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Investigation of The Effect of Pelvic Floor Exercise Programme in Elderly.

A

Akdeniz University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Quality of Life
Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness
Sexual Dysfunction
Urinary Incontinence in Old Age

Treatments

Other: Exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04036604
2012-KAEK-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Alteration of hormonal structure and decreasing of muscle tissue with aging causes pelvic floor dysfunction. Over age of 65 so many factors such as decrease in volume of muscle tissue, decrease in the amount of estrogen / testosterone, and low level of physical activity cause problems such as incontinence, prolapse, constipation and sexual dysfunction The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercise program on sexual dysfunction, incontinence, quality of life and physical activity level in elderly.

Full description

Pelvic floor problems including prolapse, voiding and defecation dysfunction have been seen in approximately 37% of women aged 60-79 years and incontinence is the leading pelvic floor dysfunction. The International Incontinence Society (ICS)defines that all types of involuntarily urinary leakage as urinary incontinence. The incidence of urinary incontinence is 26.6% in women aged 65-74 and 41.8% in patients aged 75 and over. Sexual dysfunction is also frequently encountered problem in pelvic floor disorders in people older than 65 years. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of pelvic floor exercise program on sexual dysfunction, incontinence, quality of life and physical activity level in elderly. Pelvic floor exercises programme contains different contractions of pelvic floor muscle. Each exercises have slow and fast twitch muscle exercise contraction.

Enrollment

94 patients

Sex

All

Ages

65 to 75 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

To be aged over 65 To attend all exercise class Not to be communication problem

Exclusion criteria

To have neurogenic bladder To have metastatic prostate or ovary cancer To have enfection in urinary tractus To have pelvic organs malign diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

94 participants in 2 patient groups

Group of pelvic floor exercise
Experimental group
Description:
Group of pelvic floor exercise include 47 elderly people which contains contraction and repetition of pelvic floor muscle exercises during twice a week for 8 weeks performed by an expert pelvic health physiotherapist.
Treatment:
Other: Exercise
Group of pelvic floor education
No Intervention group
Description:
Group of pelvic floor education include 47 elderly people which contains anatomy of pelvic floor and dysfunction during once a week for 8 weeks performed by an expert pelvic health physiotherapist.

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