Breathing and Core Stability Exercise Effects on Lumbopelvic Pain

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Pelvic Pain; Breathing Sound; Low Back Pain; Post-operative Pain
• Interventions: Other: core stability exercises; Other: traditional physical therapy

• Registration Number: NCT05405127
• Lead Sponsor: Riphah International University

Brief Summary

Lumbopelvic pain refers to self-reported pain in areas of lower region, anterior and posterior pelvic tilt or combination of these. Physical therapy interventions used are breathing exercises with and without core stability exercises. Tool used were Pain Pressure Algometer and Oswestry Disability Index.

Detailed Description

Lumbopelvic pain is self-reported pain. It is common complaint for women after labour, and it is found that 25% of newly delivered women experienced low back and pelvic pain. Different interventions have been used to reduce the lumbopelvic pain in general including exercises, drugs, therapies and massage. An increasingly common approach used within physical therapy management are breathing exercises and core stabilization exercises. This study will used to compare the effects of breathing exercises with and without core stability exercise. Pre-assessment will be done using oswestry disability index as subjective measurement and pain pressure algometer as objective measure.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study Start: 2022-05-30
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-31
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-06
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-06
• Primary Completion: 2022-12
• Study Completion: 2022-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 44

Inclusion Criteria

• Women had parity (2-4) times
• Body mass index that did not exceed 30 Kg/m
• Lumbopelvic pain at least three months until one year postpartum

Exclusion Criteria

• They were pregnant
• Had systemic inflammatory diseases
• Prolapsed disc
• Neuromuscular disorder

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Core stability exercise	core stability exercises	core stability exercise along with breathing exercises and pain pressure algometer is used
Traditional physical therapy	traditional physical therapy	breathing exercises

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Oswestry disability index	6th week	Changes from base line Oswestry disability index was developed first by Fairbank et al. It was designed to measure the back pain and disability over time. It consists of 10, five parts sections. At the end, score is calculated by dividing the obtained score by total (50) multiplied by 100. As the driving section in all the female patients, total score was considered as 45 instead of 50.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ROM Back region (extension)	6th week	Changes from the baseline ROM range of motion of back region extension was taken.
ROM Back region (flexion)	6th week	Changes from the Baseline ROM range of motion of back region flexion was taken.
Pain Pressure Algometer	6th week	Changes from base line Pain Pressure Algometer was developed first by Baba et al. The pressure algometer has linear response to force application between 0 and 1,300 kilopascal.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Services Hospital; 🇵🇰 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan