Pelvic Girdle Pain in a Pregnant Population in Western Norway.

NCT01098136 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 650

Last updated 2012-08-31

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Summary

The objectives in this study are

1. to explore the incidence and cumulative prevalence of pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and its subgroups in a prospective longitudinal study during pregnancy, from 18 weeks until 6 weeks after delivery.
2. to examine the outcome of chiropractic management for a dominating one-sided PGP subgroup of pregnant women in a single-blinded controlled study, and to use efficacy measures that include pain, functional impairment, and sick-leave frequency.
3. to investigate possible predictors for treatment outcome in one-sided PGP in pregnant women.

Conditions

  • Pelvic Girdle Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Chiropractic

Manual treatment of musculoskeletal complaints

OTHER

Conventional medical intervention

Medical, physiotherapy

OTHER

Conventional and alternative intervention

Medical and alternative methods for treatment of pelvic pain syndromes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Stavanger

    collaborator OTHER
  • Helse Stavanger HF

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Stefan Malmquist, DC MSc · Helse Stavanger HF

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-03-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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