36
Participants
Start Date
September 1, 2022
Primary Completion Date
August 1, 2023
Study Completion Date
August 1, 2023
hypopressive exercises
patients will receive pelvic floor muscle training with hypopressive exercises at outpatient department. Treatment will continue for 12 weeks 3 days per week. They will receive information about the localization and function of the PFM and transversus abdominis (TrA) muscles. Next, lying in a supine position with flexed knees and hips, they will localize their own pelvic floor with the help of touching their perineum. Then they will be instructed how to contract the PFM correctly, then they will directed to contract PFMs and in the end participants will be taught how to voluntarily contract the PFM simultaneously with diaphragmatic Aspiration(8-10 repetitions daily
pelvic floor muscle training
patients will receive only pelvic floor muscle training exercises(pelvic floor muscle contractions) at the outpatient department and treatment will continue for 12 weeks 3 days per week. PFMT will be performed in the lying, sitting and standing positions. The patients will be instructed to perform three sets of 8-12 maximum voluntary contractions held for 6 sec, with 12 sec of rest between each contraction, followed by three fast contractions in a row
Jinnah hospital, Lahore
Riphah International University
OTHER