Craniosacral therapy as a complement to standard treatment for the treatment of well-defined pelvic girdle pain in pregnant wome

Completed

• Conditions: Pain; Pelvic girdle pain; Signs and Symptoms

• Registration Number: ISRCTN30566933
• Lead Sponsor: The Health and Medical Care Committee of the Region of Västra Götaland (Sweden)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-09-03
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

1. Healthy women with singleton fetuses who have completed between 12 - 28 weeks of the gestational period
2. Patients must be cranio-sacral therapy naive
2. Patients must be well integrated in the Swedish language
3. Patients should have well defined pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain according to the European Guidelines of diagnosis and treatment of Pelvic Girdle Pain
4. They have to have experienced an evening pain (according to the patient-kept diary) of more than 40 mm (visual analogue scale [VAS]) during the baseline week to be eligible

Exclusion Criteria

1. Cranio-sacral therapy experience
2. Other pain conditions
3. Systemic disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient scores the intensity of their present pelvic pain in relation to motion on a 100-point visual analogue scale (VAS) every morning and every evening in the diaries.