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NCT Number: NCT06323941

Motor Imagery and Isometric Exercises on Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Isometric Exercise Motor Imagery Women's Health

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

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

Therapeutic Exercises

Behavioral

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

Primary outcomes

  1. Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity)

    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)

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

Secondary outcomes

  1. Algometry for assessing pressure pain thresholds (Pain sensitivity)

    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)

    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

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

    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)

    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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Valencia

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Effects of Motor Imagery on Skin Conductance and Pelvic Floor Sensorimotor Condition in Healthy Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Mar 21, 2024
Registry last updated
Mar 22, 2024

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