The Effect of Physical Exercise in Reducing Pain in Women Undergoing Mammography

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pain; Side Effects

Treatments: Procedure: Physical exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02215668

313.907

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mammography is a systematic way in the main programs of screening for breast cancer in women over 40 or 50 years old, according to screening programs, but most research has shown a frequency of discomfort and pain during the examination mammography. This study is a randomized controlled trial, whose intervention will be a sequence of exercises body warming and muscle stretching, performed systematic manner and supervised by a physical educator. It is expected to find in this study a possible impact of physical exercise in reducing pain after mammography examination.

Full description

This research aims to evaluate the relationship of pre-mammography guided physical activity and pain after the examination, evaluating the impact of the intervention in a group of patients undergoing upper limb exercise (SLE), compared to another group women not subject exposure (MNE), and another group with lower limb exercise (LLE). This study is a randomized controlled trial, whose intervention will be a sequence of exercises body warming and muscle stretching, performed systematic manner and supervised by a physical educator. It is expected to find in this study a possible impact of physical exercise in reducing pain after mammography examination. The results will be checked by study association between the level of physical activity, body mass index, breast density and reducing the pain effect between groups for comparison of means and variances of values of the visual analogue scale (VAS).

Enrollment: 198 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 69 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women: 20 to 69 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Cardiovascular disease
• Mental diseases
• Pulmonary diseases
• Steroids use

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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198 participants in 3 patient groups

No physical exercise

No Intervention group

Description:

Women are never subjected to any exercise prior to mammography.

Physical exercise (Upper limb)

Experimental group

Description:

Women will be subjected to physical exercise on upper limb prior to mammography.

Treatment:

Procedure: Physical exercise

Group 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Women are subjected to physical exercise in the lower limbs prior to mammography

Treatment:

Procedure: Physical exercise