Kegel Exercises Prior to Strength Training to Improvestress Urinary Incontinence

Urinary Incontinence,Stress Clinical Trial

Official title:

Does a Kegel Exercise Program Prior to Resistance Training Reduce the Risk of Stress Urinary Incontinence?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05527639
• Other study ID #: CharlesDarwinU
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 18, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 18, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: Charles Darwin University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: December 18, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 18, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Enuresis
• Urinary Incontinence
• Urinary Incontinence, Stress
• Urinary Incontinence,Stress

Intervention

Behavioral:
• strength training program
12-weeks of strength training consisting of warm ups, dead-lifts, squats and cool down exercises

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	Charles Darwin University	Darwin	Northern Territory

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Charles Darwin University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Australia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	incontinence severity index (ISI) tool	questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence	Week 0
Primary	incontinence severity index (ISI) tool	questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence	Week 12
Primary	pelvic floor muscle strength	physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry	week 0
Primary	pelvic floor muscle strength	physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry	week 12