Corestability Training in Overweight Children

Asir John Samuel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity; Children, Only; Child Obesity

Treatments: Other: No Intervention; Other: Corestability training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04315220

U1111-1249-8305 (Other Identifier)

MMDU/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

A total of 52 overweight children aged between eight and sixteen years will be recruited by criterion based purposive sampling to participate in the two groups pretest post test randomized clinical study. Random allocation of the eligible subjects for treatment will be done by the block randomization method with matrix of thirteen rows and four columns (13x4). The subject will be allotted to the group randomly, based on the chit selected by the person other the primary researcher.Once the block is filled, the next row block will be opened. Thus equal distribution of overweight children in the each group will be ensured.

Group A will be receiving actual core stability training (Level 1 - Mat exercises and Level 2 - Swiss Ball exercises) for 6 weeks with a frequency of three sessions per week.Group B will receive no training. Each session will last for 30 minutes of duration. The static and dynamic balance, foot pressure distribution and core strength will be assessed at the baseline and at the end of the treatment sessions.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Children of age 8- 16 years old.
2. Both Boys and Girls.
3. Child with BMI-for-age percentile growth between 85th to less than 95th percentile.

Exclusion criteria

1. Uncooperative participants.
2. Upper or lower limb fracture or injury in recent 6 months.
3. Any musculoskeletal or neurological disorder affecting core strength and balance.
4. Refuse to participate because not able to understand the researcher instructions.
5. Unable to attend the whole sessions during the research period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group (Core stability training (CST))

Experimental group

Description:

Core stability training (CST) consists of two levels: level 1- Mat exercises (includes abdominal muscle contraction, bridging,cat stretch,single leg circle and superman) and level 2- Swiss ball exercises (includes abdominal muscle contraction, bridging and squatting by using therapy ball). There will be three sets of 15 repetitions of each exercises. The first set will consist of 10 seconds hold period, follow by 12 seconds hold in second set and 15 seconds hold in third set respectively. The entire session will last for approximately 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Corestability training

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Will not receive any kind of training.

Treatment:

Other: No Intervention