Effects of Breathing Exercises With and Without Core Stability Exercises on Pain Pressure Threshold and Disability in Postpartum Females With Lumbopelvic Pain
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 44
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Oswestry disability index
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 25 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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
Arms & Interventions
Traditional physical therapy
breathing exercises
Intervention: traditional physical therapy (Other)
Core stability exercise
core stability exercise along with breathing exercises and pain pressure algometer is used
Intervention: core stability exercises (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Oswestry disability index
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- ROM Back region (extension)(6th week)
- ROM Back region (flexion)(6th week)
- Pain Pressure Algometer(6th week)