Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscles Down Training on Postpartum Coccydynia

NCT07667634 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 012/005734
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 52
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will be conducted to investigate the effect of pelvic floor muscle down training on postpartum coccydynia.

Conditions

Tailbone Disorders

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pain intensity

  Visual analogue scale will be used to measure the pain intensity before and after the treatment program. The VAS is a 10-point scale comprising a number from 0 through 10; 0 indicates "no pain", and 10 indicates the "worst imaginable pain". VAS is a valid \& reliable pain rating scale

  4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Function disability

  4 weeks

• Pelvic floor muscle tone

  4 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Pelvic floor muscle down training and stretching exercise group

EXPERIMENTAL

The participants will receive pelvic floor down training and stretching exercises, 3 sessions per week for 4 weeks.

Other: Pelvic floor down training exercise; Other: Stretching exercises

Stretching exercise group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The participants will receive stretching exercises, 3 sessions per week for 4 weeks.

Other: Stretching exercises

Interventions

Pelvic floor down training exercise OTHER

Patient will be asked to breathe deeply and bring her awareness to her pelvic floor. Feel her muscles relax as she inhales and maintain position for 5 seconds and then release for the same amount of time. Do two to three sets of 10 throughout the day. Once she masters this, she can try holding and releasing for longer periods of time. Make sure she is breathing while doing these exercises. It 's important to breathe all the way into her stomach (instead of only breathing into her chest). Keeping her belly relaxed. This is known as diaphragmatic breathing.

Pelvic floor muscle down training and stretching exercise group

Stretching exercises OTHER

stretching exercises for piriform and iliopsoas muscles with 5 second stretch hold, 5 repetitions/session for 5 sessions/week for four weeks.

Pelvic floor muscle down training and stretching exercise group; Stretching exercise group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Their ages will range from 18 to 30 years.
• Suffering from moderate coccyx pain which assessed by VAS.
• Their body mass index will be equal or less than 30 kg/m².
• Primipara and multipara -2:3 times‖ women.
• Six months to one year after childbirth.

You may not qualify if:

• Neurological disorders.
• Musculoskeletal disorders as Abnormal coccygeal morphology or abnormal scoliotic deformity
• Infection or malignancy.
• Fibromyalgia or myopathy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Alyaa Ragab Abdelmoity

Cairo, Egypt

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Muscle Stretching Exercises

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Exercise Therapy; Rehabilitation; Aftercare; Continuity of Patient Care; Patient Care; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities; Exercise; Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Hossam Kamel, Professor

  Al-Azhar University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Afaf Botla, Professor

  Cairo University

  STUDY CHAIR

Central Study Contacts

Alyaa R. Abdelmoity, Bachelor

CONTACT

+01017357127; alyaaragab83@gmail.com

Elham Shahat, PHD

CONTACT

01206146539; elhamramadan70@cu.edu.eg

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 9, 2026
• First Posted: June 25, 2026
• Study Start: July 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): October 15, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): October 31, 2026
• Last Updated: June 25, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Locations

EG (1)