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NCT Number: NCT06073210

Mental Practice and Therapeutic Exercise in Young Nulliparous Women

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 this study we want to offer some interesting data regarding the effectiveness of mental practice combined with physical practice.

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Key information

Conditions

Therapeutic Exercise Action Observation Motor Imagery

Age range

18 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Ferran Cuenca Martínez

Valencia, 46017, Spain

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Motor Imagery Plus Therapeutic Exercise

Behavioral

Aerobic exercise (20 minutes) and strengthening exercise (15 minutes) to which will be added a motor imagery intervention (imagining movements without actually doing them).

Action observation plus therapeutic exercise

Behavioral

Aerobic exercise (20 minutes) and strengthening exercise (15 minutes) to which will be added a action observation intervention (observing movements without actually doing them).

Sham action observation plus therapeutic exercise

Behavioral

Aerobic exercise (20 minutes) and strengthening exercise (15 minutes) to which will be added a sham action observation intervention (observing space planets).

Primary outcomes

  1. Pelvic Floor Muscle Strength

    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).

    maximum pelvic floor strength

  2. Pain Pressure Threshold

    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).

    Pain sensitivity

  3. Lumbopelvic Motor Control

    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).

    Sensorimotor control of lower limbs

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Valencia

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Registry information

Official study title

Mental Practice and Therapeutic Exercise in Young Nulliparous Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Oct 10, 2023
Registry last updated
May 18, 2026

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