Participants
sepsis, Diabetes Mellitus, abdominal hernia
CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS, DIASTASIS, DIABETES MELLITUS, RECRUITMENT, SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SEPSIS, DISEASE, COMPLICATIONS
Eligible women aged 20–40 years who were to undergo elective CS were asked to participate in the study. According to the unit policy, all women scheduled for elective CS are admitted to the wards 24 h before the scheduled time. Therefore, women who provided their consent were promptly recruited for the study immediately after their admission, ensuring their inclusion in the trial without delay. This allowed for a standardized and consistent approach in the recruitment process, ensuring the timely initiation of the study protocol for each participant. Upon randomization to the intervention arm, participants received a comprehensive 10-minute face-to-face physiotherapy session within the ward during the first day of their hospital stay.The inclusion criteria include women who had given informed written consent for Category “4” CS due to fetal and maternal indications. Mothers who had undergone two or more CSs or abdominal surgeries, who had complications such as Diabetes Mellitus, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, connective tissue disorders, sepsis, patients on Disease Modifying Anti Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) and oral steroids, patients who could not comply with the physiotherapy interventions such as mentally incapacitated patients, patients who were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), deliveries with operative complications, CSs with general/epidural anaesthesia and using patient-controlled anaesthesia, and patients with an abdominal hernia and Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (DRA) larger than 2 cm were excluded from the study.