Sickle Cell Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a life-threatening hereditary hemoglobinopathy characterized by hemoglobin (Hb) polymerization that affects many people worldwide.Reduced physical capacity is common in people with SCA. Pilates is a form of physical activity that recently used in clinicial practice
Detailed description
SCA patients (40 patients) with ages more than 18 years will join randomly the pilates group (20 patients) or control non exercised group (20 patients). Pilates will be trained 30 minutes (before it there will be warm up period and after it there will be cooldown period , each will be 5 minutes). the pilates will be repeated five sessions per the week for 3 months
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPilates training
the pilates group (20 patients) will be trained 30 minutes of pilates exercise (before it there will be warm up period and after it there will be cooldown period , each will be 5 minutes). the pilates will be repeated five sessions per the week for 3 months
Sponsors
Cairo University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* sedentary sickle disease patients from both both sexes in medical stable condition
Exclusion criteria
* cardiac complaints, pregnant women, patients who smoke or drink alchols
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it assess sleep quality |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| quadriceps strength | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it will assess the muscular strength of dominant quadriceps |
| hand grip strength | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it will assess the muscular strength of dominant hand grip |
| six minutes walking distance | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it will assess physical capacity |
| mental component summary of short-form-36 questionnaire | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it will assess mental health |
| beck depression inventory | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it is a questionnaire assessing depression |
| physical component summary of short-form-36 questionnaire | It will be measured after 12 weeks | it will assess physical health |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Primary ContactAli Ismail, lecturer
Backup ContactAli Ismail, Lecturer
Outcome results
None listed