Dynamics of Pelvic Floor Muscles With Different Phonation Patterns Among Female Students

Cairo University (CU)

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia

Phonation Disorder

Treatments

Other: phonation and respiratory tasks

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06716268

P.T.REC/012/005285

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to know if there is relation between the dynamics of pelvic floor muscles and different phonation pattern.

Full description

Some pelvic floor physical therapists are beginning to experiment with using phonation and vocalization cues to elicit different pelvic floor movements . However, there is a significant gap in the literature about the coordination and movement between the pelvic floor and glottis during speech and phonation, and there is an urgent need to identify the voices accompanied by increasing pelvic floor tone and integrating them into pelvic floor strengthening programs and voices accompanied by lowering pelvic floor tone and integrating them into pelvic floor down-training programs. To date, there has been only one study describing pelvic floor displacement during vocalization tasks. So this study aims to investigate pelvic floor muscle displacement during respiratory and phonatory tasks using trans-abdominal ultrasound to assess respiratory and phonatory tasks that can relax or enhance pelvic floor tone and be integrated into clinical practice.

Enrollment

20 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 24 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. They should be virgin, healthy female physiotherapy students. 2. They have regular menstruation (3-8 days in duration, with 21-35 days in-between).

Their ages will range from 18 to 25 years old. 4. Their body mass index (BMI) will range from 18 to 24.9 Kg/m2. 5. Their waist- hip ratio will be less than (0.8).

Exclusion criteria