NCT05006690

Telerehabilitation and Face-to-Face Clinical Pilates-Based Exercise in Individuals With Axial Spondyloarthritis

Completed NA Last updated 24 August 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Clinical Pilates-Based Exercise Training in Axial Spondyloarthritis in 50 participants. Completed in 19 August 2025.

Timeline

18 December 2023

Primary endpoint
19 August 2025

19 August 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hacettepe University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	50
Start date	18 December 2023
Primary completion	19 August 2025
Estimated completion	19 August 2025
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Clinical Pilates-Based Exercise Training

Conditions studied

• Axial Spondyloarthritis — all drugs for Axial Spondyloarthritis →
• Ankylosing Spondylitis — all drugs for Ankylosing Spondylitis →

Sponsor

Hacettepe University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Axial Spondyloarthritis or Ankylosing Spondylitis. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Spondyloarthritis (SpA) refers to a group of rheumatic diseases that share common clinical, genetic and imaging features. They are divided into two: axial (axSpA) and peripheral. In addition to the pain caused by sacroiliitis and spondylitis, which are the main complaints, patients often experience joint stiffness, fatigue, mood disturbances and various degrees of functional limitations, and the quality of life of individuals can be significantly affected. Although there is consensus about the positive effects of exercise in AxSpA, no exercise regimen has been shown to be superior to another. Another exercise model whose effectiveness has been researched in recent years is "clinical pilates exercises". It is a version of the Pilates exercises created by Joseph Pilates, modified by physiotherapists to emphasize the most valuable components in the diagnosis and management of injuries and to increase their safety. Clinical Pilates exercises are an exercise model based on spinal stabilization principles. In addition, it has the principles of awareness, balance, breathing, concentration, centering, control, efficiency, flow, sensitivity, isolation and harmony. There are many studies investigating the effects of these exercises in the field of rehabilitation and highlighting improvements in different diseases, including ankylosing spondylitis, which is considered the prototype of axSpA. No study has been found examining exercise training applied via telerehabilitation to individuals with AxSpA and its effects. The aim of this study is to compare the effects of telerehabilitation and face-to-face clinical pilates-based exercise training on individuals with axial spondyloarthritis. Volunteers who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly divided into 'telerehabilitation training group' and 'face-to-face training group' using the sealed envelope method. The individualized rehabilitation program will be applied to each group for 1 hour, 3 days a week, for 8 weeks. Disease-specific performance measurements and patient-reported scales that evaluate patients' disease activity, functionality, mood, quality of life, fear-avoidance, levels and perceptions of the disease will be applied to individuals three times in total: at the beginning, after the 8-week rehabilitation program and 6 months after the second evaluation.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.