Study to compare the effectiveness of inspiratory muscle training versus alternative nostril yoga breathing on blood pressure, resting heart rate and quality of life in essential hypertension

Abstract

Background: Great wellbeing is a pre-essential of human useful and improvement measure. Raised BP stays the main source of death around the world, representing 10.4 million passings each year. Many research has demonstrated the positive effects of inspiratory muscle exercise (IME) on cardiac autonomic function, indicated by reduced sympathetic modulation and increased vagal modulation in young smokers, as well as hypertensive and heart failure patients. Alternate nostril yoga breathing (ANYB) is one of the effective breathing techniques which involve breathing through one nostril at a time while closing the other nostril manually. The normal nasal cycle consists of alternating phases of congestion and decongestion of nasal tissue based on the predominance of parasympathetic or sympathetic tone in the autonomic nervous system. Method: Ethical approval was obtained from the SAFE SEARCH INDEPENDENT ETHICS COMMITTEE. N=30 Essential Hypertensive patients age between 35 to 55, both male and female included in this pilot study and the further study continues with more sample. After taking consent the patients were divided randomly into two groups. Group A Inspiratory muscle training (15) and Group B (15) Alternative nostril yoga breathing. Both groups received treatment for 4 weeks and 5 days/week.