Pelvic Floor Exercise Before Surgery in Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse (CONTRAPOP)

St. Olavs Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pelvic Floor Disorders; Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Treatments: Behavioral: pelvic floor exercises; Other: Waiting list

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03064750

2015/1751

Details and patient eligibility

About

The lifetime risk for a woman to undergo surgery for either vaginal prolapse or urinary incontinence is high. There are many different surgical techniques for treatment of prolapse, but there is a lack of knowledge about factors that contribute to objective result and patient satisfaction after surgery.

The aim of the study is to investigate factors that could be related to patient satisfaction and objective result such as pelvic floor muscle contractility/strength and muscle injury, objective measures of prolapse and women's symptoms. This study will investigate whether systematic pelvic floor exercise and life style advise before surgery can improve outcomes after surgery for either vaginal prolapse. Another aim is to determine an ultrasound scale for measure of pelvic floor muscle contraction.

Enrollment: 151 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• referred to surgery for urogenital prolapse
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• not able to communicate in Norwegian or English
• not able or willing to sign informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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151 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-surgery exercise

Experimental group

Description:

pelvic floor exercises individually and in groups

Treatment:

Behavioral: pelvic floor exercises

Waiting list

Other group

Description:

wait as usual until surgery

Treatment:

Other: Waiting list