2.2. Randomization
To avoid bias, random assignments of the participants were carried out in two phases. First, fellow physiotherapists working in ambulatory clinics identified all women who satisfied the study’s inclusion criteria and did not have a criterion for exclusion. Second, women were assigned randomly in a 1:1 ratio to either the CAST-CR or AT-CR groups following a medical consultation through the launching of an obscure envelope designed by an unbiased subject with random number creation. Patients had given informed legal consent to participate in the study and to generalize the results. This work was officially approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Physiotherapy, Cairo University (no. P.T.REC/012/002156), registered in the Clinical Trials database: 