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The Efficacy of Pre-operative Educational Pelvic Floor Intervention on Urinary Continence

NCT03714984 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2024-04-17

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Summary

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer between male population and urinary incontinence (UI) is the most common of long-term sequelae. Nowadays, robotic prostatectomy became the surgery standard but there is still discrepant results regards the incidence of UI and there is a lack of studies about the use of pelvic floor rehabilitation in this population. Our study aims to assesses the efficacy of preoperative educational method in urinary incontinence after robotic prostatectomy.

Conditions

  • Prostatectomy
  • Pelvic Floor Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

Pre operative exercise

After randomization participants will be allocated in two groups. The educational pelvic floor intervention group will receive two months before surgery a physiotherapy visit were will be explain to patients and care giver the pelvic floor anatomy and biomechanics and how perform the exercises to be follow at home focusing on pelvic muscles awareness and contraction.

OTHER

Control Group

The control group will be just informed about the study protocol and will not receive any pre-operative intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • European Institute of Oncology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Luiz Felipe Nevola Teixeira, PT · European Institute of Oncology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-15
Primary Completion
2019-12-04
Completion
2023-12-04

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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