Motor Imagery and Isometric Exercises on Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition

Women's Health Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Motor Imagery on Skin Conductance and Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition in Healthy Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06323941
• Other study ID #: UV0003
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: March 14, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: University of Valencia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Mental practice (both in isolation and also in combination with real practice) has been shown to improve somatosensory and motor variables but so far no study has taken it into the study of women's health. Through the present study the investigators want to offer some interesting data regarding the effectiveness of mental practice combined with physical practice.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: March 14, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: March 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Over 18 years of age and asymptomatic women.

Exclusion Criteria:

• This study will exclude those who presented a respiratory pathology, cardiac, systematic, or metabolic disease, history of recent surgery, vertebral fracture, or osteoarticular disorders of the spine area.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Isometric Exercise
• Motor Imagery
• Women's Health

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Motor Imagery plus therapeutic exercise
Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a motor imagery intervention (imagining movements without actually doing them).
• Therapeutic exercises
Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a placebo motor imagery intervention (imagining a blue sky).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Ferran Cuenca Martínez	Valencia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Valencia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)	skin conductance is a measure of sweating which is an excitatory sympathetic monoinervative variable.	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)
Secondary	Algometry for assessing pressure pain thresholds (Pain sensitivity)	An algometer shall be used to assess pain thresholds to pressure, i.e. squeezing so that pressure is converted into pain at two points. One point in the symphysis pubis area, and one point near the tibial tuberosity	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)
Secondary	maximal pelvic floor muscle strength (measured in grams and with the phenix device)	Three measurements of maximal pelvic floor strength shall be performed with an intracavitary probe and the mean of the three measurements of maximal pelvic floor muscle strength shall be considered.	pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)