Effects of Pelvic Tilt Exercises With and Without Facet Joint Manipulation in Patients With Maigne's Syndrome

Maigne's syndrome is a pain disorder of low back which mainly affects the thoracolumbar junction of spine ,normally called as thoracolumber junction syndrome.It eludes healthcare professinals because of its pain presentation ,which is far away from the problematic site .Dr.Maigne wo was the founder of this syndrome stated that ,the most important cause behind this syndrome is Intervertebral dysfynction.It causes irritation ,inflammation and mild degeneration of involved intervertebral structures .Referred pain is the most important chracteristic of this syndrome which mainly involves lower back region ,groin ,lumbosacral region ,lower abdominl region and SI joint .Diagnostic criteria is based on 4 principles which need keen observation because many professionals simply fail to recognize it .

To treat the Maigne's syndrome manipulation and exercise therapy is directed. In exercise therapy pelvic tilt exercises which include simple pelvic tilt ,addition of pelvic muscles ,addition of back extension with pelvic tilt and positioning of hands on back while performing exercise .and on the other hand in manipulative therapy facet joint manipulation included to reduce the pain , to increase pain free movement and to decrease other associated sign and symptoms.

The aim of this study is to find the effectiveness of exercise therapy and manipulative therapy for patients with maigne's syndrome. It is a Randomized clinical trial and convenient random sampling is to be used with an inclusion criteria of patients having maignes syndrome without having neurological signs and specific spinal pathology like disc lesion ,malignancy or inflammatory disease and any other major medical conditions .patients also having lumbar flattening in lumbar lordosis according to MRI will be excluded.The main purpose of this randomized clinical trial will be to find out the effects of pelvic tilt exercises with and without facet joint manipulation in reducing pain and improvement in pain free sitting in patients with maigne's syndrome. Patients will be randomly allocated into two groups, Group A will receive exercise therapy intervention and Group B will receive manipulative therapy. Total duration of study will be three months with assessment will be done before treatment and after every 4 weeks. Numeric pain rating scale and oswestry index will be used to measure the outcomes. After collecting data from defined study setting, data will be entered and analyzed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows software, version 25. After assessing normality of data by Shapiro-Wilk test, it will be decided either parametric or non-parametric test will be used.

Inclusion criteria

• Patients ages ranging between 20-40 years among male
• Eligibility criteria include:
• Tenderness on palpation test at thoracolumbar junction
• Sensitivity difference on illiac crest
• Positive skin rounding test
• patients must have nonspecific unilateral pain in the lower lateral region of spine and radiates along the pelvis into the pubic region
• Written informed voluntary consent

Exclusion criteria

• Participants will be excluded if they had:
• specific spinal pathology (e.g. disc lesions, malignancy, or inflammatory disease) or any other major medical pathology.
• Patients having flattening in the lumbar lordosis according to the lumbar MRI results were excluded