Functional Exercises With Water Intake in Primary Dysmenorrhea

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Primary Dysmenorrhea

Treatments: Other: Exercise and Water Intake

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05285475

024433

Details and patient eligibility

About

Dysmenorrhea and its associated symptoms are very common in women. In Pakistan, almost 78% of women report Primary Dysmenorrhea. This will be a randomized controlled trial with two parallel groups. one group will be receiving functional exercises along with water intake and the other will be receiving no interventions.

Full description

Mostly in the reproductive years of age women suffers from the Pain of Menstruation which is known as Dysmenorrhea. In Pakistan every other girl is silently suffers from this disease leading to the inefficiency and one of the main cause of school and work absenteeism. This novel study is designed to target the menstrual symptoms of women with functional exercises combine with optimal intake of water. The objective of this study is to determine the effects of functional exercises with water intake on menstrual symptoms and pain in Primary Dysmenorrhea.

This is a Randomized controlled study. Before the study, all the participants will go through baseline evaluation, and then allocated to the groups. The exercise protocol consisting of the combination of exercises with regular intake of water (in bouts) will be informed to them. Females fulfilling the criteria and willing to participate in exercise trial will be recruited in the study. Outcome will be assessed at baseline and post treatment after 8th week.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age group 15-35
• Patients with pain at a severity level of 5 on NPRS during menstruation.
• Primary Dysmenorrhea diagnosis made on WALIDD score
• Patients having regular menstrual cycle

Exclusion criteria

• Patients having some previous surgical history
• Patients diagnosed with Secondary Dysmenorrhea
• Abnormal Cognition
• Involved in any regular physical activity for last 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

Experimental group

Description:

The exercise protocol for this group will be abdominals, pelvic stretching and kegels exercises (PFM) for three days/week lasting about 30 minutes with approximately 1600-1800ml (8-10 glasses) intake of water for 8 weeks (two consecutive menstrual cycles) Exercises include: Piriformis stretching (5 repetitions×20 seconds) Adductor stretching (5 repetitions×20 seconds) Sit-ups (10 repetitions×3 sets) Bridging (10 repetitions×3 sets) Kegels exercises (10 repetions×3 sets) Pelvic elevation (10 repetitions×3 sets) Pelvic rotation (10 repetitions×3 sets) Cobra pose (5 repetitions×20 seconds)

Treatment:

Other: Exercise and Water Intake

Group B

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in this group will be asked neither to do any exercise nor to change their daily basis routine.