Analysis of the Effectiveness of Aquatic Exercise on the Static and Dynamic Balance in Pregnant Women

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pregnancy; Aquatic Physical Exercise; Balance
• Interventions: Other: Aquatic exercise - AIPAP program; Other: Aquatic exercise - own monitors program

• Registration Number: NCT04619394
• Lead Sponsor: José M. Cancela

Brief Summary

Research about the balance in pregnant women who perform water exercise and those who do not engage in any type of sporting activity. The initial objectives are to know if there is an improvement in the balance in women who perform aquatic exercise reviewed at the end of pregnancy versus those who do not, through the use of a podiatric platform. This experimental randomized controlled study (RCT) will be carried out in sports centers and / or public or private municipal swimming pools in the south of Galicia The recruitment of passive pregnant women (control group) will be carried out in the health center of Pontevedra Virxe da Peregrina in the first visit to the midwife in the 10th and 12th week of gestation, while the recruitment of the active pregnant women (group experimental 1 and experimental group 2) in the teaching centers of the aquatic exercise sessions in the same weeks of gestation. The women of the three groups will have a low-risk normoevolutive pregnancy and will be studied in the first and third trimesters. The instruments that will be used to obtain data will be through an initial questionnaire, a platform and study of stability through the center of gravity and base of podiatric support. The plan for analyzing the data will be done through SPSS 17.0.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-04-03
• Study Completion: 2020-04-22
• Status Verified: 2020-11
• Study First Submitted: 2020-11-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-11-02
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-06
• Last Update Posted: 2020-11-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

• The criteria for inclusion of the sample are: 1. Women aged between 20 and 35 years since before 20 years and after 35 years it is associated with a greater maternal and perinatal risk.2. The intensity of the physical workload must be moderate to very light . 3. The gestational age (EG) in which they are captured must be delimited between 10 and 12 weeks of gestation (SG) without any obstetric risk or associated pathology, primiparous or multiparous.

Exclusion Criteria

• Exclusion and withdrawal criteria. The exclusion criteria will be: 1. Present any type of absolute / relative obstetric contraindication. 2. Not to have notions of swimming. 3. Multiple pregnancies. 4. Pregnant women with cognitive / physical disability. 5. Present some diagnosed pathology that alters the normal balance as neurological, traumatological or podiatric diseases.

The appearance of any warning signs / symptoms such as vaginal bleeding, feeling light-headed or faint, difficulty breathing before doing exercise, chest pain, headache, muscle weakness, pain or swelling in the calves, Regular and painful contractions in the uterus and drip of fluid through the vagina, will imply the abandonment of the physical exercise program that was developing.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental Group 2 (GE2)	Aquatic exercise - AIPAP program	Experimental Group 2 (GE2): In this third and last group, we incorporated the AIPAP program into the exclusive programs of each monitor in the various public and private sports centers and swimming pools in the South of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. The researcher trained in this method, together with the monitors who voluntarily wish to do so, will translate said format and program into their sessions.
Experimental Group 1 (GE1)	Aquatic exercise - own monitors program	Experimental Group 1 (GE1): Created for pregnant women who carry out their own program of each monitor in the different sports centers and public and private swimming pools in the South of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. These own programs will all have the same format: initial warm-up phase, main part of indicated and personalized exercises for pregnancies and final phase with a return to calm.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Balance	24 weeks	Balance analysis by force platform

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universidad de Vigo; 🇪🇸 Pontevedra, Spain