Clinical Pilates and Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis

Eastern Mediterranean University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ankylosing Spondylitis; Exercise

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03211559

GO 16/147

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of Clinical Pilates Exercises on functional status and quality of life when applied together with aerobic exercise in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

Full description

According to the power analyzes 32 patients, who were diagnosed as Ankylosing spondylitis, will be taken to the study. In the first session their spinal mobility, flexibility, dynamic and static balance, back and lower limb muscle strength, pulmonary functions and pulmonary muscle strength, disease activity level, fatigue level, functional exercise capacity will be assessed to determine functional status by a physiotherapist. Also their quality of life and factors affecting the quality will be assessed. Then the patients will be divided into two exercise groups randomly. Patients in the first group will only do aerobic exercise, patients in the second group will do clinical pilates additional to the aerobic exercise which has the same protocol with the first group. Patients will do the exercise for 8 weeks, 3 times a day individually with a physiotherapist . At the end of the 8 weeks they will be assessed with the same tests again.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Man and woman diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis .

Exclusion criteria

• Any neurological or muscle diseases
• Inability to continuously attend the exercise program
• Visual, hearing or mental problems that could prevent communication
• Using mobility aids
• Pregnancy
• Malignity
• Having a surgery recently
• Doing exercise regularly in last 3 months.
• Having a cardiopulmonary problem which is not under control.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

AEROBİC EXERCİSE (walking on treadmill)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients walked on treadmill for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week,30-40 minutes each.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Aerobic Exercise+Clinical Pilates

Experimental group

Description:

Patients walked on treamill for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week, 30-40 minutes each. Additionally they did clinical pilates exercise for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise