NCT02278731

Exercise Protocols in Postural Balance Of Elderly Women

EFFECTS OF TWO EXERCISE PROTOCOLS IN POSTURAL BALANCE OF ELDERLY WOMEN

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Estadual do PiauÍ · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 60 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine and compare the effects of a training program with Pilates and Facilitation Neuromuscular Proprioceptive on balance and function in elderly women.

Detailed description

Older women living in Teresina and participating in a local church project called "Pão dos Pobres" were randomly divided into three groups: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNFG), Pilates (PG) and Control(CG). Intervention: A training program (50 minutes session) was performed with the PNFG and the PG, 3 times a week, for 4 weeks. The elderly in CG suffered no intervention and continued with their daily activities. Main Outcome Measures: The stabilometric parameters, Berg Balance Scale score, functional reach test and Timed Up and Go test (TUG test) were measured before and one month after, in all participants.

Conditions

• Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	training program	Participants were randomly allocated to 1 of 3 groups: Pilates group (n=20), which underwent one-month (three times per week) training program with the Pilates method; PNF group (n=20), that underwent one-month (three times per week) training program using the PNF method; and Control group (n=18), that received no intervention during that one month and continued with their daily activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2014-05-01
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2014-10-30
• Last updated: 2014-10-30