Pregnant women may exercise both abdominal and pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy without increasing the diastasis recti abdominis: a randomised trial.

Question: What is the effect of a 12-week abdominal and pelvic floor muscle exercise program during pregnancy on the inter-recti distance (IRD) in women with diastasis recti abdominis immediately after the 12-week intervention period and at follow-up 6 weeks postpartum?

Design: An exploratory, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial with concealed allocation, assessor blinding and intention-to-treat analysis.

Participants: Ninety-six pregnant women aged ≥ 18 years, either primigravida or multigravida, in gestation week 24 with an IRD of ≥ 28 mm measured at rest and/or a protrusion on initial assessment.

Intervention: The experimental group participated in a 12-week abdominal and pelvic floor muscle exercise program during pregnancy.

Effect of exercise on the inter-rectus distance in pregnant women with diastasis recti abdominis: an experimental longitudinal study.

Objective: To investigate the effect of acute contraction of the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) and abdominal exercises on the inter-rectus distance (IRD) compared to resting values, and differences between gestation weeks 27 and 37, in pregnant women with diastasis recti abdominis (DRA).

Design: Experimental longitudinal design.

Setting: Physiotherapy clinic, primary health care.

Community living after in-hospital specialized rehabilitation in patients with severe disability after stroke: a long-term follow-up after a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Physical functioning after discharge from specialized rehabilitation is a concern. The purpose of this study was to investigate functioning and health after a long period of community living in participants with severe disability after stroke.

Materials And Methods: An observational, longitudinal follow-up design was used to investigate 60 participants from a randomized controlled trial.

Effect of a specific exercise programme during pregnancy on diastasis recti abdominis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is a common condition in pregnant and postpartum women.Evidence for the treatment of DRA is both sparse and weak. As thiscondition occurs during the last two trimesters of pregnancy and there is a paucity of high-quality studies on a pregnant population, we will conduct a randomised trial on the effect ofa specific exercise programme during pregnancy on DRA.

Pain pressure threshold algometry in knee osteoarthritis: intra- and inter-rater reliability.

Introduction: Synovitis and effusion can cause pain sensitization in persons with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Pain Pressure Threshold (PPT) algometry is a means to quantify somatosensory abnormalities, including inflammatory-mediated pressure hyperalgesia. We investigated the reliability of PPT algometry with three raters.