Well-defined pelvic girdle pain Pregnancy and Childbirth Pelvic girdle pain
Conditions
Interventions
An independent specially trained physiotherapist will assess patients who are eligible and willing to participate in the study. This assessment will include a detailed standardized physical examinatio
Sponsors
University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Healthy women who have completed between 12 - 29 weeks of the gestational period 2. Patients must be well integrated in the Swedish language with singleton fetuses 3. Patients should have well defined pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain 4. Patients must be acupuncture naive 5. They have to have experienced an evening pain (according to the patient-kept diary) of more than 50 mm (visual analogue scale [VAS]) during the baseline week to be eligible
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Acupuncture experience 2. Other pain conditions 3. Systemic disorders 4. Contraindications to treatment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient scores the intensity of their present pelvic pain in relation to motion on a 100-point visual analogue scale (VAS) every morning and every evening in the diaries | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Function (Oswestery and Disability Rating Index [DRI]) 2. Health functioning (EuroQoL questionnaire) 3. Recovery from symptoms as assessed by an independent examiner 4. Every week during the study, the patient is asked if she has been sicklisted during the past week (yes or no). If the answer is yes, a note is then taken on the percentage of times the patient has been sicklisted, either 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% | — |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed