Overview
The goal of this interventional study is to compare investigate the short-term and long-term effects of 8-week real-time telehealth-based diaphragmatic breathing exercise and pelvic stabilization exercise on pain, disability, and quality of life in postpartum women with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age between 20-65 years
- Postpartum ≥ 3 months
- Pain located in sacroiliac joints (i.e., pain located between the posterior iliac crest and gluteal fold)
- Pregnancy-related cause of pelvic pain that pain occurs during pregnancy or after delivery (i.e., not traumatic or degenerative cause)
- At least 2 positive findings of 6 pain provocation tests for pelvic pain
- Score of Active Straight Leg Rise (ASLR) test > 0
Exclusion Criteria:
- being pregnant or actively trying to get pregnant
- having known causes of pelvic girdle pain, such as fractures and rheumatism
- having undergone lumbar, pelvic, gynecologic or obstetric surgery
- having current neurological symptoms and signs in lower extremities such as lumbar radiculopathy and myelopathy
- having cancer
- having cardiovascular disease
- being diagnosed as having a psychiatric disease
- active infection or infectious disease in the pelvis or abdomen
- having experience with structured and supervised core or trunk exercise training programs.