The goal of this clinical trial is to asses the effect of non invasive stellate ganglion disrupting on sleep distyrbances on postmenopausal female . The primary hypothesis: There is no effect of noninvasive stellate ganglion disrupting on sleep disturbance parameters of postmenopausal women. There is no effect of noninvasive stellate ganglion disrupting on quality of female's life Non invasive stellate ganglion disrupting with physical modality TENS will be applied on participants of study group. The participants will be screened for estradiol level and assed for the quality of sleep by specialized questionnaire.
This study will be conducted on 32 postmenopausal women referred by physicians having sleep disturbances. They will be recruited from kafr el-zayat General Hospital, El-gharbia Governorate, Egypt. All participants will be given a full explanation of the protocol of the study and informed consent form will be signed from each subject before participating in this study. The protocol will be sent for approval the ethical committee of the faculty of Physical Therapy kafrelshekh University. The subjects will be divided randomly into two groups equal in number, study group (group A) and control group (group B): * Study group (group A): This group will consist of sixteen women complaining from sleep disturbance with post menopause who will receive TENS (Frequency 80 \_100 Hz), (Pulse duration: 150-200 μs, Pain-free stimulation intensity), (Duration;30 min). * Control group (group B): This group will consist of sixteen women complaining from sleep disturbance with post menopause.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
32
TENS (Frequency 80 \_100 Hz), (Pulse duration: 150-200 μs, Pain-free stimulation intensity), (Duration;30 min) On one side of the patient's neck, at the location of the stellate ganglion, we positioned two adhesive 25 mm to administer the TENS treatment, while the other side remained untreated. Of the two adhesive electrodes, one was placed near to the paravertebral location in the region of the trapezius muscle on its base near the sixth cervical transverse process, and the other in the region of the stellate ganglion in the supraclavicular aspect (Fig. 2). To obtain a stellate ganglion disrupting, we used a dual-channel TENS stimulator.
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Wafaa shaaban hassan elbeltagy
Tanta, Elgharbia, Egypt
Change of estradiole plasma level
by biochemical examination of estradiole plasma level
Time frame: After 3 months of treatment
Change of sleep quality
By assesment of the global pittsburgh sleep quality index scores a self-rated sleep questionnaire, were used to measure the quality of sleep. There are seven different parts that add up to a total of 19 questions. The scores range from 0 (no difficulty) to 3 (severe difficulty). The components include subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, length, and normal efficiency of sleep; they also include sleep disruptions, use of sleep medications, and dysfunction during the day. The seven component scores are also added together to create a global Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score, which ranges from 0 to 21. A score of more than 5 indicates a clinical sleep disability.
Time frame: After 3 months of treatment
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