More than 50% of women experience pain in the lumbopelvic area during pregnancy. The prevalence of pain increases with the duration of pregnancy. Trunk muscles are needed to sustain low levels of activity for an extended duration. Preventing muscles from fatiguing is very important. Manual therapy techniques can minimize loading of the spine while improving muscular endurance and preventing fatigue. Moreover, inhibition of the trigger points of the spinal musculature is an important factor to consider.
Tui-Na massage and positional release therapy are both of the common manual therapies used recently for low back pain. However, no studies have compared their effects on pregnancy related low back pain in third trimester.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
40
Using Tui-na massage for the back muscles
using positional release manual technique to relax the back muscles
Benha University
Cairo, Benah, Egypt
back pain intensity
will be measure by the visual analogue scale that range from 0 to 10 with higher scores indicating greater pain intensity.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 months
The pressure pain threshold (kg/cm2)
will be measured using a pressure algometer that will be placed vertically on the most tender point at the low back para spinal muscles.
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 2 months
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