51
Participants
Start Date
May 2, 2022
Primary Completion Date
April 19, 2023
Study Completion Date
April 19, 2023
Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in female CrossFit and functional fitness exercisers
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 participants in the intervention group will have an individual session with a physiotherapist including thorough teaching on how to perform a correct PFM contraction (clinical exams of pelvic floor muscle function by observation and vaginal digital palpation) and instructions on how to perform the training program. The program consists 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 participants 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 16 weeks and the exercises will take approximately 10 minutes per day to perform.
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Department of Sport Medicine, Oslo
Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
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