Effectiveness of Assessment and Educational Intervention on Motor Control of the Pelvic Floor Muscle in Women (MENO_edu)

University of Malaga

Status: Completed

Conditions: Menopause; Perimenopausal Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Tailored assessment and educational

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03220672

Meno_Edu_2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the present study is to evaluate the short and long term effectiveness of a tailored assessment and educational intervention on motor control of the pelvic floor muscle in menopausal and non-menopausal women.

Full description

Menopausal transition has been related to stress urinary incontinence. The transition from the reproductive to the non-reproductive period is induced by a decrease in sex hormone production in the ovaries. Climacteric-stage oestrogen deficiency produces genital and urinary tract atrophy, which may be related to symptoms such as urinary frequency, urinary urgency, nocturia incontinence, and recurrent urinary tract infection. Urinary incontinence seems to appear due to a combination of factors such as pelvic floor weakness and tearing, denervation and fascial tears as well as both loss of motor units and altered activation patterns. However, physiotherapy can treat weakness and altered motor control in order to compensate for other factors. In fact, physiotherapy is considered the treatment of first choice.

Besides evidence defending physiotherapy as first line conservative therapy in incontinence due to influence of strength and motor control in this pathology and its prevalence in perimenopause women, little is known about its effects in this population. Hence, the aim of this study is to evaluate the short and long term effectiveness of a tailored assessment and educational intervention on motor control of the pelvic floor muscle in menopausal and peri-menopausal women.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All participants in this study will sign an informed consent form prior their inclusion, and that whose participation will be voluntary

Exclusion criteria

• Participants will be excluded if they have any cognitive disability, physical disability or psychiatric limitations that could limit the participation on the study test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 1 patient group

Expertimental

Experimental group

Description:

The sample will receive a tailored assessment and educational intervention on Motor Control of the Pelvic Floor Muscle

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tailored assessment and educational