Comparison of Stabilization Exercises and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence

Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stress Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Other: Pelvic floor exercises; Other: Stabilization exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05193435

2022/01/2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to compare the effects of stabilization exercises and pelvic floor muscle training in women with stress urinary incontinence.

Full description

Stress urinary incontinence is involuntary urinary incontinence with increased intraabdominal pressure. Different exercise approaches such as pelvic floor exercises and stabilization exercises are used in these patients. There is a need for studies comparing the effects of these exercises.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women between the ages of 18-65 who have symptoms of stress or stress-dominant mixed urinary incontinence, who volunteered to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Those who are pregnant, have communication and cooperation problems, have a concomitant neurological or rheumatological disease, have a history of surgery involving the abdominal and pelvic regions in the last year, have undergone spine surgery, those diagnosed with pure urge urinary incontinence or mixed type incontinence, those with advanced pelvic organ prolapse, those with a spinal deformity (such as scoliosis), the presence of orthopedic problems in the lower extremities (such as lower extremity shortness, presence of deformity etc.) and vestibular system disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Pelvic floor exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

Pelvic floor exercises for muscle fiber types I and II will performed 3 days a week for 8 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor exercises

Stabilization exercise group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Lumbar spinal stabilization exercises will performed 3 days a week for 8 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Stabilization exercises