1- Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of physical education and sport sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University , forough_rahmati2012@yahoo.com
2- Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of physical education and sport sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University
Abstract: (12497 Views)
Nowadays, ailments which are known as specific diseases make the society we live in suffer, and scientific researches pay much attention to the effect of sport and physical activity on these diseases and introduce sports as treatment for them. The purpose of this study was to check the effect of an aerobic training course on social-physical anxiety in women with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The study population consisted of all inactive women reported by MS community of Tehran in 2012. Of them, 24 ones have been chosen at random (age 32±11 years old) and selected in two groups of control and experimental at random. The social-physical anxiety scale (SPAS) was used to measure the social-physical anxiety in these patients. The findings indicated a noticeable decrease in the amount of social-physical anxiety in women with MS after 8 weeks of aerobic training (P<0.001). Eventually, we can conclude that aerobic training are effective on decreasing the social-physical anxiety of patients suffering from MS, and it can, by its nature, decrease the social-physical anxiety in these people and promote health and participation in sports activities.
Type of Study:
Original Article |
Subject:
Exercise, Training and Health Received: 2014/02/26 | Accepted: 2014/04/30
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