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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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Diaphragmatic breathing exercise group | Experimental | Diaphragmatic breathing exercise through telehealth |
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| Pelvic stabilization exercise group | Active Comparator | Pelvic stabilization exercise through telehealth |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Diaphragmatic breathing retraining | Other | 8 weeks diaphragmatic breathing training |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Muscle function measures of lumbopelvic muscles | Ultrasonography image for muscle thickness of trunk and back muscles during rest and during active straight leg raise. Ultrasonography image for bladder displacement for pelvic floor muscles during rest,maximum contraction and during active straight leg raise | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Diaphragm thickness | Ultrasonography image for diaphragm thickness during maximum inspiration and expiration (B mode) | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Diaphragm mobility | Ultrasonography image for mobility during maximum inspiration and expiration (M mode) | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Diaphragm strength | Ultrasonography image for diaphragm strength during maximal sniff and expiration (M mode). The slope achieved (mm/sec) during the diaphragmatic excursion is used to calculate the velocity of the diaphragmatic contraction | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Mechanical Property of Thoracolumbar Fascia | The biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of the muscles will be measured using a non-invasive myometer. It automatically calculate and provide the biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of stiffness, frequency, decrement, and stress relaxation time that offer the information of tone, elasticity, stiffness and stress relaxation time of the tested tissue. | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Functional performance of ASLR fatigue task | Participants lifted the heel of the test leg to 20 cm for as long as possible. Participants were required to maintain pressure in the cuff beneath their back as close to 40 mm Hg as possible. Visual feedback of cuff pressure was provided throughout the task, but no instruction was given on how to affect cuff pressure. Task failure was defi ned as an inability to maintain heel height 10 cm or more off the plinth and/or a change in cuff pressure of 20 mm Hg or more. |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| National Cheng Kung University | Recruiting | Tainan | Taiwan | 701 | Taiwan |
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| ID | Term |
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| D059388 | Pelvic Girdle Pain |
| ID | Term |
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| D059352 | Musculoskeletal Pain |
| D010146 | Pain |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
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| Pelvic stabilization exercise | Other | 8 weeks pelvic stabilization exercise training |
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| pelvic anatomy education | Other | pelvic anatomy education |
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| Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Functional performance of timed up and go test | Test instructions were given in Norwegian. Translated into English, the instructions were as follows: 'After "ready, set, go" stand up, walk as fast as you can until you cross the white line, turn around, and walk back to the chair and sit down again'. The white line was positioned 3m from the patient's starting position. 'After "ready, set, go" stand up, walk as fast as you can until you cross the white line, turn around, and walk back to the chair and sit down again'. The white line was positioned 3m from the patient's starting position. | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Functional performance of 6m timed walk test | Subjects commenced the test in standing with their toes up against the tape marker. Test instructions translated into English were as follows: 'After "ready, set, go", walk as fast as you can up to the last white line without stopping or speaking along the way'. Performances were timed (to the nearest 100th of a second) between the 2m and 8m markers and later converted into speed in metres per second. | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| pain intensity measure of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) | Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) is a self-reported instrument assessing average pain intensity in currently. Possible score range from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain). | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Disability Level: measure of pelvic girdle questionnaire(PGQ) | pelvic girdle questionnaire(PGQ) is a self-reported instrument assessing pelvic girdle pain intensity in currently. Questionnaire consisting of 20 activity items and 5 symptom items on a 4-point response scale. Possible score range from 0 (no pain) to 100 (worst possible pain). | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Health-related Quality of Life: Short Form-36 (SF36) | SF-36 include 36 questions constructing into 8 domains (i.e., physical functioning, physical role, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, emotional role, and mental health). The scores of physical and mental components and total are ranged from 0 to 100, with higher scores representing better quality of life | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Fear Avoidance Belief: Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia | Fear of movement, fear of physical activity, and fear avoidance will be assessed using the Tampa scale of kinesiophobia (TSK). The TSK is 17-items questionnaire, where patients rate their agreement using 4-points scale. It consists of two subscales including activity avoidance to reflect the activity that may result in an increase in pain or cause injury, and somatic focus to reflect the beliefs and underlying serious conditions | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Self-Efficacy: Pain Self-efficacy Questionnaire | The pain self-efficacy questionnaire (PSEQ) is a 10-item questionnaire, where patients rate their confidence from 0 points (not at all confident) to 6 points (completely confident). Total scores of the PSEQ is 60 points and a higher score indicates more self-efficacy | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Parenting Stress Level: Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) | The PSI-SF is a self-reported questionnaire that consists of 36 items to assess stress related to three aspects including parent-child relationship, parental distress, and difficulties in the parent-child interaction. The subscales for parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction and difficult child, as well as the total stress scale are rated from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The higher the score indicates the greater the stress. | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| Self-perceived Change: Global Rating of Change Scale (GROC) | The GROC rates perceived "overall change" on a 15-point Likert scale, with 7 (labeled "worse") on the left, +7 (labeled "better") on the right, and 0 in the middle (labeled "no change") compared to the baseline. | Change from baseline to 8 weeks |
| D013568 |
| Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D017699 | Pelvic Pain |