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Benefits of Peri-surgical Physical Therapy in the Management of III and IV Grades of Pelvic Organ Prolapse

NCT02846480 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2018-05-15

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Summary

To find out the effectiveness of physical therapy associated with the surgical treatment over the simptoms and quality of life in III and IV grades of pelvic organ prolapse, patients will be randomly assigned to one of these groups: experimental group: pre-surgical and post-surgical physical therapy + behavioral education + surgical therapy. Control group: surgical treatment + behavioral education.

In both groups several physical therapy assessments will be undertaken: 1st before surgery; 2nd immediately after surgery; and after 6 weeks, 3th, 6th, 12th and 24th months post-surgery.

Conditions

  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Interventions

OTHER

physical therapy

Pre-surgical Physical Therapy: physical therapy aimed to correct the posture, to the awareness and the strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles. Post-surgical Physical Therapy: checking the correct contraction of the pelvic floor muscles and hypopressive exercises.

OTHER

surgical treatment

Surgical correction of POP.

OTHER

behavior therapy

At hospital discharge, patients will receive a fact sheet on the sanitary and behavioral measures recommended for the prevention of POP and urinary incontinence (proper weight, prevent constipation, avoid weight bearing and cough and high impact exercise).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitario Principe de Asturias

    collaborator OTHER

  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • BEATRIZ SANCHEZ SANCHEZ

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria José Yuste, PHD · Alcalá University

  • María Torres, PHD · Alcalá University

  • Beatriz Navarro, PHD · Alcalá University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-06-30
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2017-06-30

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