Pilates Physical Activity in Sickle Cell Disease

N/AUnknownNCT05519852

Cairo University40 enrolled

Overview

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

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Sickle Cell Disease

Interventions

Pilates trainingBEHAVIORAL

the pilates group (20 patients) will be trained 30 minutes of pilates exercise (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

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 55 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Faculty of Physical Therapy Cairo University

Giza, Dokki, Egypt

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