Effect of pelvic floor exercise on female with low back pai
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 76
ranging in age from 26 to 45 years, with chronic, non-specific low back pain for 3 months or more, their functional disability score assessed by Oswestry disability questionnaire, it must be equal or less than 40%, indicating a mild and moderate degrees of disability
1) continuous pain >8 on a visual analogue scale (VAS), 2) having nerve root symptoms, 3) having systemic disease and specific conditions such as neoplasm, fractures, spondylolysthesis, spondylolysis, spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, previous low back surgery, 4) previous attendance at any structured pelvic floor muscle training program, 5) previous spinal or pelvic surgery, 6) pregnancy or unwillingness to do exercise and 7) taking medication for specific psychological problems.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method static muscle endurance has been assessed by length of time the patient was able to maintain an unsupported upper body in the prone [extension] and supine positions (flexion);Dynamic muscle endurance has been assessed by the number of sit-ups (flexions) and prone trunk extensions performed in 1 min
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method pain intensity ;Spinal disability