Pelvic Floor Muscle Contraction Among Physiotherapy Students Before and After "Women Health" Course

Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pelvic Floor Muscle Contraction Among Physiotherapy Students Before and After "Women Health" Course

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03917615
• Other study ID #: 123/19
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 8, 2019
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University of Haifa
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aim is to evaluate the ability to correctly contract pelvic floor muscle among physiotherapy students before and after "women health" course. Pelvic floor muscle contraction will be evaluated via transabdominal ultrasound.

Description:

Physiotherapy students during their studying in the physiotherapy Bachelor degree program will be examined. Students will be divided into 2 groups according to their year of studying (if they already studied "women health course or not implying 4th year students compared with 1-3 year level students). Each participant will be asked to contract the pelvic floor muscles.

The assessment of pelvic floor contraction will be measured by measuring bladder displacement via abdominal ultrasound. A curved linear array transducer will be placed in the transverse plane immediately suprapubically over the lower abdomen angled at 15-30 degrees from the vertical. Upward movement of the bladder during contraction will be marked as correct contraction. An on screen caliper and measurement tool will be used to measure bladder amount of bladder displacement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy students

• willing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• has been treated before for pelvic floor rehabilitation

• active urinary tract infection

• pregnancy

• previous abdominal surgeries

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Muscle Weakness
• Paresis
• Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness

Intervention

Other:
• pelvic floor contraction
Ultrasound examination will be performed to asses urinary bladder displacement being a marker for pelvic floor muscle function

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Haifa University, Department of PHysical Therapy	Haifa

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Haifa

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

References & Publications (1)

Ben Ami N, Dar G. What is the most effective verbal instruction for correctly contracting the pelvic floor muscles? Neurourol Urodyn. 2018 Nov;37(8):2904-2910. doi: 10.1002/nau.23810. Epub 2018 Aug 28. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	direction of urinary bladder displacement during contraction	upward or downward displacement of urinary bladder will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound	baseline
Primary	urinary bladder displacement in millimeters	bladder displacement will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound using the on screen caliper tool	baseline
Secondary	pelvic floor muscles endurance of contraction in seconds	time of muscle contraction will be measured during the last contraction	baseline