Adductor Strengthening and Pelvic Floor Muscle Strengthening Exercises on Stress Incontinence in Gym Females

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urinary Incontinence, Stress

Treatments: Other: Pelvic floor muscle plus adductor strengthening; Other: Pelvic floor muscle exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04994041

REC/Lhr/21/0415 Irum

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stress incontinence is common form of urinary incontinence in females. The theme is to test if pelvic floor muscle training can be augmented by incorporating adductor muscle strengthening. Group A: with pelvic floor muscle strengthening plus adductor is strengthening. Group B: with pelvic floor muscle strengthening.

Full description

Stress incontinence is common form of urinary incontinence in females. When it develops in gym doing women, it badly affects their performance and result in psychosocial problems in addition to the barriers that already have been resulted from incontinence. This study combines simple regime of hip adductor a strengthening with pelvic floor muscles. The theme is to test if pelvic floor muscle training can be augmented by incorporating adductor muscle strengthening. If this comes out to be effective, this can be great contribution to gym doing females to improve their urinary incontinence related impairments. Woman would be encouraged to continue regular exercise. This will be randomized clinical trial. There are two groups for the compression of adductors strengthening and pelvic floor muscle strengthening. Group A: with pelvic floor muscle strengthening plus adductor is strengthening. Group B: with pelvic floor muscle strengthening. The collected data will be entered in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 20.0, Descriptive and Inferential statists will be applied. Results and conclusion will be drawn.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women aged 25-45 years of age
• Engaged in gym exercises
• Fulfilling signs and symptoms of stress incontinence

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant females
• Females having any history of trauma
• Any neurological disorders affecting bowl bladder
• Any malignancy in lower abdominal area

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Pelvic floor muscle plus adductor strengthening

Experimental group

Description:

pelvic floor muscle plus adductor strengthening

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle plus adductor strengthening

Pelvic floor muscle exercises

Active Comparator group

Description:

pelvic floor muscle exercises

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle exercises