Effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation Program for Improving Sexual Function and Reducing Pain in Menopausal Women
Effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation Program for Improving Sexual Function and Reducing Pain in Menopausal Women With Dyspareunia: Protocol of a Randomized Clinical Trial.
Instituto Médico Tecnológico SL
90 participants
May 5, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a telerehabilitation program with respect to a face-to-face physiotherapy protocol in relation to the improvement of sexual function, the reduction of pain and the improvement of the quality of life, in the treatment of menopausal women with dyspareunia.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Female
- Age from 45 to 65 years.
- Menopausal
- Suffer dyspareunia for 3 months of evolution.
- Willing to complete study questionnaires and informed consent study.
Exclusion Criteria17
- Pacemaker or other types of electronic implant.
- Thrombophlebitis.
- Skin hypersensitivity or rejection of manual contact.
- Active or previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the pelvic area.
- Wounds or burns in the pelvic area.
- Allergy to nickel and chromium.
- Other pelvic floor physiotherapy treatments during the study intervention.
- Other medical and surgical treatments in the pelvic region, such as muscle infiltrations or nerve blocks during the study intervention.
- Surgical intervention in the pelvic area in the last 3 months.
- Fibromyalgia.
- Oncological processes that affect the sacrum.
- Systemic diseases (infectious, vascular, endocrine, metabolic or neoplastic conditions).
- Neuromuscular diseases (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis or spinal muscular atrophy).
- Myelopathy and Osteomyelitis.
- Diseases that cause alterations of the central nervous system (traumatic or vascular spinal cord injury).
- Neurological or metabolic conditions that affect the ability to respond (Diabetes, Parkinson's disease, senile dementia, etc).
- Serious mental disorder.
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Interventions
Topics addressed in the Asynchronous Online Telerehabilitation Program would be: 1. What it is and why it hurts during sex. What is dyspareunia? 2. How to recover vaginal elasticity. 3. Massage 4. Self-palpation. 5. Stretching of the pelvic floor muscles. 6. Use of vaginal dilators. 7. Moisturizers and lubricants. 8. Sexual pleasure. 9. Communication with the partner.
Physical Therapy Protocol will be based on: 1. Health education: 2. CMRF: INDIBA® ACTIV CT8 will be used to apply the radiofrequency 3. Manual therapy: it will be based on performing the Thiele's massage. 4. Vaginal dilators: FEMINAFORM® vaginal dilators will be used.
Both, the face to face protocol and the Asynchronous Telerehabilitation Program will be carried on on this group.
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NCT06710002