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

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)

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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.