Clinical trial NCT06705933: Effect of Kinesiotaping on Postpartum Pelvic Girdle Pain
Official title: Effect of Kinesiotaping on Postpartum Pelvic Girdle Pain
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pelvic Girdle Pain
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-11-26
Enrollment: 60
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 25
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of kinesiotaping on pelvic girdle pain in postpartum women.

Detailed description: Pregnancy-related pain in the SIJ, lumbosacral region, pubic symphysis, or in any combination of these joints has been coined as pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and has been estimated to affect almost half of all pregnant women. Women with PGP have an increased risk of prenatal anxiety, depressive symptoms and postpartum depression compared with healthy pregnant women.

Kinesio Taping is rehabilitative technique used to facilitate the body's natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints, without restricting their range of motion. Enhanced rehabilitation is thought to be the effect of stimulated reactivation, proprioceptive training, reduced pain, stimulation of correct movement patterns, and reduction of muscle imbalance.

Kinesio Taping (KT) method has been used to decrease and prevent pain in women suffering from pregnancy related low back pain because of increased muscle relaxation while taping is applied. However, there is lack of knowledge regarding the effect of kinesiotaping on PGP in postpartum women.

Therefore, this study will be conducted to provide physiotherapists with a scientific updated knowledge, concerning the effect of kinesiotaping on pain, level of disability and lumbar flexion and extension ROM in pelvic girdle pain in postpartum women, aiming to improve ADLs of postpartum women. This study may expand the role of physiotherapy in women's health

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All post-partum women \< 4 months postnatal having pelvic girdle pain.
* They will be diagnosed using Faber test, and active straight leg raising test.
* Their ages will range from 25 to 35 years.
* Their body mass index (BMI) less than 30 kg/ m².

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant women or planning for pregnancy.
* Cardiovascular diseases.
* Previous spinal surgery.
* History of skeletal deformity.
* Participation at any other exercise training program during this study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Assessment of pain
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Measurement of disability level
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Assessment of lumbar flexion range of motion (ROM)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Assessment of lumbar extension range of motion (ROM)
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Mariam Sobhy kamal
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Elham Hassan, PHD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Cairo University
name: Abeer Eldeeb, Professor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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