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Trial reportInternational urogynecology journal2020

The Effects of home-based stabilization exercises focusing on the pelvic floor on postnatal stress urinary incontinence and low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

Fahime Khorasani, Fariba Ghaderi, Parvin Bastani, Parvin Sarbakhsh, Bary Berghmans

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In one paragraph

Trial report in International urogynecology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05707143 (Comparative Effects of Home Based Stabilization and Kegel Exercises on Low Back Pain, Disability and Quality of Life in Postnatal Females), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05707143 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Comparative Effects of Home Based Stabilization and Kegel Exercises on Low Back Pain, Disability and Quality of Life in Postnatal Females

TypeinterventionalSponsorRiphah International UniversityRan2022 to 2023Enrolled22ConditionsLow Back PainArmshome based stabilization exercises, kegel exercises
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effects of Training Interventions to Treat Postpartum Urinary Incontinence: A Meta-Analysis.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026
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  5. The effect of pelvic floor muscle-strengthening exercises on low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis on randomized clinical trials.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fahime KhorasaniDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah Ave., Tabriz, Iran.
Fariba GhaderiDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah Ave., Tabriz, Iran. ghaderimailbox@gmail.com.
Parvin BastaniDepartment of Gynaecology, Woman's Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Parvin SarbakhshRoad Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Bary BerghmansPelvic care Centre Maastricht, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRMaastricht University Medical Centre · NL

Funding

Tabriz University of Medical Sciences TBZMED1396.65
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introduction and hypothesisStress urinary incontinence (SUI) and low back pain (LBP) are common postnatal problems. We aimed to compare the effects of stabilization exercises focusing on the pelvic floor on postnatal SUI and LBP.

methodsThis two-arm, single-blind, parallel, randomized controlled trial was done on 80 women (mean age: 30.5, range: 20-45 years), with postnatal SUI and LBP. They were randomized into two equal control and intervention groups. The control group received no treatment while the intervention group received home-based stabilization exercises focusing on pelvic floor muscles (PFM) 3 days a week for 12 weeks, three sets a day; each set included three different types of exercise each week. Outcome measures were UI severity, assessed by ICIQ-UI-SF, low back pain functional disability, assessed by the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), LBP severity, assessed by visual analog scale (VAS), and PFM strength and endurance, assessed by vaginal examination. Transverse abdominis (TrA) muscle strength was assessed by manometric biofeedback. All outcomes were measured directly before and after treatment.

resultsIn the intervention group, PFM strength, TrA muscle strength, functional disability and pain severity were significantly improved (P < 0.05). Within-group results showed that all outcomes except pain severity (P = 0.06) had directly improved in the intervention group after treatment (P < 0.05), while in the control group only PFM strength and endurance and UI severity had improved (P < 0.05).

conclusionsHome-based stabilization exercises focusing on the pelvic floor muscles could be effective for postnatal LBP and SUI.

trial registrationIranian Registry of Clinical Trials (Code: IRCT2017050618760N4).

Indexed as

Low Back PainUrinary Incontinence, StressAdultExercise TherapyFemaleHumansIranPelvic FloorSingle-Blind MethodTreatment OutcomeDisabilityExerciseLow back painPelvic floor musclesPelvic painPostnatalStress urinary incontinenceUrinary incontinence

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PMID32274521
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