Mechanisms of Improving Fecal Continence Muscles Motor Function
ConditionFecal Incontinence
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorMedical College of Wisconsin
About this trial
The investigators hypothesize that different continence muscles have different fatigue characteristics and fatigue induced by resisted contractions will result in significant increase in contractility of the continence muscles and improvement of fecal incontinence severity.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Healthy volunteers without past or present history of fecal incontinence
Patients age 18 years and older with reduced anal resting and or squeeze pressure, reflecting weakness of the anal sphincters who can perform the study
Disqualifiers
Any one less than 18 years old
Neurological disorders like dementia, cerebrovascular diseases
Muscle diseases like muscular dystrophy, myopathies
Inflammatory bowel disease or celiac disease
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- continence muscles resistance device
Treatment groups
340 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov