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

Completed

Conditions: Well-defined pelvic girdle pain
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Pelvic girdle pain

Registration Number: ISRCTN11374571

Lead Sponsor: niversity of Gothenburg (Sweden)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Female

Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

1. Healthy women who have completed between 12 - 29 weeks of the gestational period
2. Patients must be well integrated in the Swedish language with singleton fetuses
3. Patients should have well defined pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
4. Patients must be acupuncture naive
5. They have to have experienced an evening pain (according to the patient-kept diary) of more than 50 mm (visual analogue scale [VAS]) during the baseline week to be eligible

Exclusion Criteria

1. Acupuncture experience
2. Other pain conditions
3. Systemic disorders
4. Contraindications to treatment

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

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Function (Oswestery and Disability Rating Index [DRI])<br>2. Health functioning (EuroQoL questionnaire)<br>3. Recovery from symptoms as assessed by an independent examiner<br>4. Every week during the study, the patient is asked if she has been sicklisted during the past week (yes or no). If the answer is yes, a note is then taken on the percentage of times the patient has been sicklisted, either 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%