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Effectiveness of Adding Voluntary Pelvic Floor Muscle Contraction to a Pilates Exercises Program

NCT02748473 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 57

Last updated 2016-04-25

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Summary

Adding voluntary pelvic floor muscle contraction to a Pilates exercises program can improve the pelvic floor muscle strength on sedentary nulliparous women.

Conditions

  • Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

OTHER

Pilates Exercises program

The volunteers were divided in two groups: Group I: Pilates exercise program involving only the Pilates exercises protocol Group II: Pilates exercises program with voluntary pelvic floor muscle contraction. The protocol of both groups consisted of 24 bi-weekly 1-h individual sessions of Pilates exercises program. Both groups performed the same protocol . For the group PEP + PFMC the instructor asked for the maximum contraction muscle of the pelvic floor muscle, during expirations with 5 repetitions performed alternately, thus avoiding pelvic floor muscle exhaustion. After the 24 sessions, both groups were retested with the same measured methods of the baseline.

OTHER

Pelvic floor muscle strength

evaluated the pelvic floor strength by oxford scale and vaginal pressure before and after the 12 sessions with Pilates Exercises Program on sedentary nulliparous women

OTHER

3D perineal ultrasound

evaluated the pubovisceral muscle thickness and levator hiatus area by 3D perineal ultrasound before and after the 12 sessions with Pilates Exercises Program on sedentary nulliparous women

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Federal University of São Paulo

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2015-09-30

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