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

Meralgia Paresthetica Clinical Trial

— MET  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04747119
• Other study ID #: P.T. REC/012/002864
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: October 6 University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Description:

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 25 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Femoral Neuropathy
• Meralgia Paresthetica
• Paresthesia

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Lama S Mahmoud	Al Jizah	Select State

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
October 6 University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Femoral nerve conduction latency	Femoral nerve conduction latency measured via the Neuropack S1 MEB9004 EMG device	4 weeks
Secondary	Pelvic compression test	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	four weeks
Secondary	Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)	it includes 11-point numeric scale ranges from no pain with score of "0" to worst pain imaginable with score of "10"	four weeks