Ab. No. 114 Effects of Russian Current Stimulation on Blood Glucose in Non-Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Individuals: A Single Group Experimental Study

Abstract

Introduction: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of Russian Current Stimulation (RCS) in pre and post Blood glucose level along with some other parameters in non-diabetic individuals. Several studies were conducted in the management of type 2 Diabetes mellitus (DM) which shows exercise as the main part of treatment but there was urgent need to conduct study on that group of people who do not perform exercise because of old age and certain physical problems. The current work is designed to establish a safety protocol and to explore the use of RCS as an alternate to exercise. Methods: Two equal group of 30 non-diabetic individual with the age range 45-75 years were selected for phase first and phase second of study to investigate. Pre and Post single-group, experimental study was conducted in two phases. In phase first, RCS for 10-minutes on the quadriceps muscle and in phase second RCS for 20-minutes on quadriceps and gluteus maximus muscles were given. Fingertip samples for Blood glucose pre and post stimulation were measured. Heart rate, Respiratory rate, Blood pressure, and Body temperature were measured by using standard clinical methods. The results was analysed using SPSS 19 version. The significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) was considered for the study. Results: Statistically significant difference (p ≤ 0.05) were observed in the parameters of blood glucose, respiratory rate, heart rate and non-significant differences (p ≥ 0.05) was observed in the parameters of oral temperature, systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Conclusion: The result shows that RCS would have beneficial effects on the reduction of blood glucose. Implication: RCS could be suggested as the contributory treatment in management of type-2 diabetes as an alternate to exercise.