Comparative Effects of Aerobic Exercises and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises on Pain and Quality of Life

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Syndrome; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Progressive muscle relaxation; Other: Aerobic exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05811455

REC/RCR & AHS/22/054

Details and patient eligibility

About

Premenstrual syndrome is the clinical condition in which reproductive age females suffer from emotional and physical symptoms not related to any disease, starting usually 5 days before the menstrual cycle for 3 consecutive cycles.

Full description

Premenstrual syndrome is the clinical condition in which reproductive age females suffer from emotional and physical symptoms not related to any disease, starting usually five days before the menstrual cycle for three consecutive cycles. As menstrual cycle starts in females these symptoms vanish on 4th day of menstruation. Around 10% to 53% of female adults suffer from this condition. This condition limits activities of daily life and adversely effects the quality of life therefore, the administration of proper medical intervention is very important. Aerobic exercises and progressive muscle relaxation exercises have been effective in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome previously in a few studies. However, these two interventions have never been compared to test their effects on pain, and functional performance.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 to 40 years
• Females in their last week of the luteal phase (1 week before menstruation)
• Females with regular menstrual with equal intervals between 21 and 35 days
• Females with a score of 133 and above after being screened with Premenstrual syndrome scale
• Females suffering from PMS for at least the past six months

Exclusion criteria

• Females with the irregular menstrual cycle
• Pregnant females
• Menstruating females or females in the follicular or ovulatory phase
• History of physical exercise in the past three months before the beginning of the study
• Females suffering from other gynecological issues such as endometriosis, PCOS, uterine or cervical cancer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 3 patient groups

Group A: aerobic exercises.

Experimental group

Description:

The first treatment group will be given aerobic exercises for six weeks at least three times per week. This group will include 14 participants. This study group will be assigned with basic treatment protocol with aerobic exercises along with 10 minutes of warm up period.

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercises

group b progressive muscle relaxation exercises.

Active Comparator group

Description:

The intervention will be given three days per week for six weeks. Pre and post-treatment readings will be noted. Each total session will last for 45 minutes. The importance of the study will be explained, and consent will be taken from the people before the intervention will be applied. * Breathe in, and tense the first muscle group (hard but not to the point of pain or cramping) for 4 to 10 seconds. * Breathe out, and suddenly and completely relax the muscle group (do not relax it gradually) (20)

Treatment:

Other: Progressive muscle relaxation

Group C. Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was given