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title: Kegel Exercises Prior to Strength Training to Improvestress Urinary Incontinence
nct_id: NCT05527639
overall_status: COMPLETED
phase: NA
sponsor: Charles Darwin University
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Urinary Incontinence,Stress
countries: Australia
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# Kegel Exercises Prior to Strength Training to Improvestress Urinary Incontinence

**Official Title:** Does a Kegel Exercise Program Prior to Resistance Training Reduce the Risk of Stress Urinary Incontinence?

**NCT ID:** [NCT05527639](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05527639)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 24
- **Lead Sponsor:** Charles Darwin University
- **Conditions:** Urinary Incontinence,Stress
- **Start Date:** 2019-05-18
- **Completion Date:** 2019-12-18
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2023-08-07

## Brief Summary

This comparative pre-post intervention study investigates the feasibility and benefits of Kegel exercises amongst incontinent women, prior to commencing resistance training, to reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence compared to a group of women without prior Kegel exercises.

## Detailed Description

The aim of the study is to determine whether a program of Kegel exercises prior to a resistance training program will result in reduction of stress urinary incontinence and whether this should be prescribed to incontinent women prior to performing resistance training. It is hypothesized that performing kegel exercises prior to resistance training would improve pelvic floor muscle strength and reduces the odds of experiencing SUI during resistance training.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** FEMALE
- **Healthy Volunteers:** Yes

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Inclusion Criteria:

* being female
* over eighteen years of age
* suffer from stress urinary incontinence
* did not perform Kegel exercises
* had no experience in regular resistance/strength training
* completed a physical activity readiness questionnaire (PAR-Q) form.

Exclusion Criteria:

* pregnancy, breastfeeding
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## Arms

- **intervention group during study** (OTHER) — all participants completed a 12 week strength training program consisting of warm up exercises, dead-lifts and squats. They had all completed a program of Kegel exercise prior.
- **control group during study** (OTHER) — all participants completed a 12 week strength training program consisting of warm up exercises, dead-lifts and squats

## Interventions

- **strength training program** (BEHAVIORAL) — 12-weeks of strength training consisting of warm ups, dead-lifts, squats and cool down exercises

## Primary Outcomes

- **incontinence severity index (ISI) tool** _(time frame: Week 0)_ — questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence
- **incontinence severity index (ISI) tool** _(time frame: Week 12)_ — questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence
- **pelvic floor muscle strength** _(time frame: week 0)_ — physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry
- **pelvic floor muscle strength** _(time frame: week 12)_ — physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry

## Locations (1)

- Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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