scholarly journals A Comparative Study of the Cardiac Response to Bhastrika: A Yogic Breathing Exercise and the Exercise Tolerance Test

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Kevin Hoffman ◽  
John Clarke

Yogic breathing exercises form a spectrum from simple, diaphragmatic breathing to complex exercises involving breath retention and visualization. Many of the advanced exercises are potentially harmful if not taught and practiced systematically.

Author(s):  
Dr. Jaya Chandra

When you exercise and your muscles work harder, your body uses more oxygen and produces more carbon dioxide. To cope with this extra demand, your breathing has to increase from about 15 times a minute (12 litres of air) when you are resting, up to about 40–60 times a minute (100 litres of air) during exercise. Your circulation also speeds up to take the oxygen to the muscles so that they can keep moving. Any kind of exertion causes some change in vitals. Some amount of fluctuation in vitals after any kind of exertion occurs in every individual and is considered to be normal. But if there is extreme fluctuation in vitals even after mild or moderate form of exertion, it indicates some kind of abnormality or an increased stress on cardiovascular or respiratory system and needs attention.In any case if the vitals fluctuate during any kind of exertion it needs to be stabilized so that its harmful effects can be avoided. For these breathing exercises have been proven to be very beneficial. There are several types of breathing exercises such as deep breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, pursed lip breathing, etc. The need for the study is to compare the effectiveness of Pursed-Lip Breathing & Diaphragmatic Breathing exercise instabilizing the vitals after 6 MWT in young individuals. The objective of this study is to measure the exertion level of the individual, to assess the effect of pursed lip and diaphragmatic breathing exercises on vitals after exertion and also the comparison of both techniques. In the present study we took 60 subjects from saaii college, Kanpur. Method of data collection is random and study design is comparative study with study duration of 4 weeks. Subjects were divided into two equal groups. The paired samples t-test shows significant changes observed i.e., null hypothesis is rejected and alternate hypothesis is accepted and we observed that significant improvement along with effectiveness of pursed lip breathing on stabilizing vitals in overweight individuals.


Author(s):  
Lara LaCaille ◽  
Anna Maria Patino-Fernandez ◽  
Jane Monaco ◽  
Ding Ding ◽  
C. Renn Upchurch Sweeney ◽  
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Cardiology ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark T. Richardson ◽  
Robert G. Holly ◽  
Ezra A. Amsterdam ◽  
M.Q Wang

Author(s):  
Tim Raine ◽  
James Dawson ◽  
Stephan Sanders ◽  
Simon Eccles

Practical proceduresLaboratoriesAchievement of Core Foundation SkillsBlood and injectionsTaking blood (venepuncture)Femoral stabBlood tubesIV cannulationTaking blood in childrenArterial blood gas (ABG)SC/IM injectionsIV injectionsCardiologyECGs and cardiac monitorsExercise tolerance testChemical cardioversion (adenosine)Cardioversion and defibrillation...


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