This comparative pre-post intervention study investigates the feasibility and benefits of Kegel exercises amongst incontinent women, prior to commencing resistance training, to reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence compared to a group of women without prior Kegel exercises.
The aim of the study is to determine whether a program of Kegel exercises prior to a resistance training program will result in reduction of stress urinary incontinence and whether this should be prescribed to incontinent women prior to performing resistance training. It is hypothesized that performing kegel exercises prior to resistance training would improve pelvic floor muscle strength and reduces the odds of experiencing SUI during resistance training.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
24
12-weeks of strength training consisting of warm ups, dead-lifts, squats and cool down exercises
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
incontinence severity index (ISI) tool
questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence
Time frame: Week 0
incontinence severity index (ISI) tool
questionnaire for self-reported frequency and severity of urinary incontinence. the higher the score, the higher the impact of incontinence
Time frame: Week 12
pelvic floor muscle strength
physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry
Time frame: week 0
pelvic floor muscle strength
physiotherapist report from digital palpation and perineometry
Time frame: week 12
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