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EFECTS OF PELVIC STRENGTHENING EXERCISES WITH AND WITHOUT LUMBOPELVIC BELT ON POSTPARTUM FEMALES WITH PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN

. Mehr-un-Nisa Shafique, Muhammad Asghar, Huma Akhtar, Amber Tariq, Shanza Tanveer & Zara Fatima


Abstract

Objective: Pelvic girdle pain abbreviated as PGP. Pelvic girdle pain is the pain which is felt around the pelvic joints lower back hip and thighs. Pelvic girdle discomfort causes pain instability as well as limitation of mobility and functioning in the pelvic joints. A new intervention is used to treat this condition and check the efficacy of both groups. To determine the effects of pelvic strengthening exercises with or without the lumbopelvic belt on postpartum females with pelvic girdle pain.

Methodology: It was a randomized controlled trial and the sample size was 16. The sampling technique used was the convenient sampling among the patients of the pelvic girdle pain after post-partum period. Data was collected from those who fulfill the inclusion criteria. Group was randomly allocated into Group-A & Group-B. In the Group-A patients received lumbopelvic strengthening exercises with belt and Group-B received strengthening exercises without belt. VAS was used to measure the pain intensity and ODI was used to measure the pain related to the lower back region. The data was analyzed through SPSS version 25.

Results: Statistically significant difference in both groups in terms of VAS and ODI with p-value less than 0.05.

Conclusion: It was concluded that the lumbopelvic belt was the valuable intervention to reduce the pelvic girdle pain.

Indexed Terms_ Strengthening Exercises, Lumbopelvic Belt, Postpartum Females, Pelvic Girdle-Pain

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