The Effects of Sacroiliac Joint Manual Therapy on Autonomic Nervous System and Lower Abdominal Pain in Women in Their 20s With Primary Dysmenorrhea

Sahmyook University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Primary Dysmenorrhea

Treatments

Behavioral: spine manual therapy

Device: Superficial heat therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05752864

SYU 2023-01-002-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Disorders of the autonomic nervous system are considered another possible cause of dysmenorrhea. spinal manual threapty is acting on the parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves.

The sacrum affects all vertebrae, which affects the position of this bone, is thought to have a lot to do with dysmenorrhea.

In this study, by applying spinal manual threapty threapty to the sacroiliac joint in women in their 20s with primary dysmenorrhea, we tried to present an effective treatment method by evaluating the function of the autonomic nervous system and confirming the occurrence of pain in the lower abdomen.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

20 to 29 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Women between the ages of 20-29
Regular menstrual cycle (24-32 days)
Those who have had symptoms of primary dysmenorrhea for at least 1 year
Those who have lower back pain symptoms related to menstrual pain of 5 or higher on the Visual Analysis Scale (VAS)
The body mass index is between 20-30
Positive reaction to Gillet test

Exclusion criteria

pelvic inflammatory disease
uterine fibroids, polycystic ovary syndrome. Those with gynecological findings such as endometriosis
Those who have used an intrauterine contraceptive device
Those who took birth control pills or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs at the time of the experiment