Comparison of Pilates and Aerobic Exercises on Pain, Anxiety and QOL in PMS

NCT05697536 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2023-06-15

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Summary

The significance of this study is that it may improve the premenstrual symptoms like pain and anxiety in females with premenstrual syndrome and improve their quality of life. This study may add to the growing body of knowledge that if these two techniques yield comparable outcomes and if one technique is superior to the other, which should be the alternative choice of therapy. Therefore, the study will be done to compare the effects of Pilate exercises and aerobic exercises on pain, anxiety and quality of life in females with premenstrual syndrome.

Conditions

  • Premenstrual Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Pilates training

It consists of patients who will receive pilates exercise training sessions 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Every session will be of 45 minutes. Exercise programs follow the basic principles of pilates method but particularly movements with low and medium difficulty levels will be chosen to adapt the program to the physical capacity of the patients. Protocol will be compromise of 9 modules: postural education, search for neutral position, sitting exercise, antalgic exercise, stretching exercises, proprioceptively improvement exercises and breathing exercises.

OTHER

Aerobic Exercise

It consists of patients who will receive aerobic exercise sessions 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Every session will be of 45 minutes. It will include warm up phase, active phase and

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adeela Arif, Mphil · Riphah International University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-15
Primary Completion
2023-02-25
Completion
2023-03-15

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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