The Effect of Physical Exercise in Reducing Pain in Women Undergoing Mammography

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Side Effects; Pain
• Interventions: Procedure: Physical exercise

• Registration Number: NCT02215668
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Brief Summary

Mammography is a systematic way in the main programs of screening for breast cancer in women over 40 or 50 years old, according to screening programs, but most research has shown a frequency of discomfort and pain during the examination mammography. This study is a randomized controlled trial, whose intervention will be a sequence of exercises body warming and muscle stretching, performed systematic manner and supervised by a physical educator. It is expected to find in this study a possible impact of physical exercise in reducing pain after mammography examination.

Detailed Description

This research aims to evaluate the relationship of pre-mammography guided physical activity and pain after the examination, evaluating the impact of the intervention in a group of patients undergoing upper limb exercise (SLE), compared to another group women not subject exposure (MNE), and another group with lower limb exercise (LLE). This study is a randomized controlled trial, whose intervention will be a sequence of exercises body warming and muscle stretching, performed systematic manner and supervised by a physical educator. It is expected to find in this study a possible impact of physical exercise in reducing pain after mammography examination. The results will be checked by study association between the level of physical activity, body mass index, breast density and reducing the pain effect between groups for comparison of means and variances of values of the visual analogue scale (VAS).

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2014-08
• Study Start: 2014-08
• Study First Submitted: 2014-08-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-08-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-08-11
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-13
• Last Update Posted: 2014-08-13
• Primary Completion: 2014-10
• Study Completion: 2014-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 198

Inclusion Criteria

• Women: 20 to 69 years old

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Exclusion Criteria

• Cardiovascular disease
• Mental diseases
• Pulmonary diseases
• Steroids use

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group 2	Physical exercise	Women are subjected to physical exercise in the lower limbs prior to mammography
Physical exercise (Upper limb)	Physical exercise	Women will be subjected to physical exercise on upper limb prior to mammography.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Decreased pain after mammography.	Decrease in pain after performing mammography, checked10 minutes after the procedure e, measured by visual analog scale.	Following the randomization, approximately 10 minutes after performing a physical exercise in the upper limbs (Group 1) and lower (Group 2), or not performing any physical exercise (Group 0), the woman will be submitted to bilateral mammogram. Ten minutes after the procedure, the assessment of pain during mammography will be measured by the visual analog scale. The mean difference between the measurements of visual analog scale (VAS) will be compared between groups.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital do Cancer de Barretos; 🇧🇷 Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil