Treatment of Urinary Incontinence in Women With Spinal Cord Injury

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) and intravaginal neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) are effective in reducing urinary incontinence and improving quality of life in women with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Clinical Trial Description

SCI patients often experience neurogenic bladder dysfunction with neurogenic detrusor overactivity or areflexic bladder. Due to this, 40-50 % of the SCI population suffers from urinary incontinence, which often reduces the patient's quality of life.

In order to manage the neurogenic bladder dysfunction, SCI patients use specialized bladder emptying methods, most frequently clean intermittent catheterization. To reduce the symptoms of neurogenic detrusor overactivity and urinary incontinence in patients with a SCI, medical anticholinergic therapy can be assessed, but the effect is sparse and many adverse effects have been reported. Injection of Botulinum-A toxin in the bladder has shown great potential in minimizing the symptoms of neurogenic detrusor overactivity and urinary incontinence, though it is an expensive and invasive method that needs to be repeated due to its temporary effect.

PFMT and NMES of the pelvic muscles are non-invasive and cheap treatments without side effects and several studies have demonstrated the positive effect of intravaginal NMES and/or PFMT on urinary incontinence in able-bodied women as well as women with neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis.

Despite the fact that NMES of weak or paralyzed striated muscles has been used for decades in patients suffering from SCI, to our knowledge, no study has previously investigated the effect of PFMT and intravaginal NMES in women with SCI.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of PFMT and intravaginal NMES on Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Life in women with SCI. In particular, we will investigate the potential additional effect of intravaginal NMES, when NMES is conducted in combination with PFMT.

This study is designed as a randomized clinical trial, investigating the effect of PFMT alone and in combination with intravaginal NMES. We will include 40 female patients with an incomplete SCI and urinary incontinence. After physiotherapeutic guidance, the patients perform PFMT or PFMT + NMES daily at home for 12 weeks with follow-up evaluations every fourth week. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02427230
Study type	Interventional
Source	Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen
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Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	May 2015
Completion date	March 2017

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