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Effect of Laser Acupuncture on Neck and Shoulder Pain in Lactating Women

No phase Interventional Neck Pain

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Postural correction exercise, Laser acupuncture.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Neck Pain. Basic parameters: 20 years — 40 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
Egypt
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Overview

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of laser acupuncture on neck and shoulder pain in lactating women.

Detailed description

Breastfeeding was the most common daily living activity that caused neck and shoulder pain to become worse in lactating women, the mother's position is a head-down position to maintain eye contact with the infant, so there are possibilities of breastfeeding-related neck pain .

It was revealed that neck and shoulder pain greatly influenced the health of postpartum women; it led to a reduction in the level of quality of life of postpartum women.

Acupuncture is a choice for therapeutic intervention of patients with neck and shoulder pain and can be incorporated into rehabilitation.

laser acupuncture (LA) uses a low-intensity, non-thermal laser irradiation to stimulate the acupoints. LA may improve pain, disability, and functional levels in musculoskeletal disorders like shoulder and neck pain

Interventions

  • Other Postural correction exercise
    Each participant will be given cervical thoracic spine correction exercises in the form of thoracic Roll Stretching Exercises, shoulder Bracing (Shoulder Retraction), superman Pose, chin Tuck (Cervical Retraction), five days a week for 4 weeks
  • Device Laser acupuncture
    A dermatograph pencil (COLOURED®) will be used to draw circles with diameters of 2 cm around the application points. Each point will be stimulated for 30 seconds. The laser will be placed at the specific acupuncture points in shoulder and cervical regions. Each woman in the study group will be treated by laser acupuncture for 7 minutes twice a week for 4 weeks. Acupuncture points of the neck: B10 (Tianzhu), GB 20 (Fengchi), GB 21 (jianjing), and EX-HN15 (jianzhongsgu). Acupuncture points of

Primary outcome measures

  • Pain intensity [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Pressure pain threshold [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • cervical flexion range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • cervical extension range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • cervical side bending [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • cervical rotation [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Shoulder flexion range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Shoulder extension range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Shoulder abduction range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Shoulder internal rotation range of motion [Time frame: 4 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
  • Functional disability [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Shoulder and pain disability index (SAPDI) [Time frame: 4 weeks]
  • Breastfeeding Self Efficacy assessment [Time frame: 4 weeks]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Lactating women Suffering from cervical and shoulder pain.
  • Their body mass index will be less than 30 kg/m².
  • Primipara and multipara "2:3 times" women.
  • six weeks to one year after childbirth.

Exclusion criteria

  • Neurological disorders.
  • Musculoskeletal disorders as cervical discopathy or shoulder impingement syndrome.
  • History of cervical or shoulder surgery.
  • Infection or malignancy.
  • Take any medical treatment or physiotherapy interventions in the past one month.
  • Fibromyalgia or myopathy

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

Egypt · 1 center
  • Yara Mokhtar Abd El-Latif — Cairo

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07084415 · P.T.REC/012/005732

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗