Effects of Physical Training and Isoflavone Supplementation On Pelvic Floor in Women in the Postmenopausal Period

Federal University of Uberlandia

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pelvic Floor

Treatments: Other: Exercise; Other: isoflavone; Other: placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03167827

CEP UFU 52969515.1.0000.5152

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of Physical Training and Supplementation of Isoflavone About Pelvic Floor Musculature in Women in the Postmenopausal period, and it has two groups the intervetion.

Full description

The practice of physical exercise and isoflavone supplementation are ways of treating symptoms of climacteric, there is a lack of evidence as to whether these therapeutics when associated are useful for improving the strength, function, contraction pressure, electrical activity of the pelvic floor musculature of women in the Postmenopausal period.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy postmenopausal woman
• to be able to practice exercises on treadmill and weight exercises
• without physical complications that prevent the execution of physical exercises
• have no history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, renal pathologies or hypertension
• Present ability to contract the pelvic floor muscles

Exclusion criteria

• Smokers
• Use hormone therapy or isoflavone
• Use drugs that interfere with lipid and antihypertensive metabolism
• Presence of cognitive impairment or neurological condition that could affect muscle activation
• Present urinary tract infection at the time of data collection
• Training pelvic floor muscle

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Group isoflavone and exercise

Experimental group

Description:

The isoflavone group received daily 100mg of isoflavones.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: isoflavone

Group placebo and exercise

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The placebo group received 100mg containing starch of corn.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: placebo