The Effect of Pelvic Floor Exercise on Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Sex Life

University of Szeged (SZTE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness; Urinary Incontinence

Treatments: Other: Pelvic floor muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04577872

019234/2014/OTIG

Details and patient eligibility

About

This physiotherapist-guided group training programme should be performed in both the supine and the sitting positions; it is investigated, which is better and more cost-effective in patient motivation.

Full description

Here we aimed to investigate whether-based on trunk muscle synergism-the condition and functioning of the pelvic floor muscle would improve in the sitting and supine postures or in the control group during pelvic floor muscle training with forced exhalation. We enrolled nulliparous women in supine (n = 22), sitting (n = 19) and control (n = 14) groups. We performed the 8-week combined pelvic floor muscle training programme. We examined the effect of training on the parameters with the Kruskal-Wallis test, and the pairwise comparisons with the Mann-Whitney U-test and the Wilcoxon-rank test with the Bonferroni correction.

Enrollment: 55 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• We included in the study groups women participants willing to participate in the study and able to contract the pelvic floor and transversus abdominis muscles correctly. Participants were required to maintain their everyday activities (attending lessons, sport activities, and so on).

Exclusion criteria

• known neurological or rheumatological diseases and previous vaginal or abdominal surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 3 patient groups

Supine group (n=22)

Experimental group

Description:

The 22 participants with lower muscle strength (under 60 microvolt) comprised the supine group.

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle training

Sitting group (n=19)

Experimental group

Description:

The 19 participants with higher muscle strength (over 60 microvolt) formed the sitting group.

Treatment:

Other: Pelvic floor muscle training

Control group (n=14)

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group comprised 7 individuals with lower muscle strength (under 60 microvolt) and 7 with higher muscle strength (over 60 microvolt)