Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation of Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

NCT ID: NCT06461234

Last Updated: 2025-08-01

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

1360 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-05-20

Study Completion Date

2026-11-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this observational study is to learn about the therapeutic effects of different pelvic floor rehabilitation treatments, including pelvic floor muscle training , pelvic floor biofeedback electrical stimulation, and magnetic stimulation, in a population of Chinese patients with female pelvic floor dysfunction disorders. The study aims to find out the individualised pelvic floor rehabilitation treatment plan suitable for the Chinese population. The main question it aims to answer is:

1. Do patients with reduced pelvic floor muscle strength after childbirth, or patients with mild to moderate pelvic organ prolapse and symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse benefit from pelvic floor rehabilitation?
2. Is the combination of biofeedback electrical stimulation plus pelvic floor magnetic stimulation superior to single electrical stimulation, magnetic stimulation or pelvic floor muscle training?
3. Which pelvic floor rehabilitation therapy is most suitable for Chinese patients with female pelvic floor dysfunction?
4. What factors are early predictors of developing female pelvic floor dysfunction? And what factors can predict the prognostic status of patients treated with pelvic floor rehabilitation? Participants in the multicenter will be treated with different rehabilitation therapies, during which the researchers will collect clinical symptoms using the PFDI20 questionnaire, and POP-Q scores, pelvic floor muscle strength, and electromyography results from participants before, at the end of, and 3 months and 1 year after the end of treatment.

Detailed Description

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This multicentre, prospective cohort study will be conducted at seven hospital-based pelvic floor health centres nationwide in China. Patients with pelvic floor dysfunctional disorders who are scheduled to undergo pelvic floor rehabilitation are included, including 1) postpartum pelvic floor muscle weakness, 2) mild-to-moderate pelvic organ prolapse (POP), and 3) POP in combination with dysfunction (bowel or bladder dysfunction) or POP in combination with lower urinary tract symptoms (overactive bladder syndrome, constipation, faecal incontinence).

Pelvic floor rehabilitation was performed in accordance with the clinical pathway based on patients' disease characteristics and individual conditions, during which baseline data were collected from patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, as well as follow-up surveys at the end of the treatment, 3 months after the end of the treatment, and 12 months after the end of the treatment. The clinical data collected were used to determine the effectiveness of treatment and to summarise the effects of different rehabilitation programmes on the prognosis of postpartum and middle-aged and elderly PFD patients. The data were matched and compared with the patients' clinical symptoms, signs and auxiliary examinations, so as to optimise and determine the individualised and precise pelvic floor rehabilitation treatment plan.

Conditions

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Pelvic Floor Disorders Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT)

Control group

Pelvic floor muscle training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A therapist will instruct the patient to contract the anus, perineum as well as the urethra, until the patient masters the correct method.

pelvic floor biofeedback electrical stimulation

Observation Group 1

Biofeedback electrical stimulation

Intervention Type OTHER

The therapist will place the electrodes of the instrument into the vagina, adjust the current value until the woman feels obvious contraction of the pelvic floor muscles but no pain, and instructs the patient to refer to the biofeedback mode for vaginal and anal contraction and relaxation.

pelvic floor magnetic stimulation

Observation Group 2

Magnetic Stimulation

Intervention Type OTHER

The therapist will use the magnetic stimulator to intermittently stimulate the and adjust the stimulation intensity at any time according to the patient\'s condition, adjusting it until there is a clear sense of contraction and feel comfortable.

Magnetic stimulation combined with biofeedback electrical stimulation

Observation Group 3

Magnetic stimulation combined with biofeedback electrical stimulation

Intervention Type OTHER

Pelvic floor magnetic stimulation for 30 minutes followed by biofeedback electrical stimulation.

Interventions

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Pelvic floor muscle training

A therapist will instruct the patient to contract the anus, perineum as well as the urethra, until the patient masters the correct method.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Biofeedback electrical stimulation

The therapist will place the electrodes of the instrument into the vagina, adjust the current value until the woman feels obvious contraction of the pelvic floor muscles but no pain, and instructs the patient to refer to the biofeedback mode for vaginal and anal contraction and relaxation.

Intervention Type OTHER

Magnetic Stimulation

The therapist will use the magnetic stimulator to intermittently stimulate the and adjust the stimulation intensity at any time according to the patient\'s condition, adjusting it until there is a clear sense of contraction and feel comfortable.

Intervention Type OTHER

Magnetic stimulation combined with biofeedback electrical stimulation

Pelvic floor magnetic stimulation for 30 minutes followed by biofeedback electrical stimulation.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. knowledge of the study, voluntary enrolment in the study, and signing of informed consent;
2. postpartum pelvic floor weakness (pelvic floor muscle strength less than grade 3), or mild to moderate pelvic organ prolapse (POP-Q staging less than stage III), or pelvic organ prolapse combined with dysfunction (bowel or bladder dysfunction).

Exclusion Criteria

1. history of comorbid serious medical or surgical illness;
2. comorbid psychiatric disorders;
3. contraindications to electrical and magnetic stimulation such as implanted pacemakers;
4. pelvic malignancy, acute genitourinary infection or vaginal bleeding, and genital tract malformation.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Peking Union Medical College Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Peking University Third Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Second Hospital of Shandong University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Changsha Hospital for Maternal and Child Health Care

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Southwest Hospital, China

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hangzhou Women's Hospital

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Mingfu Wu

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mingfu Wu

Professor

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Tongji hospital

Wuhan, Hubei, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Mingfu Wu, professor

Role: CONTACT

86 + 13720172196

Facility Contacts

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Mingfu Wu, professor

Role: primary

13720172196

References

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Wang AC, Wang YY, Chen MC. Single-blind, randomized trial of pelvic floor muscle training, biofeedback-assisted pelvic floor muscle training, and electrical stimulation in the management of overactive bladder. Urology. 2004 Jan;63(1):61-6. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2003.08.047.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Terlikowski R, Dobrzycka B, Kinalski M, Kuryliszyn-Moskal A, Terlikowski SJ. Transvaginal electrical stimulation with surface-EMG biofeedback in managing stress urinary incontinence in women of premenopausal age: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial. Int Urogynecol J. 2013 Oct;24(10):1631-8. doi: 10.1007/s00192-013-2071-5. Epub 2013 Feb 27.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Feng F, Ashton-Miller JA, DeLancey JOL, Luo J. Feasibility of a deep learning-based method for automated localization of pelvic floor landmarks using stress MR images. Int Urogynecol J. 2021 Nov;32(11):3069-3075. doi: 10.1007/s00192-020-04626-5. Epub 2021 Jan 21.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Zhang L, Wang F. Evaluation of Nursing Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Rehabilitation Exercise on Gastrointestinal Tract Rectal Cancer Patients Receiving Anus-preserving Operation by Intelligent Algorithm-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Contrast Media Mol Imaging. 2022 May 19;2022:1613632. doi: 10.1155/2022/1613632. eCollection 2022.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 35655733 (View on PubMed)

Wang X, He D, Feng F, Ashton-Miller JA, DeLancey JOL, Luo J. Multi-label classification of pelvic organ prolapse using stress magnetic resonance imaging with deep learning. Int Urogynecol J. 2022 Oct;33(10):2869-2877. doi: 10.1007/s00192-021-05064-7. Epub 2022 Jan 27.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 35083500 (View on PubMed)

Nygaard I, Barber MD, Burgio KL, Kenton K, Meikle S, Schaffer J, Spino C, Whitehead WE, Wu J, Brody DJ; Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. Prevalence of symptomatic pelvic floor disorders in US women. JAMA. 2008 Sep 17;300(11):1311-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.11.1311.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18799443 (View on PubMed)

Erekson EA, Fried TR, Martin DK, Rutherford TJ, Strohbehn K, Bynum JP. Frailty, cognitive impairment, and functional disability in older women with female pelvic floor dysfunction. Int Urogynecol J. 2015 Jun;26(6):823-30. doi: 10.1007/s00192-014-2596-2. Epub 2014 Dec 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25516232 (View on PubMed)

Hong MK, Ding DC. Current Treatments for Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunctions. Gynecol Minim Invasive Ther. 2019 Oct 24;8(4):143-148. doi: 10.4103/GMIT.GMIT_7_19. eCollection 2019 Oct-Dec.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31741838 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2024-S097

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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