Accelerometer Measured Early Recovery After Prolapse Surgery
NICHD Pelvic Floor Disorders Network
Summary
The AccelERate study will evaluate the physical recovery of patients who have undergone Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) surgery. This will be evaluated via a self-reported recovery questionnaire completed daily. Participants will wear an accelerometer device on their non-dominant wrist and be given either routine or exercise-focused postoperative instructions. The primary outcome will be a comparison of the number of days needed to reach self-reported "mostly recovered" status between randomly assigned instruction groups.
Description
The AccelERate Trial is a single-masked RCT to determine if a prescribed early exercise regimen during the postoperative period in women undergoing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for POP is associated with quicker recovery compared to standard recommendations for postoperative activities. AccelERate will go beyond existing research and be the first to implement and quantitatively evaluate with accelerometer data a postoperative exercise regimen and its effects on recovery and pelvic floor symptoms. We will quantify postoperative activity as well as recovery using self-report, performance-bas…