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Mobile app: Development of a mobile application synthesizing educational and exercise aspects of the GROUP project

The aim of this study is to develop a mobile application, which would increase the accessibility of the GROUP pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation exercise program for older women with urinary incontinence.

Vaginoplasty: The impact of a post-operative care protocol including pelvic floor physiotherapy after gender-affirming vaginoplasty: a pre-post study

This research aims to study the clinical impact of a post-op care protocol, including pelvic floor physiotherapy, on pain experience among patients that underwent gender-affirming vaginoplasty surgery in Montreal, as well as effects on their pelvic floor function and long-term sexual function.

Implementation: The GROUP program: A multi-center mixed-method implantation study

This study will evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a group perineal rehabilitation program (GROUP program) within Quebec’s health care system.

VITAAL: Individualized virtual training game for older adults with one or more of the following conditions: mobility impairment, cognitive impairment and/or urinary incontinence

Assessment of a new virtual training game targeting older adults and aiming to improve balance, cognitive function and leg and pelvic floor muscle strength.

Femfit: Understanding deep intra-abdominal pressure and its relationship to PFM pressure in UI-afflicted women

The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of a new device, the Femfit, which measures intra-vaginal pressure profiles.

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Predictors: Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule to guide and improve the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence

This study aims to better identify women who are most likely to benefit from physiotherapy to treat urinary incontinence.

8-year follow-up: 8-year follow-up of the GROUP randomized clinical trial on pelvic floor physiotherapy for urinary incontinence in women aged 60 and over

The objective of the study is to assess if the reduction in urinary leakage episodes is maintained eight years after pelvic floor muscle training.

Tele-Group: Online group-based pelvic floor muscle training program to treat urinary incontinence in older women: a mixed method pilot study

The purpose of this study is to study the feasibility, acceptability and effects of a tele-rehabilitation pelvic floor muscle training group program for urinary incontinence in older women.

Book on pelvic-perineological rehabilitation in collaboration with Elsevier-France

Summary: This book is intended to provide the knowledge and clinical reasoning needed for the management of patients with pelvic-perineological pathologies.

Coordinators: Chantale Dumoulin, Els Bakker, Montserrat Rejano Campo and Tara Reman