Recruiting

Cadence Training

Sponsor:

Mayo Clinic

Code:

NCT07829692

Conditions

Stress Urinary Incontinence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Cadence Increase

Cadence Maintenance

Study Details

Brief summary:

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.

Conditions

Stress Urinary Incontinence

Study ID

NCT07829692

Start date

Aug 5, 2026

Status verified date

Sep, 2026

Completion date

Aug 5, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 5, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Female

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 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.
  • Participants must own their own or have access to a Garmin watch.
  • Participants must read, speak, and understand English sufficiently to provide informed consent and complete study procedures and questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • 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
  • Participants will also be excluded if they do not own or utilize a Garmin watch that provides cadence assessment and alarm.

Study Design

Enrollment

66 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Cadence increase group

Participants will log running data and set cadence alarms to increase running cadence by 10%

placebo comparator: Cadence Maintenance Arm

Participants will log their running data and set cadence alarm to maintain cadence.

Interventions

Cadence Increase

Utilizing cadence alarm on a garmin device, the intervention group will attempt to increase their running cadence by 10%.

Cadence Maintenance

Participants will use cadence alarms to maintain preferred running cadence.

Primary outcome measure

  • Preferred Cadence [ Time Frame: Baseline and 8 weeks ]
  • The Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory-20 (PFDI-20) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8 weeks, and 6 month ]
  • Questionnaire for Female Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis (QUID) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8 weeks, and 6 months ]
  • International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Urinary Incontinence (ICIQ-UI) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8 weeks, and 6 months ]
  • Global Rating of Change (GROC) [ Time Frame: 8 weeks and 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sally Olmstead

316-641-6192olmstead.sally@mayo.edu

Locations

Mayo Clinic

Recruiting

Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905

Contacts

Sally Olmstead

316-641-6192olmstead.sally@mayo.edu

Nicole Ron

505-480-4548nicolejron@gmail.com

More Information

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Last update posted

Sep 23, 2026

Last verified

Sep, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-24. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Mayo Clinic on 2026-09-23. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.