NCT04759391

Effects of Digital Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Having Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Effects of Digital Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Lifestyle Recommendations in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Having Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ataturk Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of digital pelvic floor muscle training and lifestyle recommendations in patients with Multiple Sclerosis having lower urinary tract symptoms.

Detailed description

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are very common in MS. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is one of the first-line choices for the conservative treatment of LUTS. According to our knowledge, no study has investigated the effects of digital pelvic floor muscle training and lifestyle recommendations in MS having LUTS, yet.

Conditions

• Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	Pelvic floor muscle training program planned under the supervision of a physiotherapist was applied and followed to the exercise group, using the digital application.
OTHER	Lifestyle recommendations	Information was given within the scope of lifestyle recommendations (fluid intake, diet, constipation, weight control, smoking related to lower urinary system symptoms

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-01
• Completion: 2021-07-01
• First posted: 2021-02-18
• Last updated: 2021-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)