Effects of Therapeutic Exercise on Quality of Life

Universidade da Coruña

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Promotion; Quality of Life; Physical Therapy

Treatments: Other: Exercise Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03529864

Experim Fac

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective was to determine the efficacy and safety of a therapeutic exercise program for students. Secondary objectives, determine the prevalence and intensity of musculoskeletal pain (MSP), disability, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL), and satisfaction and perceived improvement with program.

Full description

Methodology: randomized, controlled, open clinical trial. Subjects were recruited from students of Degree of Physiotherapy. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were established. Physical Component Summary (PCS) of SF36, as primary outcomes, was taken to the sample size. Randomization was single-blind. Secondary response variables were measured through the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, Visual Analogue Scale, Oswestry Disability Index, Neck Disability Index, trunk flexor endurance test and finger-floor distance test. An assessment pre and post intervention was performed. This consisted of a therapeutic exercise program based on the stabilization, 9 sessions of 1 hour. For statistical analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk test, Student's t test or test MannWitney, the statistic (X2) chi-square or Fisher's exact test were applied. The level of significance was taken as p <0.05. Information sheet and informed consent model was delivered.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• students taking a course of the Physiotherapy Degree
• having enrolled in October 2014
• having given their informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• not accepting to take part in the study,
• not attending the initial evaluation sessions,
• having any type of cardiovascular, neuromusculoskeletal or systemic diseases that restricted exercise participation.

Trial design

57 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise therapy

Experimental group

Description:

The participants took part in a progressive exercise therapy program for 9 consecutive weeks, once a week. This consisted of group sessions with 8 or 9 students, with each session lasting 60 minutes, supervised by the principal researcher

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Therapy

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The CG did not receive any type of information or instructions apart from the general information sheet on the progress of the study, attached to the informed consent form