Clinical trial NCT06817135: Effect of Scapular Stabilization Exercise on Breastfeeding Women with Non-specific Neck Pain
Official title: Effect of Scapular Stabilization Exercise on Breastfeeding Women with Non-specific Neck Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Neck Pain
Keywords: scapular stabilization exercise
Breast feeding women
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-02-10
Enrollment: 30
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The control group got the standard physical therapy program, muscle energy technique for the sternocleidomastoid, elevator scapulae, upper trapezius, and pectoralis major, and advice, while the experimental group got the same conventional physical therapy program in addition to scapular stabilization exercises.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether scapular stabilization exercises can help breastfeeding women with non-specific neck pain by reducing their neck pain, cervical range of motion, and neck disability index.

Detailed description: The best infant feeding practice is breastfeeding, which has both immediate and long-term advantages for mothers, babies, the environment, the economy, and society as a whole. Mothers who are nursing frequently experience neck pain. Because the scapula and neck are closely related, scapular stabilization is becoming more and more popular for patients with neck pain.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. exclusive breastfeeding mothers with immediate to 6-month-old infants.
2. The bilateral cradle position is employed by patients when nursing.
3. Patients had mechanical neck pain.
4. Patients with a body mass index below 30 kg/m²
5. Patients have moderate pain intensity, ranging from 3 to 7 on the visual analogue scale
6. The patients' scores on the Neck Disability Index ranged from 10 to 40 out of 50.

Exclusion criteria:

1. Patients had preterm babies or low-birth-weight babies.
2. pregnant patients
3. Patients had postpartum complications.
4. Patients had inflammation, infection, severe degeneration, congenital deformity, and trauma.
5. Patients had sensory abnormalities or a positive motor reflex.
6. Patients had cancer, metabolic, or systemic diseases.

Primary outcomes:
measure: functional neck disability
timeFrame: at beginning of the study and after four weeks of treatment
measure: neck pain intensity
timeFrame: at beginning of the study and after four weeks of treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: pressure pain threshold
timeFrame: at beginning of the study and after four weeks of treatment
measure: cervical range of motion
timeFrame: at beginning of the study and after four weeks of treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Giza
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Physical Therapy/ Cairo University
state: Dokki
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Prof. Dr. Amel M. Yousef, Prof.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Abd El-Azeim AS, Mahmoud AG, Mohamed MT, El-Khateeb YS. Impact of adding scapular stabilization to postural correctional exercises on symptomatic forward head posture: a randomized controlled trial. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2022 Oct;58(5):757-766. doi: 10.23736/S1973-9087.22.07361-0. Epub 2022 Jun 8.
citation: Nitayarak H, Charntaraviroj P. Effects of scapular stabilization exercises on posture and muscle imbalances in women with upper crossed syndrome: A randomized controlled trial. J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil. 2021;34(6):1031-1040. doi: 10.3233/BMR-200088.