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Effect of Retro-walking on Postpartum Low Back Pain

NCT06600074 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2024-12-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will be conducted to determine the effect of retro walking on post partum low back pain.

Conditions

  • Postpartum Disorder
  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Back care advice

All patients in both groups will be advised to use proper lifting techniques, avoid prolonged sitting or standing, maintain a healthy weight, quit smoking, practice good posture, take breaks, spread housekeeping duties over the whole week, and sleep in supportive positions.

OTHER

Postural correction exercises

All patients in both groups will be instructed to perform postural correction exercise. They will be performed from different positions (crock lying, supine lying, supine, sitting and standing position). They will lie in crock lying position for example and the physical therapist will instruct them to do chin in , open out ribs through costal breathing, contract abdominal muscles, contract glutei, hold for 6 seconds and relax and repeat 10 times.

OTHER

Retro-walking

Patients in the experimental group only will practice walking backward on a treadmill, starting with a 5-minute warm-up at a self-selected speed, then gradually increasing speed from 1.2 to 1.6 m/s based on comfort and progress.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Afaf Mohamed Mahmoud Botla, PhD · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-16
Primary Completion
2024-11-22
Completion
2024-12-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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