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NCT Number: NCT05834283

Aerobic vs Core Stability Exercise Training Program in Women With Endometriosis

To compare the effects of aerobic and core stability exercise training program on pain, sleep and quality of life in women with endometriosis.

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Key information

Conditions

Endometriosis Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Genital Diseases Genital Diseases, Female Urogenital Diseases

Age range

24 year–45 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Family Health Hospital

Lahore, Punjab Province, 540000, Pakistan

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 24-45
  • Diagnosed patients with endometriosis
  • Pain lasting more than 6 months
  • Chronic pelvic pain
  • Infertility
  • Patients with dysmenorrhea.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with the tubo- ovarian abscess.
  • Concomitment use of hormonal drugs.
  • Any malignancy
  • Impaired sensation..
  • Patients with Gynecological hemorrhage

Treatment and study plan

aerobic exercises

Other

This group will be received aerobic exercises 3 sessions per week for 8 weeks. Warm up phase: in which each participant will walk at 80 m/min at 0.0% grade for 5 mint.

Active phase: treadmill speed will be increased to 147 m/min and grade will be increased gradually untill reached 25% grade for 20 mint.

Cool down phase: in which the treadmil speed and grade will be decreased to 2.0miles/h and 0.0% grade during a cool down period consisted of 5 mint.

Core Stability Exercises

Other

This group will be received core stability exercises 3 sessions per week for 8 weeks.

All participants in both groups will be evaluated before and after the treatment programs.

Lie on your back and place your feet on a wall so that your knees and hips are bent at 90 degrees angles. Tighten your abdominal muscles.

Raise your head and shoulders off the floor. Return to the start position and repeat.

Primary outcomes

  1. Numeric pain rating scale for pain

    Time frame: 8 weeks

    Numerical pain rating scale are the simplest and most commonly used scales. A tool used to help person rate the intensity of pain. The patients pick (verbal version) or draws a circle around (written version) the number that best describes the pain dimensions, usually intensity. The numeric pain rating scale for pain is a straight line with one end meaning no pain and the other end meaning worst pain

  2. Endometriosis health profile questionnaire (EHP 30) for quality of life.

    Time frame: 8 weeks

    Endometriosis health profile questionnaire (EHP 30) is to evaluate the suitably self- report health status. It involves 30 items to identify the health status of patients with endometriosis. A core questionnaire which consists of five scales (pain, control and powerlessness, emotional well-being support and self-image)

  3. Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) for sleep.

    Time frame: 8 weeks

    Pitts burgh sleep quality index (PSQI) is a self- rated questionnaire which asses the sleep quality and disturbance over a one-month time interval. It differentiates poor from good sleep quality. The PSQI is intended to be a standardized sleep questionnaire for clinicians and researchers to use with ease and is used for multiple populations. Clinical studies have found the PSQI to be reliable and valid in assessment of sleep problems to some degree

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Riphah International University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Comparative Effects of Aerobic and Core Stability Exercise Training Program on Pain, Sleep and Quality of Life in Women With Endometriosis.

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Apr 28, 2023
Registry last updated
Apr 28, 2023

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