How Does Basic Body Awareness Therapy Effect Pain Coping Strategies in Postmenopausal Women?

Therapeutic exercise sessions will begin with a short educational talk that provides information on proper body mechanics, and the benefits of exercise, followed by simple warm-ups and three different stretching and five different strengthening exercises that emphasize hip, abdominal, and back muscles. The frequency of repetitions of each stretching and strength exercise will be 10 with a holding time of 10 sec. Each set of strengthening exercises will be followed by a different set of stretching exercises. Sessions will end with a short unguided period of deep slow breathing.

This group will receive BBAT as well as therapeutic exercises. Therapeutic exercises will include strengthening, stretching, and stabilization exercises. BBAT will include postural alignment, breathing, and cognitive exercises.