NCT03000647

Guided Versus Non-guided Pelvic Floor Exercises for Urinary Incontinence in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Assessment of the Effectiveness of Guided by a Physiotherapist Versus Non-guided Pelvic Floor Exercises for Urinary Incontinence (UI) in Patients With Relapsing-Remitting (RR) Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of guided versus non guided pelvic floor exercises for urinary incontinence in patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Detailed description

Subjects of the study should conduct a specific training in pelvic floor exercises. They were randomly assigned into 2 groups: Group A only received written instructions for exercises to be performed at home; Group B received written instructions and, in addition, exercises were performed in a 30 minutes weekly session with a physiotherapist guiding them

Conditions

• Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
• Urinary Incontinence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pelvic floor exercises guided by a physiotherapist	Subjects perform two types of contractions of the pelvic floor in two different positions 3 times a day and once a week they check it with a physiotherapist (this day only they do it twice at home)
PROCEDURE	Non guided pelvic floor exercises	Subjects perform two types of contractions of the pelvic floor in two different positions 3 times a day. They do not attend to meetings with a physiotherapist

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2016-12-22
• Last updated: 2019-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain