Isometric Exercise, Motor Imagery, Women's Health
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMotor Imagery plus therapeutic exercise
Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a motor imagery intervention (imagining movements without actually doing them).
BEHAVIORALTherapeutic exercises
Isometric exercises (20 minutes) to which will be added a placebo motor imagery intervention (imagining a blue sky).
Sponsors
University of Valencia
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 30 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Skin conductance (for asessing electrodermal activity) | 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
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Algometry for assessing pressure pain thresholds (Pain sensitivity) | 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 |
| maximal pelvic floor muscle strength (measured in grams and with the phenix device) | 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. |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed