Effectiveness of Tai Chi Exercise Program in Scleroderma Patients

Pamukkale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tai Chi

Treatments: Other: Tai Chi

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04214925

60116787-020 / 20653

Details and patient eligibility

About

Because of multiple system involvement, patients with Scleroderma have complaints such as fatigue, sleep disturbances, functional limitations, skin deformations, pain, swollen hands and joint pain. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Tai Chi exercise program on trunk endurance, balance, sleep, fatigue, anxiety and depression in patients with scleroderma.

Full description

In the study, which will be planned as a randomized controlled parallel group, the effects of Tai Chi in SS patients are compared with the home exercise group. Evaluations before and after the treatment will make by a physiotherapist. Training of Tai Chi will supervised by an experienced and certified physiotherapist.

Lateral Bridge Test , Berg Balance Scale, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index , Fatigue Severity Scale and Fatigue Impact Scale , Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale will be used evaluation before and after training.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have been diagnosed with scleroderma,
• have been sedentary (have not routinely participated in exercise activities during the past 3 months)
• have been using a fixed dose of medication for at least 6 months
• no communication problems
• having stable disease

Exclusion criteria

• a diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension
• a history of active infection, cardiac involvement, psychiatric disorder, a history of active myositis, renal failure, metastatic cancer, pregnancy
• Data of the participant whose changes were made during the study are not included in this study and participation is terminated.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Group of Tai Chi intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Tai Chi exercise program will create by selecting the first-basic 10 forms from 24 short forms of Yang style. The forms' name: Beginning, Parting the Horse's Mane, Stork Spreading Its Wings, Brushing Your Knees and Stepping, Playing The Pipes, Fending Off the Monkey, Grasping the Sparrow's Tail Left, Grasping the Sparrow's Tail Right, Simple Whip, Moving Hands Like Clouds-Conclusion. All forms will be completed at 10 weeks. Each session will take 1 hour (15 min for warming up exercises, 30 min of Tai Chi forms, and 15 min for cooling down exercises). The 14 patients of SS in this group will be divided into two groups of 7.

Treatment:

Other: Tai Chi

Group of home exercises

Other group

Description:

The home exercise group will receive a one-hour home program, 2 days a week. The first and last 15 minutes of the exercise program will consist of warm-up and cooling- down exercises. After warm-up exercises, stretching for shoulder, hamstring and erector spinae muscles, strengthening exercises for abdominal and back muscles will be performed 10 times each for 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Tai Chi