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Clinical Pilates Training for Persons With Multiple Sclerosis

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Dokuz Eylül University (DEU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis

Treatments

Other: Home exercise program
Other: Pilates exercises

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03502772
3183-GOA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic-progressive and neurodegenerative disease. Thus, exercise programs are needed to maintain and increase functional status of persons with MS (pwMS). Pilates exercises designed by physiotherapist can enhance participation and functionality in pwMS. The aim is to investigate the effects of a clinical Pilates training on balance, walking, fall risk, respiratory and cognitive functions in pwMS.

Forty-two pwMS will be included in this randomized controlled trial. Participants will be divided into two groups with stratified randomization. Pilates exercises group (n=21) will receive therapy once a week for 8 weeks plus home exercise programme. The home exercise program group (n = 21) will be given written exercises that matched the aims of the Pilates exercises and the program compliance will be monitored by telephone calls once a week. The assessments will be done twice at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. The outcome measures include the Timed 25-Foot Walk (T25FW), Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT), Timed Up and Go (TUG), TUG cognitive and manual forms, 12-Item Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (MSWS-12), Curl-Up Test (CUT), Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, respiratory muscle strength assessment, Brief International Cognitive Assessment for MS (BICAMS).

Enrollment

42 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • a diagnosis of definite MS
  • an age over than 18 years
  • walking independently 100 meters
  • willingness to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

  • any neurological disease other than multiple sclerosis
  • relapse within 3 months
  • having orthopaedic disorders that could negatively affect gait and balance
  • having cardiopulmonary disorders
  • diagnosed cognitive and psychiatric problems
  • current and recent (within the last 6 months) participation in a core stability based exercise program

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

42 participants in 2 patient groups

Pilates exercises group
Experimental group
Treatment:
Other: Pilates exercises
Home exercise program group
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: Home exercise program

Trial contacts and locations

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