NCT02804048

Physiotherapy Intervention in Climacteric Women With Dyspareunia

Physiotherapy Intervention in Climacteric Women With Dyspareunia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 40 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy intervention techniques in the improvement of dyspareunia in climacteric women. Study design: This is a randomized controlled trial.

Detailed description

Search location: Menopause and Sexuality Clinic of the department of obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Research Center, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA). Patients or participants: The recruited patients may not be vaginal atrophy (cytology-hormone test) and must provide the diagnosis of dyspareunia for more than six months being confirmed by one of the investigators through the pain score above grade 3 (visual analog pain scale) visual inspection, palpation and a questionnaire about the duration and location of pain. Intervention and measures: consist of evaluation of the pelvic floor muscles (Oxford Scale and Perfect), myoelectric assessment (Electromyography), quality of life (Cervantes Scale), sexual function (FSFI), level of depression (Beck Scale) and pain (visual analog pain scale) before and after physical therapy intervention. Expected results: To estimate the effectiveness of pelvic floor training techniques with physical therapy in women with dyspareunia.

Conditions

• Dyspareunia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	superficial heat pelvic floor muscle	Superficial heat application in the pelvic floor muscle
OTHER	superficial heat low back	Superficial heat application in the low back
OTHER	Pelvic Floor Muscle Training	Pelvic floor muscle training exercises
OTHER	Manual therapy in iliopsoas, diaphragm and piriformis	Manual therapy in iliopsoas, diaphragm and piriformis for 10 minutes
OTHER	Intra Vaginal Manual therapy	Intra Vaginal Manual therapy in the pelvic floor muscles
OTHER	Electromyographic biofeedback	Electromyographic biofeedback in the pelvic floor muscles

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2016-06-17
• Last updated: 2016-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil