The purpose of this research is to assess the impact of an eight-week home cadence training program on stress urinary incontinence symptoms in parous women.
Healthy
Nonpregnant
Female volunteers
Self-reported urinary incontinence during running with history of at least one prior delivery after 32 weeks gestation and who run 6 miles/week with a preferred cadence of less than or equal to 170 steps per minute determined via personal report from current Garmin watch data.
Unwillingness to complete all components of the study
Urge only urinary incontinence
<3 months postpartum or current pregnancy
History of prolapse repair or incontinence surgery
Parallel
Cadence Increase
Other interventionUtilizing cadence alarm on a garmin device, the intervention group will attempt to increase their running cadence by 10%.
Cadence Maintenance
Other interventionParticipants will use cadence alarms to maintain preferred running cadence.
Preferred Cadence
Participants will self-assess preferred running cadence using a garmin device during a 15 minute self-paced run.
The Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory-20 (PFDI-20)
questionnaire that assesses bowel, bladder, and pelvic symptoms and their impact on quality of life. Scores range from 0 to 300 with higher scores indicating greater pelvic floor distress and impact on quality of life.
Questionnaire for Female Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis (QUID)
6 item urinary incontinence questionnaire. A higher SUI score (range 0-15) suggests stress urinary incontinence is more likely. A higher UUI score (range 0-15) suggests urge urinary incontinence is more likely. The questionnaire is designed to help distinguish between these two main types of urinary incontinence in women.
International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Urinary Incontinence (ICIQ-UI)
The ICIQ-UI Short Form (ICIQ-UI SF) produces a single score from 0 to 21 by summing three scored items: leakage frequency, leakage amount, and impact on daily life. A higher score indicates increased severity of urinary incontinence symptoms.
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