NCT03201107

Obesity, Sarcopenic, Risk of Falls in Spanish Postmenopausal Women

Effects of a Program of Pilates Exercises on Obesity, Sarcopenic, Risk of Falls and Health in Spanish Postmenopausal Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 107 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Jaén · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To analyze the effects of a Pilates exercise program on obesity, sarcopenic, risk of falls and health in Spanish postmenopausal women.

Detailed description

This is a randomized clinical trial of single-blind with 2 arms (Control group and experimental group), in which a pre-treatment-postest design has been used. The study will define two groups: * A control group (CG) that will not be submitted to treatment, which will be evaluated in the pre and post phase of the study. Participants assigned to this group will receive general advice on the positive effects of regular physical activity and will be given a guide to recommendations for promoting physical activity. * An experimental group (GE) that after an initial evaluation will undergo a physical training program based on Pilates exercises. Once the intervention is finished, it will be submitted to a final evaluation to see if there is a difference or not with the results obtained at the beginning.

Conditions

• Fall Due to Loss of Equilibrium

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pilates	Training based on a basic level Pilates exercise program will be as follows: A duration of weeks with a frequency of 2 sessions a week and with a duration of 55 minutes each. The exercises to be performed will be divided into three distinct phases: warm-up, lasting 15 minutes; Main part with a duration of 30 minutes and the return to calm, based mostly on stretching and with a duration of 10 minutes. The repetitions of the exercises will be between 5 and 10 according to the difficulty.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-11-01
• Completion: 2018-02-27
• First posted: 2017-06-28
• Last updated: 2021-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain