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Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Gymnasts With Stress Urinary Incontinence

NCT04122898 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2022-04-05

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Summary

There is a high prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) among female athletes participating in high impact sports, such as artistic gymnastics, trampoline jumping and ball games. UI is defined as "the complaint of involuntary loss of urine". Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the most common type of UI and is defined as "the complaint of involuntary loss of urine on effort or physical exertion (e.g. sporting activities), or or sneezing or coughing". Urinary leakage during sport activities may affect the athletes' performance, cause bother, frustration and embarrassment and furthermore lead to avoidance and cessation of sport activities. Pelvic floor muscle (PFM) training is highly effective in treating SUI in the general female population. However, evidence of the effect of PFM training in elite athletes in high impact sports is sparse.

The purpose of this assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to assess the effect of PFM training on symptoms, bother and amount of SUI in female artistic gymnasts, team gymnasts and cheerleaders.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Pelvic Floor Muscle Training

The intervention will consist of a home-based PFM training program with weekly follow-up by phone by a physiotherapist. Before commencing PFM training, the gymnasts in the intervention group will have an individual session with a physiotherapist including thorough teaching on how to perform a correct PFM contraction (inward lift of the pelvic floor assessed with suprapubic 2D ultrasound) and instructions on how to perform the training program. The athletes will be offered at least one individual follow-up session with the same physiotherapist during the intervention period. The program will consist of 3 sets of 8-12 maximum contractions per day. An electronic app (Athlete monitoring) will be used to assess adherence to the program. The athletes will be asked to register their training sessions in a personal account. A reminder to adhere to the program will be sent by phone. The training period will be 3 months and the exercises will take approximately 10 minutes per day to perform.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kari Bø, PhD · Norwegian School of School of Sport Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-20
Primary Completion
2020-08-19
Completion
2020-08-19

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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