The Effect of 8 Weeks Combined Protocol sole Massage and Walking on Textured Surfaceon Control Posture, Falling and Quality of Life in Women Diabetic Neuropathy

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus will be appear with a high level of blood glucose or deficiency in insulin secretion. Exercise has a clear effect on metabolism, that it can be valuable for this patients. The purpose of this study was study the effect of 8 weeks combined protocol sole massage and walking on textured surface in women who suffer diabetic neuropathy. Materials and methods: This study was done in two groups with pretest and posttest. The patients were 30 person who suffered of diabetic neuropathy and they had some clinical treatment in Najafanabad city 15 patients take part in experimental group and 15 patients take part in control group. The experimental group did the exercises (8 weeks, each week 3 session, each session 1 hours). SF-36 questionnaire had been used to determine the quality of life also, to determine the staticand dynamic balance, we had used modified stork test and Y test. Data were analyzed by repeated measure ANOVA. (P 0/05). Results: In experimental group the quality of life and static and dynamic balance has been significantly improve (P 0/05).Conclusion: The finding in this study showed that, combined protocol sole massage and walking on textured surface could be useful and caused the improvement in quality of life and static and dynamic balance, so combined protocol sole massage and walking on textured surface can be used as a useful method to reduce the risk factors of diabetes and improve the quality of life in clinical treatments.