NCT05697536

Comparison of Pilates and Aerobic Exercises on Pain, Anxiety and QOL in PMS

Comparison of Pilates and Aerobic Exercises on Pain, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Premenstrual Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The significance of this study is that it may improve the premenstrual symptoms like pain and anxiety in females with premenstrual syndrome and improve their quality of life. This study may add to the growing body of knowledge that if these two techniques yield comparable outcomes and if one technique is superior to the other, which should be the alternative choice of therapy. Therefore, the study will be done to compare the effects of Pilate exercises and aerobic exercises on pain, anxiety and quality of life in females with premenstrual syndrome.

Conditions

• Premenstrual Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pilates training	It consists of patients who will receive pilates exercise training sessions 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Every session will be of 45 minutes. Exercise programs follow the basic principles of pilates method but particularly movements with low and medium difficulty levels will be chosen to adapt the program to the physical capacity of the patients. Protocol will be compromise of 9 modules: postural education, search for neutral position, sitting exercise, antalgic exercise, stretching exercises, proprioceptively improvement exercises and breathing exercises.
OTHER	Aerobic Exercise	It consists of patients who will receive aerobic exercise sessions 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Every session will be of 45 minutes. It will include warm up phase, active phase and

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-15
• Primary completion: 2023-02-25
• Completion: 2023-03-15
• First posted: 2023-01-26
• Last updated: 2023-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan