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NCT Number: NCT04747119

Effect of MET on Meralgia Paraesthesia Postpartum "Muscle Energy Technique"

To investigate the effect of muscle energy technique on Femoral meralgia paraesthesia in a postpartum female. BACKGROUND: meralgia paraesthesia is one of the serious disorders in the postpartum female which results in pain and less physical activities.

………HYPOTHESES:

This study hypothesized that:

muscle energy technique will have a significant effect on Femoral meralgia paraesthesia in postpartum female

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Key information

Conditions

Meralgia Paresthetica Femoral Neuropathy Mononeuropathies Nervous System Diseases Neuromuscular Diseases Peripheral Nervous System Diseases

Age range

25 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Lama S Mahmoud

Al Jīzah, Select State, Egypt

About this study

Thirty meralgia paraesthesia postpartum females will participate in this study.

The patients will randomly be divided into two equal groups; the control group received the conventional selected exercise program and the study group received the same exercise training program in addition to muscle energy technique, three times per week for four weeks.

The evaluation methods by Femoral nerve conduction velocity will be measured via the Neuropack S1 MEB9004 EMG device before the exercise program and after finishing the exercise program, and also the Pelvic compression test and Pain numeric rating scale

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Thirty meralgia paraesthesia postpartum female Patients
  • with positive Pelvic compression test
  • age ranging from 25:40 years
  • post vaginal delivery or post-operative (postpartum) persistent dysthesia in anterolateral thigh (one side or both)
  • body mass index (20:29.9) Kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

  • difficulty to communicate or to understand program instructions
  • other conditions that caused pain (for example fibromyalgia and arthritis)
  • any psychiatric or cognitive symptoms any other musculoskeletal disorders or neurologic diseases of the lower extremities and spine

Treatment and study plan

Muscle Energy Technique

Other

the patient was supine and the therapist fix the lower limb of the affected side then ask the patient to perform isometric contraction for abductors maintained for 3-5 seconds, then the patient was instructed to stop, exhale and relax then the therapist perform further adducted the patient's knee of the affected side as a stretching exercise for Three to five repetitions of these directions were performed.

conventional selected physical therapy

Other
  • life style modification
  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
  • Flexibility stretching exercises to the hip flexors

Primary outcomes

  1. Femoral nerve conduction latency

    Time frame: 4 weeks

    Femoral nerve conduction latency measured via the Neuropack S1 MEB9004 EMG device

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pelvic compression test

    Time frame: four weeks

    the therapist applied a downward compression force to the pelvis and maintained a pressure for 45 seconds. If the patients reported an alleviation of symptoms the test is considered positive

  2. Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)

    Time frame: four weeks

    it includes 11-point numeric scale ranges from no pain with score of "0" to worst pain imaginable with score of "10"

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

October 6 University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Effect of Muscle Energy Technique on Femoral Meralgia Paraesthesia in Postpartum: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Acronym: MET

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2021
First posted
Feb 10, 2021
Registry last updated
Feb 10, 2021

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