Can Women Correctly Contract Their Pelvic Floor Muscles After to Receive Verbal Instructions and Vaginal Palpation?

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

176

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

December 20, 2017

Primary Completion Date

November 27, 2022

Study Completion Date

July 31, 2023

Conditions
Urinary IncontinenceUrinary Incontinence, StressUrination DisordersLower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Interventions
OTHER

Visual observation

Verbal instructions about the anatomy, function and how to perform the pelvic floor muscle contraction

OTHER

Vaginal palpation (bidigital touch)

The physiotherapist touched the patients' perineal region (vulva, tendinous centre of the perineum and external region of the anal canal) with a spatula and asked them to identify the pointed region; and with the digital palpation, the physiotherapist touched the tendinous centre of the perineum, pressing it in the cranial direction, and instructed the patients to contract the pelvic floor muscle

Trial Locations (1)

04042005

Letícia de Azevedo Ferreira, São Paulo

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Federal University of São Paulo

OTHER

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