Effects of Core Strengthening and Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness, and Fatigue Among Female Athletes
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Exercise Movement Techniques
- Sponsor
- Riphah International University
- Enrollment
- 44
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Posture
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief 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.
Detailed 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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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
- •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.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Posture
Time Frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
posture of the female athlete will be measured by New York posture rating chart for each of 13 body alignment segments
Body Awareness
Time Frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
Body Awareness Questionnaire will be used to measure the body awareness of female athlete
Fatigue
Time Frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
Modified fatigue impact scale instrument provides an assessment of the effects of fatigue with scoring from 36 in 21 items