Telehealth: Diaphragmatic vs. Pelvic Exercise in Postpartum Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Diaphragmatic breathing retraining, Pelvic stabilization exercise, pelvic anatomy education.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Postpartum, Pregnancy Related, Pelvic Girdle Pain. Basic parameters: 20 years — 65 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
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Official title
Comparison of Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercise and Pelvic Stabilization Exercise in Postpartum Women With Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain: A Real-time Telehealth-based Intervention
Overview
The goal of this interventional study is to compare investigate the short-term and long-term effects of 8-week real-time telehealth-based diaphragmatic breathing exercise and pelvic stabilization exercise on pain, disability, and quality of life in postpartum women with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.
Interventions
- Other Diaphragmatic breathing retraining
8 weeks diaphragmatic breathing training - Other Pelvic stabilization exercise
8 weeks pelvic stabilization exercise training - Other pelvic anatomy education
pelvic anatomy education
Primary outcome measures
- Muscle function measures of lumbopelvic muscles [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Diaphragm thickness [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Diaphragm mobility [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Diaphragm strength [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Mechanical Property of Thoracolumbar Fascia [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Functional performance of ASLR fatigue task [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Functional performance of timed up and go test [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Functional performance of 6m timed walk test [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- pain intensity measure of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Disability Level: measure of pelvic girdle questionnaire(PGQ) [Time frame: Change from baseline to 8 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age between 20-65 years
- Postpartum ≥ 3 months
- Pain located in sacroiliac joints (i.e., pain located between the posterior iliac crest and gluteal fold)
- Pregnancy-related cause of pelvic pain that pain occurs during pregnancy or after delivery (i.e., not traumatic or degenerative cause)
- At least 2 positive findings of 6 pain provocation tests for pelvic pain
- Score of Active Straight Leg Rise (ASLR) test > 0
Exclusion criteria
- being pregnant or actively trying to get pregnant
- having known causes of pelvic girdle pain, such as fractures and rheumatism
- having undergone lumbar, pelvic, gynecologic or obstetric surgery
- having current neurological symptoms and signs in lower extremities such as lumbar radiculopathy and myelopathy
- having cancer
- having cardiovascular disease
- being diagnosed as having a psychiatric disease
- active infection or infectious disease in the pelvis or abdomen
- having experience with structured and supervised core or trunk exercise training programs.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Taiwan · 1 center
- National Cheng Kung University — Tainan
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06284278 · NCKU_PPGP_diaphragm