Effect of Mat Pilates Training on Women After Menopause

Federal University of Uberlandia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Other: Hypertensive group; Other: Normotensive group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03626792

68408116.9.0000.5152

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to verify the chronic effect of Mat Pilates exercise on climacteric symptoms, ambulatory blood pressure responses, lipid and glucose profile and pro and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant markers in postmenopausal normotensive and hypertensive women. All volunteers received the same intervention.

Full description

The Pilates program was performed three times a week for 12 weeks. Initially a familiarization was made regarding the principles of the method. All volunteers underwent 24-hour blood pressure assessment using ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) and venous blood samples were collected from fasting, saliva and questionnaires before and after the Pilates training period.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women between the ages of 40 and 70;
• Be post menopausal (amenorrhea for at least 12 months);
• Medical release to perform physical activities.
• Do not present physical problems or cardiovascular complications that prevent the performance of physical exercises;

Exclusion criteria

• To present a history of stroke or acute myocardial infarction;
• Smoking;
• Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus.
• Present renal pathologies.
• Use medications that interfere with lipid metabolism;
• Use of antihypertensive drugs (except for the hypertensive group);
• Use hormone replacement therapies;
• Present gastrointestinal conditions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Hypertensive group

Other group

Description:

The Mat Pilates session was held lasting 50 minutes of exercises with the first 5 minutes heating and in each exercise performing 10 repetitions with 45 seconds of rest between one exercise and another. For practice, are used only mats, and alternative devices such as the Swiss ball and the flexible ring, as well as body weight and the force of gravity as resistance factors and Borg's subjective perception of effort scale for intensity parameters. The 20 exercises were chosen through the classic exercises thus classified by the creator of the Joseph Pilates method.During the sessions, volunteers were instructed on correct breathing without performing the valsalva maneuver.

Treatment:

Other: Hypertensive group

Normotensive group

Other group

Description:

The Mat Pilates session was held lasting 50 minutes of exercises with the first 5 minutes heating and in each exercise performing 10 repetitions with 45 seconds of rest between one exercise and another. For practice, are used only mats, and alternative devices such as the Swiss ball and the flexible ring, as well as body weight and the force of gravity as resistance factors and Borg's subjective perception of effort scale for intensity parameters. The 20 exercises were chosen through the classic exercises thus classified by the creator of the Joseph Pilates method.During the sessions, volunteers were instructed on correct breathing without performing the valsalva maneuver.

Treatment:

Other: Normotensive group