Clinical trial NCT02211001: Pilates, Postural Global Reeducation and Ball Exercises
Official title: Comparative Study of Strenght, Endurance, Flexibility of Muscle Trunk Between the Techniques: Global Postural Reeducation , Pilates and Segmented Dynamic Exercises.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Strength, Muscle
Endurance , Physical
Flexibility
Keywords: Exercise Movement Techniques
Exercise Therapy
Physical Therapy Modalities.
Lead sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-08-07
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the effects of three Exercise Movement Techniques Global Postural Reeducation(RPG), Pilates method and Segmented Dynamic Exercises (SDE) regarding muscular strength and endurance of the trunk, spine mobility and flexibility of the posterior muscle chain.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Men and women
* Healthy young adults who do not practice regular exercise
* The individuals could not have prior experience with the techniques covered in this study
* They could not report a history of pain,disease, neurological or orthopedic surgeries in column , upper or lower limbs, joint laxity, nor have history of injury and hamstring muscles in the lower limbs, neurological disorders, obesity, rheumatic disease, labyrinthitis, deformities of the lower limbs and spine
* Individuals could not make use of drugs that affected his balance and muscle strength
* To be framed the individual should also have restricted movement in the test distance of the third finger to the ground

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals with excessive absences (more than 20% of sessions) or those who missed and could not reset the session in the same week were excluded -Individuals who needed to undergo some surgery or any medical treatment during the duration of the study, or those who give up without completing the minimum time of the intervention

Primary outcomes:
measure: Abdominal Muscle Endurance: Crunch test (repetitions per minute)
timeFrame: Baseline and week eight
measure: Extensors Muscle Endurance:Sorenson test (seconds)
timeFrame: Baseline and week eight
measure: Toe-touch test right/left
timeFrame: Baseline and week eight
measure: Strength of trunk muscles:Peak Torque(Newton metre Nm) flexors and extensor muscles of spine measured in the isokinetic dynamometer BIODEX
timeFrame: Baseline and week eight
measure: Strength of trunk muscles:Muscle Work (Joules) of flexors and extensor muscles of spine measured in the isokinetic dynamometer BIODEX
timeFrame: Baseline and week eight
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: São Paulo
country: Brazil
facility: Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
Study officials:
affiliation: FMUSP
name: Cintia de Freitas, student
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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