Core Strengthening vs Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness and Fatigue Among Female Athletes

Muscle Strength Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Core Strengthening and Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness, and Fatigue Among Female Athletes

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06196268
• Other study ID #: REC/RCR&AHS/23/0436
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 20, 2023
• Est. completion date: February 20, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Riphah International University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is randomized and single-blinded. Ethical approval is taken from ethical committee of Riphah International University, Lahore. Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be enrolled and allocated in group A & B through sealed envelope method by Non-probability Convenient random sampling technique. Subjects in Group A will receive Core Strengthening exercises. Group B will receive Pilates exercises.

Description:

The objective of the study is to determine the Effects of Core Strengthening and Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness, and Fatigue among Female Athletes. The study is randomized and single-blinded. Ethical approval is taken from ethical committee of Riphah International University, Lahore. Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be enrolled and allocated in group A & B through sealed envelope method by Non-probability Convenient random sampling technique. Subjects in Group A will receive Core Strengthening exercises. Group B will receive Pilates exercises. York posture rating chart, body awareness scale, and modified fatigue impact scale will be done at the baseline and after the completion of treatment at 6 weeks. The data will be analyzed by SPSS, version 25. Statistical significance is P=0.05.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 44
• Est. completion date: February 20, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: February 20, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 26 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Amateur female athletes 18-26 years of age,
• Duration of playing at least 6 months to 1 year,
• BMI <29 kg/m2, Core training not less than 4 weeks,
• Females having no previous injury that could interfere with the study,
• Females are not currently using nutritional supplements

Exclusion Criteria:

• Smoking,
• sleeping medications,
• complementary medicine use over the last six months,
• Stressful events in the past three months,
• presence of a physical or mental illness, or surgical history,
• Presence of any neurological and vascular disease,
• Participants having another exercise program which can affect the results,
• Participants who are not able to participate in any regular exercise program.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Athletes
• Exercise Movement Techniques
• Fatigue
• Muscle Strength
• Posture

Intervention

Other:
• core strengthening exercise
CSE will constitute of abdominal hollowing, Side Bridge, supine extension bridge, straight leg rise from prone, alternate arm and leg raise from quadruped, and prone bridge
• Pilates exercise
Pilates includes hundreds, one leg stretch, shoulder bridge, hip twist, scissors, side kicks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Pakistan	Pakistan sports board	Lahore	Punjab

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Riphah International University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Pakistan, 

References & Publications (8)

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Karuc J, Misigoj-Durakovic M. Relation between Weight Status, Physical activity, Maturation, and Functional Movement in Adolescence: An Overview. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 2019 May 30;4(2):31. doi: 10.3390/jfmk4020031. — View Citation

Martins HS, Ludtke DD, Cesar de Oliveira Araujo J, Cidral-Filho FJ, Inoue Salgado AS, Viseux F, Martins DF. Effects of core strengthening on balance in university judo athletes. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2019 Oct;23(4):758-765. doi: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2019.05.009. Epub 2019 May 14. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Posture	posture of the female athlete will be measured by New York posture rating chart for each of 13 body alignment segments	pre and 6 weeks post interventional
Primary	Body Awareness	Body Awareness Questionnaire will be used to measure the body awareness of female athlete	pre and 6 weeks post interventional
Primary	Fatigue	Modified fatigue impact scale instrument provides an assessment of the effects of fatigue with scoring from 36 in 21 items	pre and 6 weeks post interventional