PILATES METHOD ON THE UPPER LIMBS FUNCTIONALITY

Breast Neoplasm Female Clinical Trial

Official title:

PILATES METHOD ON THE UPPER LIMBS FUNCTIONALITY OF THE MASTECTOMIZED WOMEN

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03826979
• Other study ID #: 2.510.081
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

INTRODUCTION: Breast cancer is one of the pathologies affecting women worldwide, with a high mortality rate of 14,206 per 100,000 women per year. However, Pilates was used as a therapeutic treatment for women who underwent a modified radical mastectomy, being associated with the alterations when in the postoperative sequels.

OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the Pilates Method in the functionality of women submitted to modified radical mastectomy.

METHOD: This is a quantitative clinical trial, in the form of women included in the project, to undergo a physical therapy rehabilitation program through the Pilates Method for 2 months, where they were evaluated before and after the procedure for measurement and comparison obtained.

CONCLUSION: In this way, the pilates method is presented as an instrument used for the rehabilitation of mastectomized women.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 22
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 30 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female subjects, between 30 and 65 years, with a diagnosis of breast cancer, who underwent radical-mastectomy surgery and who had after 30 postoperative days

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who present alterations in healing, severe pain, who have another type of treatment, people who lack more than three times in the research, quitters, people with relapses and who do not tolerate the treatment protocol.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Neoplasm Female
• Breast Neoplasms

Intervention

Other:
• Pliates method treatment
The participants undergo to a physical therapy rehabilitation program through the Pilates Method for 2 months.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Raphael Pereira	Belém	PA

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Muscle strength	Medical Research Council scale for muscle power	2 months
Primary	Range of motion	Range of motion evaluation by goniometry	2 months
Primary	Functionality assess with Functional independence measure scale	Functional independence measure scale	2 months