Screening for Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain
ConditionPelvic Girdle Pain
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexFemale
AgeNot listed
SponsorBlekinge County Council Hospital
About this trial
To perform clinical manual pain provocation tests of the pelvic joints in pain free pregnant women early in pregnancy, follow them until delivery, and compare those who develop PPGP with those who don't.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Pregnant women before gestational week 20 without any ongoing symptoms of pain from their pelvic joints.
Disqualifiers
Fibromyalgia
sick-leave
working at home
treatment of the pelvic joints during the pregnancy
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Manual pain provocation tests
Diagnostic testValidated and empirical pain provocation tests of the pelvic joints will be performed, both to exclude ongoing symptoms, and to diagnose one or several dysfunctions. The participants will be asked questions regarding previous symptoms, traumas, type of profession etc.
Treatment groups
360 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Pregnant women without symptoms of pregnancy related pelvic girdle painOther 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Correlation between pain provocation tests, different risk factors and full time sick-leave.
Screening of symptom free pregnant women at their first visit in Maternity care using pain provocation tests of the pelvic joints, together with known risk factors for Pregnancy related Pelvic Girdle Pain (PPGP), and a plausible association with the primary outcome full time sick-leave due to PPGP.
Time frame
Approximately six months for each participantSponsors and contacts
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Blekinge County Council Hospital
Lead sponsor
Lund University
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov