Motor Imagery and Isometric Exercises on Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition

University of Valencia30 enrolled

Overview

Mental practice (both in isolation and also in combination with real practice) has been shown to improve somatosensory and motor variables but so far no study has taken it into the study of women's health. Through the present study the investigators want to offer some interesting data regarding the effectiveness of mental practice combined with physical practice.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Isometric Exercise Motor Imagery Women's Health

Interventions

Motor Imagery plus therapeutic exerciseBEHAVIORAL

Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a motor imagery intervention (imagining movements without actually doing them).

Therapeutic exercisesBEHAVIORAL

Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a placebo motor imagery intervention (imagining a blue sky).

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 30 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Over 18 years of age and asymptomatic women. Exclusion Criteria: * This study will exclude those who presented a respiratory pathology, cardiac, systematic, or metabolic disease, history of recent surgery, vertebral fracture, or osteoarticular disorders of the spine area.

Locations (1)

Ferran Cuenca Martínez

Valencia, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)

skin conductance is a measure of sweating which is an excitatory sympathetic monoinervative variable.

Time frame: pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)

Secondary Outcomes

Algometry for assessing pressure pain thresholds (Pain sensitivity)

An algometer shall be used to assess pain thresholds to pressure, i.e. squeezing so that pressure is converted into pain at two points. One point in the symphysis pubis area, and one point near the tibial tuberosity

Time frame: pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)

maximal pelvic floor muscle strength (measured in grams and with the phenix device)

Three measurements of maximal pelvic floor strength shall be performed with an intracavitary probe and the mean of the three measurements of maximal pelvic floor muscle strength shall be considered.

Time frame: pre-intervention (T0), and inmmediate post-intervention (T1) (between the first and the second measurement, about 60 minutes have elapsed because it is done on the same day)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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