NCT03211559

Clinical Pilates and Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis

Investigating the Effectiveness of Clinical Pilates Exercise When Applied Together With Aerobic Exercise in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Eastern Mediterranean University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise	clinical pilates on mat

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-20
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-20
• First posted: 2017-07-07
• Last updated: 2020-04-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Cyprus