Breathing and Core Stability Exercise Effects on Lumbopelvic Pain

Sponsor

Riphah International University (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT05405127

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Location

Arms

6.1

Anticipated Duration (Months)

7.2

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Lumbopelvic pain refers to self-reported pain in areas of lower region, anterior and posterior pelvic tilt or combination of these. Physical therapy interventions used are breathing exercises with and without core stability exercises. Tool used were Pain Pressure Algometer and Oswestry Disability Index.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Breathing Sound Low Back Pain Post-operative Pain Pelvic Pain	Other: traditional physical therapy Other: core stability exercises	N/A

Detailed Description

Lumbopelvic pain is self-reported pain. It is common complaint for women after labour, and it is found that 25% of newly delivered women experienced low back and pelvic pain. Different interventions have been used to reduce the lumbopelvic pain in general including exercises, drugs, therapies and massage. An increasingly common approach used within physical therapy management are breathing exercises and core stabilization exercises. This study will used to compare the effects of breathing exercises with and without core stability exercise. Pre-assessment will be done using oswestry disability index as subjective measurement and pain pressure algometer as objective measure.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

44 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

Double (Participant, Investigator)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

Effects of Breathing Exercises With and Without Core Stability Exercises on Pain Pressure Threshold and Disability in Postpartum Females With Lumbopelvic Pain

Actual Study Start Date :

May 30, 2022

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Traditional physical therapy breathing exercises	Other: traditional physical therapy breathing exercises 10 repetitions, 1set, 3 days/week and targeted abdominal muscles. Total 6 sessions were given each consisting of 30 minutes.
Experimental: Core stability exercise core stability exercise along with breathing exercises and pain pressure algometer is used	Other: core stability exercises core stability along with breathing exercise 10 repetitions, 1set, 3 days/week and targeted core muscles. Total 6 sessions were given consisting of 30 minutes.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Active Comparator: Traditional physical therapy

breathing exercises

Other: traditional physical therapy

breathing exercises 10 repetitions, 1set, 3 days/week and targeted abdominal muscles. Total 6 sessions were given each consisting of 30 minutes.

Experimental: Core stability exercise

core stability exercise along with breathing exercises and pain pressure algometer is used

Other: core stability exercises

core stability along with breathing exercise 10 repetitions, 1set, 3 days/week and targeted core muscles. Total 6 sessions were given consisting of 30 minutes.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Oswestry disability index [6th week]
Changes from base line Oswestry disability index was developed first by Fairbank et al. It was designed to measure the back pain and disability over time. It consists of 10, five parts sections. At the end, score is calculated by dividing the obtained score by total (50) multiplied by 100. As the driving section in all the female patients, total score was considered as 45 instead of 50.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Pain Pressure Algometer [6th week]
Changes from base line Pain Pressure Algometer was developed first by Baba et al. The pressure algometer has linear response to force application between 0 and 1,300 kilopascal.
ROM Back region (flexion) [6th week]
Changes from the Baseline ROM range of motion of back region flexion was taken.
ROM Back region (extension) [6th week]
Changes from the baseline ROM range of motion of back region extension was taken.