Analysis of the Effectiveness of Aquatic Exercise on the Static and Dynamic Balance in Pregnant Women
Condition: Pregnancy; Aquatic Physical Exercise; Balance
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Research about the balance in pregnant women who perform water exercise and those who do not
      engage in any type of sporting activity. The initial objectives are to know if there is an
      improvement in the balance in women who perform aquatic exercise reviewed at the end of
      pregnancy versus those who do not, through the use of a podiatric platform. This experimental
      randomized controlled study (RCT) will be carried out in sports centers and / or public or
      private municipal swimming pools in the south of Galicia The recruitment of passive pregnant
      women (control group) will be carried out in the health center of Pontevedra Virxe da
      Peregrina in the first visit to the midwife in the 10th and 12th week of gestation, while the
      recruitment of the active pregnant women (group experimental 1 and experimental group 2) in
      the teaching centers of the aquatic exercise sessions in the same weeks of gestation. The
      women of the three groups will have a low-risk normoevolutive pregnancy and will be studied
      in the first and third trimesters. The instruments that will be used to obtain data will be
      through an initial questionnaire, a platform and study of stability through the center of
      gravity and base of podiatric support. The plan for analyzing the data will be done through
      SPSS 17.0.
    


Intervention name(s): Aquatic exercise - own monitors program; Aquatic exercise - AIPAP program
Intervention type(s): Other; Other
Intervention description(s): Supervision of own exercises by the Monitor with its own program. Two weekly sessions, both aquatic in small glass and large. The activity carried out will be aerobic; They will work with their own body weight and the lightweight floating material they offer in these pools. Exercises will be carried out that favor flexibility, elasticity, resistance and the strengthening of the muscular ligaments. The intensity of the exercises will be moderate and adapted in each month of gestation. We will eliminate positions and exercises that overload the pregnant woman, avoiding possible injuries and obstetric alterations.
The start of the program will be established in week 10-12 of the pregnancy and the end in week 37-41.
The total number of sessions of the program will be from 25 to 31 (28 sessions of minimum compliance), with a frequency of 2 sessions per week. The duration of these will be 50 minutes and adherence to both experimental groups of ≥28 classes.; Supervised by a midwife with AIPAP method. AIPAP method is divided into 10 sessions of 50 minutes that are repeated cyclically with a total of 120 exercises. The sessions are divided into 5 groups with different objectives: 2 sessions of aerobic capacity improvement, 2 sessions of strength improvement, 2 sessions of pelvic elasticity, 2 coordination sessions and the last 4 sessions of the previous ones.
The beginning of the program will be established in week 10-12 of pregnancy and the end in week 37-41.
The total number of sessions of the program will be 25-31 (28 sessions of minimum compliance), with a frequency of 2 sessions per week. The duration of these will be 50 minutes in both experimental groups. It will be necessary to obtain an adherence to both experimental groups of ≥28 classes.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary purpose: Health Services Research