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) and 360-degree expanded diaphragm exercises with PFME on urinary symptoms, PFM functions and quality of life in women with stress urinary incontinence.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 62 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a woman,
• Participating in the research voluntarily,
• Being between the ages of 18-62,
• Ability to read and write Turkish,
• Not having any mental problems that would prevent cooperation and understanding,
• Having a complaint of stress urinary incontinence or stress-predominant mixed urinary incontinence.

Exclusion criteria

• Having received pelvic floor training before,
• Having a neurological disease,
• Pelvic organ prolapse stage is stage 2 or higher,
• Having fecal incontinence,
• Being pregnant,
• Lower extremity problems that may affect the pelvic structure (conditions such as lower extremity inequality, total hip arthroplasty)
• Having an active lower urinary tract infection,
• Having respiratory system diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma,
• Having undergone hysterectomy surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

360 Degree Expanded Diaphragm Exercises

Experimental group

Description:

Volunteers who complain of urinary incontinence in situations such as coughing, sneezing and laughing, who have been diagnosed with stress or stress-predominant mixed urinary incontinence by a Gynecology and Obstetrics physician, and who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the study.

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle training with 360 degree expanded diaphragm exercises

Standard Diaphragm Exercises

Active Comparator group

Description:

Volunteers who complain of urinary incontinence in situations such as coughing, sneezing and laughing, who have been diagnosed with stress or stress-predominant mixed urinary incontinence by a Gynecology and Obstetrics physician, and who meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the study.

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle training with standard diaphragm exercises