ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2020
A feasibility study of the physiotherapy management of urinary incontinence in athletic women: trial protocol for the POsITIve study.
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Physiotherapy Management of Urinary Incontinence in Athletic Women- A Feasibility Study
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Athletes' Knowledge of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Their Knowledge of and Engagement with Pelvic Floor Muscle Training: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Digital Technologies for Women's Pelvic Floor Muscle Training to Manage Urinary Incontinence Across Their Life Course: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Article
- What is known from the existing literature about the available interventions for pelvic floor dysfunction among female athletes? A scoping review.Neurourology and urodynamics · 2022Article
- Benefits of Physiotherapy on Urinary Incontinence in High-Performance Female Athletes. Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundUrinary incontinence (UI) affects up to 40% of adult women within the UK, and pelvic floor muscle training can be effective as a treatment. The prevalence of UI is higher in athletic women than in their sedentary counterparts, but there is little research into reasons for this or into treatment within this population.The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of conducting a future randomised controlled trial of physiotherapeutic management of UI in athletic women.
methodsThis is a mixed methods study with three distinct but related phases.Phase 1: Semi-structured interviews with health care professionals in the community will explore current management practices of UI in women and particularly in female athletes in order to inform the control arm of a future study. It will also establish community health care professionals' understanding of pelvic health physiotherapy.Phase 2: Athletic and regularly exercising women recruited directly from gyms and sports clubs will undergo a course of physiotherapy to manage UI. This will establish study recruitment, eligibility, consent, attendance, attrition, and data completion rates. It will provide information regarding appropriate clinical venues and outcome measures to use for this patient group.Phase 3: Semi-structured interviews with purposefully selected participants from phase 2 will investigate participant satisfaction with recruitment procedures, the intervention, outcome measures and the venues. Further, we will collect data regarding the use of a smartphone 'app' for adherence and monitoring of home exercises and participants' beliefs around randomisation in a future study. We will explore the impact of UI on life and sport in more detail. DISCUSSION: This study will establish the ease and acceptability of recruiting athletic women directly from gyms and sports clubs and identify attrition rates. It will also explore the acceptability of the intervention, clinical venues and outcome measures. Data collected will be used to inform a future randomised controlled trial.
trial registrationNCT03986411 (clinicaltrials.gov). Registered on 14 June 2019.
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