Investigating the Lumbar Proprioception and Core Muscles Recruitment Pattern While Getting Up from a Chair with Weight Lifting in Patients with Chronic Functional Constipation: Cross-sectional Study

Overview

Journal Int Urogynecol J

Publisher Springer

Specialties Gynecology & Obstetrics
Urology

Date 2023 Nov 22

PMID 37991565

Authors

Negar Azhdari

Samaneh Ebrahimi

Sara Abolahrari-Shirazi

Zahra Rojhani-Shirazi

Soha Bervis

Leila Ghahramani

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Abstract

Introduction And Hypothesis: Patients with chronic functional constipation have some problems such as weakness of pelvic floor muscles, and a lack of coordination of pelvic floor and abdominal muscles has been seen. The goal of this study was to investigate the lumbar proprioception and the core muscle recruitment pattern.

Methods: The study type is a cross-sectional case-control study. There were 30 participants (case, n = 15, and control, n = 15). Electromyography of the core muscles was recorded while the subjects were getting up from the chair accompanied by lifting a weight, to check the pattern of muscle recruitment. Moreover, the lumbar proprioception was evaluated by an isokinetic device in both groups. The study was analyzed using independent t test and Mann-Whitney U test, and a nonparametric Friedman test was performed followed by Bonferroni pairwise comparison.

Results: The comparison of muscle activity delay between the two groups showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups regarding the abdominal muscles, anal sphincter, and erector spinae (p < 0.05). However, there was no significant difference in the rectus femoris and gluteal muscles between the two groups (p > 0.05). Moreover, the proprioception of the lumbar region showed a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the two groups.

Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrated that the lumbar proprioception sense was reduced in the case group. This result can be justified, based on the problems in constipation (lack of coordination of muscles, weakness of pelvic floor muscles). The coordination of core muscles changed in patients with chronic functional constipation during a functional task.

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