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Effects of Kinesio-Taping and Muscle Energy Technique on Chronic Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Not Applicable
Conditions
Musculoskeletal Injury
Interventions
Other: Kinesiotaping
Other: Muscle Energy Technique
Other: conventional physiotherapy
Registration Number
NCT05442476
Lead Sponsor
Ziauddin University
Brief Summary

Pregnancy is the main occasion of every woman's life in which numerous episodes of physiological and anatomical adjustments takes place within woman's body to become a mother. Anatomical changes often leads to poor biomechanics and may cause mechanical dysfunction of spine especially lower back.. Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) goes through most of mobility during the period of pregnancy due to hormone release causes ligamentous laxity that can cause SIJD.

Detailed Description

Fifty two patients will be randomly divided into two groups i.e. Group-A (n=26) and B (n=26) respectively through simple random sampling, sealed envelope method. Informed consent will be taken from the participant prior to intervention. Baseline assessment will be carried out before the first session of all the recruited participants on four outcome measures using, Patrick's FABER test for provocation of pain, NPRS for intensity of pain, RMDQ for physical disability and PALM Pelvic Inclinometer for pelvic asymmetry respectively. Skin reaction test will be conducted before randomization after the baseline assessment for all participants. A small patch of kinesio tape will be applied to the hip region and the participants will be asked to keep it for 24 hours. If any of the participants will develop allergic reaction, it will be removed immediately and participants with positive results will be excluded from the study. After this test, the allergy-free patients will be randomized into 2 groups for treatment. Participants of Group-A will be applied KT with conventional physiotherapy while Group-B participants will perform MET with conventional physiotherapy. Whereas, both the groups will be given 12 sessions of their respective protocol, comprising 20 minutes, 3 times/week for the duration of 4 weeks. After the end of the intervention, subjects will be reassessed after the last session and data will be collected on the same outcome measures for further evaluation

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
52
Inclusion Criteria
  • Postpartum with diagnosed cases of SIJD dysfunction (after 3 months of delivery) with age range between 20 to 35 years
  • Postpartum with unilateral/bilateral both SIJD
  • Postpartum with anterior innominate

Exclusion criteria:

  • History of any fracture at lower limb in recent 6 months
  • Pregnant females
  • Spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis
  • Malignancy of spine or lower limb
  • Radiculopathy
  • Conditions like diastasis recti, prolapse pelvic organ
  • History of recent infection
Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
kinesiotapingKinesiotaping-
kinesiotapingconventional physiotherapy-
Muscle Energy Techniqueconventional physiotherapy-
Muscle Energy TechniqueMuscle Energy Technique-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
DisabilityAfter 4 weeks

It will be used for the participants to assess the disability with low back pain, comprised of 24 items regarding functional status that are likely to be affected by LBP. The scoring of RMQD will show '0' as no disability and '24' as maximum disability

Pelvic tiltingAfter 4 weeks

PALM device is portable, convenient to use that combines the features of a caliper and inclinometer. It is reliable tool used for measuring pelvic tilting angle/inclination by marking a point just inferior to ASIS; another mark inferior to PSIS. Keeping the calipers of the PALM on these two points to determine the distance in centimeter between two points

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ziauddin University

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Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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