Effect of Ballet Course on Lower Limb Strength, Balance, Working Memory and the Compliance and Satisfaction

Balance Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effects of Ballet Course on Lower Limb Muscle Strength, Balance and Working Memory of Fitness Studio Students and Their Compliance and Satisfaction With the Course

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05683587
• Other study ID #: KMUHIRB-E(I)-20220167
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 31, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
• Contact: Yi-Chun Lin
• Phone: 0934301658
• Email: ellie820610[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In recent years, sports have become popular, and major gyms or private exercise studios have been opened continuously. A dazzling array of course content allows students to choose according to their preferences. Therefore, how to improve students' compliance with gyms or classrooms, and increase exercise frequency to develop exercise habits , is the current problem faced by the industry.

However, in the case of limited time, the academic side is looking for more effective training courses, and the industry side is trying a variety of courses that are more attractive to the public, hoping to be different from the previous types of sports, improve the motivation of public sports, increase the frequency of exercise and then Maintain exercise habits.

Compared with aerobic dance, boxing, yoga and Pilates, ballet is a niche course, but more and more studies have pointed out that ballet can effectively improve posture, improve lower limb muscle strength, and improve cognitive, executive memory, and working memory.

Therefore, this study intends to explore the effect of ballet courses on lower limb explosiveness, static balance, dynamic balance, cognitive executive function and working memory of exercise studio students. degree and become one of the courses chosen by students for their classes.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 20 Years to 64 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Studio students willing to participate in the two-stage test.

• Aged between 20 and 64 years old.

• Able to perform test-related movements, including vertical jumping and tiptoe movements.

• No lower extremity musculoskeletal surgery has been performed within six months.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who are sick and unable to exercise vigorously under medical advice.

• Those who have studied classical ballet for up to one year.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Balance
• Compliance
• Lower Limb
• Satisfaction
• Strength
• Working Memory

Intervention

Other:
• ballet course, strength course
Include of two phase,first phase is strength course for three months and second phase is ballet course for three months.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Amy Studio fitness studio	Tainan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	baseline and first month
Primary	Change from first month Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	first month and second month
Primary	Change from second month Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	second month and third month
Primary	Change from third month Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	third month and fourth month
Primary	Change from fourth month Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	fourth month and fifth month
Primary	Change from fifth month Strength of lower limb	Vertical Jump Test	fifth month and sixth month
Secondary	Change from Baseline static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	baseline and first month
Secondary	Change from first month static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	first month and second month
Secondary	Change from second month static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	second month and third month
Secondary	Change from third month static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	third month and fourth month
Secondary	Change from fourth month static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	fourth month and fifth month
Secondary	Change from fifth month static balance	Stork Balance Stand Test	fifth month and sixth month
Secondary	Change from Baseline Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	baseline and first month
Secondary	Change from first month Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	first month and second month
Secondary	Change from second month Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	second month and third month
Secondary	Change from third month Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	third month and fourth month
Secondary	Change from fourth month Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	fourth month and fifth month
Secondary	Change from fifth month Dynamic balance	Timed-Up-and-Go test	fifth month and sixth month
Secondary	Change from Baseline Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	baseline and first month
Secondary	Change from first month Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	first month and second month
Secondary	Change from second month Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	second month and third month
Secondary	Change from third month Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	third month and fourth month
Secondary	Change from fourth month Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	fourth month and fifth month
Secondary	Change from fifth month Dynamic balance	Y-Balance Test	fifth month and sixth month
Secondary	Change from Baseline Working memory	D N-back test	baseline and third month
Secondary	Change from third month Working memory	D N-back test	third month and sixth month
Secondary	compliance and satisfaction of ballet and strength courses	Questionnaire	sixth month