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Hatha Yoga Exercises in Pelvic and Lumbar Back Pain in Pregnant Woman

NCT01576978 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2012-04-13

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Summary

The aim of this study is to identify evaluate the effectiveness of stretching exercises of Hatha Yoga method in pregnant women with back pain and posterior pelvic City Paulínia. -There will be a randomized clinical trial with 60 pregnant women with these symptoms. They will be randomly divided into 2 groups. The group A will perform the exercises of Hatha Yoga for ten weeks, once a week group B postural follow the guidelines recommended for the treatment of these pains, for ten weeks. Will be used as a technique for evaluating the Visual Analogue Scale to measure pain intensity and confirmation tests of the lumbar and posterior pelvic pain in order to differentiate them. A descriptive statistical analysis of univariate and bivariate distributions will be made through frequency and graphical representation. The association between the variables will be tested by statistical tests: \[chi-square (X ²)\], Fisher's exact test, Student's t test or Mann-Whitney, \[Student's t test to compare means\], ANOVA for the analysis of effects between the groups. \[The significance level is predetermined to 5%\]. The data will be analyzed in EPI-INFO 2000. SAS 9.0 and from the database created .

Conditions

  • LUMBAR BACK PAIN
  • PELVIC PAIN
  • PREGNANCY

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

hatha yoga

The women's group of Yoga will participate in ten week sessions of Yoga once a week for an hour. The sessions will be taught by instructor of Hatha Yoga. For the intervention were chosen 37 postures, three breathing exercises. The sessions were divided into three stages: quieting the mind , breathing rate and the heating of the main joints, postures and breathing exercises, meditation and relaxation. At the beginning and end of each session, we evaluated the pain intensity.Pregnant women in the control group Postural orientations will receive a booklet containing guidelines postural figures and explanatory text on some possible changes in the curvatures of the spine during pregnancy suggestions for positioning of the spine for daily activities, lying postures, sitting and standing. After ten weeks the two groups will be scheduled for the final collection of data.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Campinas, Brazil

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roseny F Martins, Msc · Universtity of Campinas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

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