Pelvic Floor Exercises with Trunk Stabilization Versus Pelvic Floor Exercises with Interferential Therapy in Rehabilitation of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Recreational Female Athletes - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Question: Which treatment is the best for stress urinary incontinence among conventional physiotherapy, pelvic floor exercise with trunk stabilization or pelvic floor exercise with Interferential therapy in recreational female athletes? Design: A randomized controlled trial with concealed allocation Participants: 75 recreational female athletes in the age group of 18-30 years were included and divided into three groups in which two experimental and one conventional group with 25 participants in each group. Intervention: Group A received Conventional exercises, Group B received Pelvic floor exercises with Trunk stabilization and Group C received Pelvic floor exercises with interferential therapy. All the groups received total training for 6 weeks, thrice a week. Outcome measures: Urine loss was measured by the Pad Test and Quality of life was measured by the Urogenital Distress Inventory-6. Results: Intergroup baseline was done by parametric one-way ANOVA intergroup comparison of pre and post intervention score of variables was done using parametric paired t-test. Intergroup comparison of post-intervention score of variables was done by one way ANOVA. All the three groups improved statistically significant at the end of 6th weeks of intervention. Conclusion: All the three interventions improved the pelvic floor muscles strength and quality of life, but pelvic floor exercise with trunk stabilization is more effective to improve pelvic floor muscles strength and quality of life of recreational female athletes. Clinical Trial Registration of India Number: CTRI/2021/03/031672 Key words: Pelvic floor exercises, Trunk Stabilization, Interferential Therapy, Urogenital Distress Inventory, Pad Test