Pilates Physical Activity in Sickle Cell Disease

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sickle Cell Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Pilates training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05519852

P.T.REC/012/003820

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a life-threatening hereditary hemoglobinopathy characterized by hemoglobin (Hb) polymerization that affects many people worldwide.Reduced physical capacity is common in people with SCA. Pilates is a form of physical activity that recently used in clinicial practice

Full description

SCA patients (40 patients) with ages more than 18 years will join randomly the pilates group (20 patients) or control non exercised group (20 patients). Pilates will be trained 30 minutes (before it there will be warm up period and after it there will be cooldown period , each will be 5 minutes). the pilates will be repeated five sessions per the week for 3 months

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• sedentary sickle disease patients from both both sexes in medical stable condition

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac complaints, pregnant women, patients who smoke or drink alchols

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Pilates group

Experimental group

Description:

this pilates group (20 patients) will be trained 30 minutes of pilates (before it there will be warm up period and after it there will be cooldown period , each will be 5 minutes). the pilates will be repeated five sessions per the week for 3 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pilates training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients will not receive training (20 patients)