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VOL. 10, ISSUE 4 (2025)
Effect of Yoga with Varma Therapy and traditional medicine on cardiac variables among middle-aged diabetes mellitus men
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A Vijayakumar, Dr. S Vijay
Abstract
India is the global center for diabetes. Yoga promotes relaxation, which is also essential for the body's internal organs to work properly. Maintaining a normal blood sugar level by normal blood pressure. The present investigation to find out the effect of yoga with varma therapy and traditional medicine on blood sugar variables among middle-aged men. To achieve this purpose, forty men pre-diabetic parsons were randomly selected from Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India as subjects. The selected subjects age, height and weight range were 42 ± 5 years, 165 ± 8 cm and 74 ± 8 kg respectively. The average blood glucose level of selected subjects observed 120 ± 4 as therefore the selected subjects were identified as pre-diabetic persons. They were randomly split into four equal groups, and all groups contains of ten (n=10) subjects in each, in which they known as group I yoga with varma group, group II yoga with traditional medicine group and group III yoga with varma and traditional medicine group. The group IV would be considered as control group, which did not undergo any specific physical activity or therapy except their regular activities and diet. The consent obtained from the participants, nevertheless, they were free to leave their consent, in case they feel any uneasiness during the tenure of their participation, but there were no withdraw in this study. All the subjects of the four groups were tested by selected dependent variables for the present study such as systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure prior to and immediately after the training programme. All the subjects of the four groups were tested on criterion variables at prior to and immediately after the training program for significance by applying independent ‘t’ test to find the initial and final mean differences on each variable. The analysis of covariance was used to find the difference among the group if the difference on initial and final mean. In addition to this, Scheffe’s post-hoc test will be employed to find the paired mean differences. The magnitude of improvement also calculated to know the improvement from the baseline score on selected variables. The level of confidence is fixed at 0.05, for significance. The result of present study observed that the yoga, varma and traditional medical application had significant contribution for reducing of blood pressure. The present study concluded that the yoga with varma and traditional medicine group has highly positive impact in the management of blood pressure among middle-aged diabetes men.
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Pages:49-53
How to cite this article:
A Vijayakumar, Dr. S Vijay "Effect of Yoga with Varma Therapy and traditional medicine on cardiac variables among middle-aged diabetes mellitus men". International Journal of Yoga, Physiotherapy and Physical Education, Vol 10, Issue 4, 2025, Pages 49-53
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