Pelvic Floor Muscle Training With and Without Hypopressive Exercises in Postmenopausal Females.

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

36

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 1, 2022

Primary Completion Date

August 1, 2023

Study Completion Date

August 1, 2023

Conditions
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Interventions
OTHER

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

OTHER

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

Trial Locations (1)

64000

Jinnah hospital, Lahore

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Riphah International University

OTHER