The study aim is to evaluate the ability to correctly contract pelvic floor muscle among physiotherapy students before and after "women health" course. Pelvic floor muscle contraction will be evaluated via transabdominal ultrasound.
Physiotherapy students during their studying in the physiotherapy Bachelor degree program will be examined. Students will be divided into 2 groups according to their year of studying (if they already studied "women health course or not implying 4th year students compared with 1-3 year level students). Each participant will be asked to contract the pelvic floor muscles. The assessment of pelvic floor contraction will be measured by measuring bladder displacement via abdominal ultrasound. A curved linear array transducer will be placed in the transverse plane immediately suprapubically over the lower abdomen angled at 15-30 degrees from the vertical. Upward movement of the bladder during contraction will be marked as correct contraction. An on screen caliper and measurement tool will be used to measure bladder amount of bladder displacement.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
30
Ultrasound examination will be performed to asses urinary bladder displacement being a marker for pelvic floor muscle function
Haifa University, Department of PHysical Therapy
Haifa, Israel
direction of urinary bladder displacement during contraction
upward or downward displacement of urinary bladder will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound
Time frame: baseline
urinary bladder displacement in millimeters
bladder displacement will be measured via diagnostic ultrasound using the on screen caliper tool
Time frame: baseline
pelvic floor muscles endurance of contraction in seconds
time of muscle contraction will be measured during the last contraction
Time frame: baseline
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