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Shkurta Rrecaj Malaj

Shkurta Rrecaj Malaj

University of Pristina

Shkurta Rrecaj Malaj is a teaching assistant at the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy. She also works as a physical therapist at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo in Prishtina. She has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Physiotherapy and finished her doctoral studies in Kinesiology. Since November 1, 2023, she has been working on her PhD in Physiotherapy at Alma Mater Europaea - ECM in Maribor, Slovenia. In 2011, she completed a course in Hand Rehabilitation titled "Rehabilitation in Hand Surgery" (15 ECTS) at Lund University, Sweden. During the 2023/2024 period, she has been serving as the head of the Commission for Membership, Licensing, and Re-Licensing at the Kosovo Chamber of Physiotherapists.

Kosovo

Abstracts

2024

Outcome of 24 Weeks of Combined Schroth and Pilates Exercises on Cobb Angle, Angle of Trunk Rotation, Chest Expansion, Flexibility and Quality of Life in Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis

This study aimed to quantify the outcomes of combining Schroth and Pilates exercises on the Cobb angle, angle of trunk rotation (ATR), chest expansion, flexibility, and quality of life (QoL) in adolescents with mild and moderate idiopathic scoliosis (IS).
69 adolescents with IS aged 10-17 years, presenting with a Cobb angle of 10-45º enrolled in this study. Treatment, including selected exercises from Schroth and Pilates methods, was performed over 24 weeks and consisted of 2 periods of 2-week treatment regimens performed daily. Each of periods was then followed by the same home program treatment for 10 weeks. Cobb angle, ATR, chest expansion, flexibility, and QoL were assessed pre-treatment, 12, and at 24 weeks.
Improvement (P<0.05) were found in both groups of patients wearing and not wearing a brace for Cobb angle (from 21.97±4.99° to 18.11±6.39°; from 14.19±3.11° to 11.66±2.73°), ATR (from 7.19±1.36° to 5.36±1.66°; from 4.72±1.04° to 3.58±0.94°), chest expansion (from 2.56±0.84 cm to 3.46±0.72 cm; from 2.57±0.87 cm to 3.52±0.72 cm), flexibility (from 9.55±1.95 cm to 14.33±2.40 cm; from 9.82±2.61 cm to 13.98±2.18 cm) and QoL (from 3.50±0.27 to 3.82±0.2; from 3.42±0.24 to 3.78±0.23).
Combined exercises provided benefit on the Cobb angle, ATR, and QoL in adolescents with IS.