Clinical Pilates and Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis

NCT ID: NCT03211559

Last Updated: 2020-04-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 36 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-12-20
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-20

Brief Summary

The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of Clinical Pilates Exercises on functional status and quality of life when applied together with aerobic exercise in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

Detailed Description

According to the power analyzes 32 patients, who were diagnosed as Ankylosing spondylitis, will be taken to the study. In the first session their spinal mobility, flexibility, dynamic and static balance, back and lower limb muscle strength, pulmonary functions and pulmonary muscle strength, disease activity level, fatigue level, functional exercise capacity will be assessed to determine functional status by a physiotherapist. Also their quality of life and factors affecting the quality will be assessed. Then the patients will be divided into two exercise groups randomly. Patients in the first group will only do aerobic exercise, patients in the second group will do clinical pilates additional to the aerobic exercise which has the same protocol with the first group. Patients will do the exercise for 8 weeks, 3 times a day individually with a physiotherapist . At the end of the 8 weeks they will be assessed with the same tests again.

Conditions

Exercise; Ankylosing Spondylitis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

AEROBİC EXERCİSE (walking on treadmill)

Patients walked on treadmill for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week,30-40 minutes each.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

clinical pilates on mat

Aerobic Exercise+Clinical Pilates

Patients walked on treamill for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week, 30-40 minutes each. Additionally they did clinical pilates exercise for 8 weeks, 3 days in a week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

clinical pilates on mat

Interventions

Exercise

clinical pilates on mat

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Man and woman diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis .

Exclusion Criteria

• Any neurological or muscle diseases
• Inability to continuously attend the exercise program
• Visual, hearing or mental problems that could prevent communication
• Using mobility aids
• Pregnancy
• Malignity
• Having a surgery recently
• Doing exercise regularly in last 3 months.
• Having a cardiopulmonary problem which is not under control.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Eastern Mediterranean University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sevim Öksüz

Senior Instructor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Oksuz

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Eastern Mediterranean University

Locations

Eastern Mediterranen University

Famagusta, , Cyprus

Countries

Cyprus

Other Identifiers

GO 16/147

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id