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

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Strength; Athletes; Posture; Exercise Movement Techniques

Treatments: Other: core strengthening exercise; Other: Pilates exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06196268

REC/RCR&AHS/23/0436

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 26 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

core strengthening exercise

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: core strengthening exercise

Pilates exercise

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Pilates exercise