The Impact of Clinical Pilates Exercises on Tension-Type Headaches: A Case Series

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Reviewer's report

Title: The impact of Clinical Pilates exercises on Tension-type Head-aches: a case series

Reviewer's report: 

Leite and colleagues examined the impact of Clinical Pilates exercises on Tension-type Head-aches through a case series.

This is an interesting paper that explores a few studied theme; however, a some issues need to be addressed. 

 

Title

Nothing to report.

 

Abstract

The sentence is not clear. (Page ; line 14 and 15).

Should be interesting to refer it was a group class intervention.

Keywords: shouldn’t “Pilates” be on the keywords 

 

Introduction 

Well written and literature based.

The aim of this study should refer that it is made in a case series methodology.

 

Materials and Methods 

Were all instruments validated for the Portuguese population?

How was the Pilates exercise selection made?

 

Results 

Is table 2 really needed? This information seem to be repeated in the text below.

I have some problems in understanding table 3. Check also the English language.

Do you think it could be useful to gather all the information in a single table that can make it easier for readers to understand all the characteristics and changes produced by the intervention

What do you mean by “average percentage” in figure 1?

 

Discussion 

Please the differences between class group versus individual sessions; The exercise selection was important in the effect?

Are 4 sessions enough to produce short-term changes in the participants?

Is the “impact” produced by Exercise or Pilates? This sometimes is not clear during the discussion

 

Conclusion

The last sentence is not clear. Please try to be more concise in the conclusions obtained with the study.

Level of interest: An article of interest

Quality of written English: Good

 

 Declaration of competing interests: no competing interests 

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewer for reading our paper carefully. The valuable comments and questions have allowed us to significantly improve our manuscript.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Overall, the article is quite well written. However, referring to such a common problem, I would expect a much larger number of respondents, more statistical data. I lack a description of the possible mechanisms of the influence of exercises on the described and studied problem. I believe that the article needs more attention and more people surveyed.

Author Response

We would like to thank the reviewer for reading our paper carefully. The valuable comments and questions have allowed us to significantly improve our manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx