Core Strengthening vs Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness and Fatigue Among Female Athletes

N/ACompletedNCT06196268

Riphah International University44 enrolled

Overview

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.

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Exercise Movement Techniques

Interventions

core strengthening exerciseOTHER

CSE will constitute of abdominal hollowing, Side Bridge, supine extension bridge, straight leg rise from prone, alternate arm and leg raise from quadruped, and prone bridge

Pilates exerciseOTHER

Pilates includes hundreds, one leg stretch, shoulder bridge, hip twist, scissors, side kicks

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 26 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Posture

posture of the female athlete will be measured by New York posture rating chart for each of 13 body alignment segments

Time frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional

Body Awareness

Body Awareness Questionnaire will be used to measure the body awareness of female athlete

Time frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional

Fatigue

Modified fatigue impact scale instrument provides an assessment of the effects of fatigue with scoring from 36 in 21 items

Time frame: pre and 6 weeks post interventional

Core Strengthening vs Pilates Exercises on Posture, Body Awareness and Fatigue Among Female Athletes

Overview

Conditions

Interventions

Eligibility

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Outcomes

Primary Outcomes