Shocking the pelvic floor back to strength: new combo therapy tested
NCT ID NCT06419517
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether adding a special type of electrical stimulation to standard pelvic floor exercises can help women with very weak pelvic floor muscles and stress urinary incontinence. Fifty women who had given birth 6-18 months earlier and had very weak muscles participated. The goal was to see if the combination therapy could improve muscle strength and reduce urine leakage.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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50 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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May 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 to 50 years
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * • Adult women (18 years old - 50 years old), with a Modified Oxford Score, determined by digital palpation, of 0 - 1, complaining leakage episode occurring more than once a week. * Between six and eighteen months after childbirth * Willing and able to be compliant with pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention (standard of care) for 12 weeks and to log compliance * Willing and able to undergo an extensive physical function evaluation Exclusion Criteria: * • pregnancy * severe neurological disease (Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, major stroke or neuromuscular junction diseases) * previous operation for cancer or radiotherapy in the lower abdomen * Prior surgical intervention for urinary incontinence within the past 12 months * Hysterectomy within 12 months * voiding dysfunction * pelvic pain * severe prolapse (≥ grade 3) * recurrent urinary tract infection * pelvic or disseminated malignancies * women who were virgo intacta * women who declined vaginal examinations for any reasons * before four months of pregnancy * Having significant cognitive impairment or dementia * Unsafe to exercise (severe cardiopulmonary disease) * Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent * Patient has on physical examination, neurological and/or vaginal examination results which, in the opinion of the investigator, should exclude the subject.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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OSPEDALE FIORENZUOLA d'ARDA
Fiorenzuola d'Arda, PC, 29017, Italy
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