NCT06716268

Dynamics of Pelvic Floor Muscles With Different Phonation Patterns Among Female Students

Dynamics of Pelvic Floor Muscles With Different Phonation Patterns Among Female Students: An Observational Study

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to know if there is relation between the dynamics of pelvic floor muscles and different phonation pattern.

Detailed description

Some pelvic floor physical therapists are beginning to experiment with using phonation and vocalization cues to elicit different pelvic floor movements . However, there is a significant gap in the literature about the coordination and movement between the pelvic floor and glottis during speech and phonation, and there is an urgent need to identify the voices accompanied by increasing pelvic floor tone and integrating them into pelvic floor strengthening programs and voices accompanied by lowering pelvic floor tone and integrating them into pelvic floor down-training programs. To date, there has been only one study describing pelvic floor displacement during vocalization tasks. So this study aims to investigate pelvic floor muscle displacement during respiratory and phonatory tasks using trans-abdominal ultrasound to assess respiratory and phonatory tasks that can relax or enhance pelvic floor tone and be integrated into clinical practice.

Conditions

• Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia
• Phonation Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	phonation and respiratory tasks	Participants performed various tasks to evaluate pelvic floor muscle activity and displacement. These included a maximum voluntary contraction ("cutting off the flow of urine mid-stream"), a pelvic floor strain ("bearing down for a bowel movement"), and the Valsalva maneuver to clear the Eustachian tubes. Additionally, phonation and respiratory exercises were conducted, such as producing the "ah" sound at different pitches, open-mouth exhalation, coughing, and semi-occluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercises using a small coffee straw, commonly used in singing warm-ups to enhance vocal efficiency. Each task lasted 3 seconds, with 1-minute rest intervals to assess their impact on pelvic floor displacement

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-03
• Primary completion: 2025-01-03
• Completion: 2025-01-10
• First posted: 2024-12-04
• Last updated: 2024-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt