Clinical trial NCT06196268: Core Strengthening vs Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness and Fatigue Among Female Athletes
Official title: Effects of Core Strengthening and Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness, and Fatigue Among Female Athletes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Exercise Movement Techniques
Muscle Strength
Athletes
Posture
Keywords: core strength
Pilates
Female Athletes
Posture
Fatigue
Lead sponsor: Riphah International University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-01-09
Enrollment: 44
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 26
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: randomized clinical trail
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The study is randomized and single-blinded. Ethical approval is taken from ethical committee of Riphah International University, Lahore. Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be enrolled and allocated in group A \& B through sealed envelope method by Non-probability Convenient random sampling technique. Subjects in Group A will receive Core Strengthening exercises. Group B will receive Pilates exercises.

Detailed description: The objective of the study is to determine the Effects of Core Strengthening and Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness, and Fatigue among Female Athletes. The study is randomized and single-blinded. Ethical approval is taken from ethical committee of Riphah International University, Lahore. Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be enrolled and allocated in group A \& B through sealed envelope method by Non-probability Convenient random sampling technique. Subjects in Group A will receive Core Strengthening exercises. Group B will receive Pilates exercises. York posture rating chart, body awareness scale, and modified fatigue impact scale will be done at the baseline and after the completion of treatment at 6 weeks.

The data will be analyzed by SPSS, version 25. Statistical significance is P=0.05.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Amateur female athletes 18-26 years of age,
* Duration of playing at least 6 months to 1 year,
* BMI \<29 kg/m2, Core training not less than 4 weeks,
* Females having no previous injury that could interfere with the study,
* Females are not currently using nutritional supplements

Exclusion Criteria:

* Smoking,
* sleeping medications,
* complementary medicine use over the last six months,
* Stressful events in the past three months,
* presence of a physical or mental illness, or surgical history,
* Presence of any neurological and vascular disease,
* Participants having another exercise program which can affect the results,
* Participants who are not able to participate in any regular exercise program.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Posture
timeFrame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
measure: Body Awareness
timeFrame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
measure: Fatigue
timeFrame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lahore
country: Pakistan
facility: Pakistan sports board
state: Punjab
Study officials:
affiliation: Study Principal Investigator
name: Eiza Shamshad, DPT
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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