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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Exercise Movement Techniques; Posture; Muscle Strength; Athletes
• Interventions: Other: Pilates exercise; Other: core strengthening exercise

• Registration Number: NCT06196268
• Lead Sponsor: Riphah International University

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-10-20
• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-12-25
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-09
• Primary Completion: 2024-02-20
• Study Completion: 2024-02-20
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-06
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 44

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

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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.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pilates exercise	Pilates exercise	Patients in Group B will receive Pilates exercises along with warm up exercises which includes hundreds, one leg stretch, shoulder bridge, hip twist, scissors, side kicks. Total treatment will be of 60 mins with thrice a week for 6 weeks.
core strengthening exercise	core strengthening exercise	Patients in Group A will receive core strengthening exercises along with the warm up exercises (lumbar stretches). 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. Total treatment will be of 60 mins with thrice a week for 6 weeks.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Posture	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	pre and 6 weeks post interventional	Body Awareness Questionnaire will be used to measure the body awareness of female athlete
Fatigue	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

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Pakistan sports board; 🇵🇰 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan