Clinical trial NCT05527639: Kegel Exercises Prior to Strength Training to Improvestress Urinary Incontinence
Official title: Does a Kegel Exercise Program Prior to Resistance Training Reduce the Risk of Stress Urinary Incontinence?
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Urinary Incontinence,Stress
Lead sponsor: Charles Darwin University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-02
Enrollment: 24
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A comparative study using data from 2 separate studies. Data used for the resistance training (RT) group from a foundational single cohort that investigated impact of RT on stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in a group of women participating in a RT program who had not previously done Kegel exercises (KE). New data for the KE+RT group was from 2 consecutive studies where the women completed a program of supervised / unsupervised KE. These 19 women took part in 12 weeks of RT to compare against the KE group. The findings of two separate studies in which the effect of RT on SUI and pelvic floor muscle strength was compared between women who completed 12 weeks of RT with or without prior KE. The RT group consisted of 14 women who did not have an experience in RT or KE and completed 12 weeks of RT. Women in the KE plus RT group (n=19) completed 12 weeks of Kegel exercise under the supervision of a qualified pelvic floor specialist; then completed the identical RT program as the RT group
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This comparative pre-post intervention study investigates the feasibility and benefits of Kegel exercises amongst incontinent women, prior to commencing resistance training, to reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence compared to a group of women without prior Kegel exercises.

Detailed description: The aim of the study is to determine whether a program of Kegel exercises prior to a resistance training program will result in reduction of stress urinary incontinence and whether this should be prescribed to incontinent women prior to performing resistance training. It is hypothesized that performing kegel exercises prior to resistance training would improve pelvic floor muscle strength and reduces the odds of experiencing SUI during resistance training.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* being female
* over eighteen years of age
* suffer from stress urinary incontinence
* did not perform Kegel exercises
* had no experience in regular resistance/strength training
* completed a physical activity readiness questionnaire (PAR-Q) form.

Exclusion Criteria:

* pregnancy, breastfeeding

Primary outcomes:
measure: incontinence severity index (ISI) tool
timeFrame: Week 0
measure: incontinence severity index (ISI) tool
timeFrame: Week 12
measure: pelvic floor muscle strength
timeFrame: week 0
measure: pelvic floor muscle strength
timeFrame: week 12
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Darwin
country: Australia
facility: Charles Darwin University
state: Northern Territory
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