Bhramari Pranayam (BP) has been assumed to have positive effects on improving the quality of voice. The primary objective this study is investigate effect pranayama voice in a dysphonic individual. A patient diagnosed with dysphonia was given therapy, wherein bhramari Pranayama prescribed as direct intervention strategy for two weeks. After weeks it found that had significant improvement acoust...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of slow pace bhastrika pranayama (respiratory rate 6/min) for 5 minutes on heart rate and blood pressure and the effect of the same breathing exercise for the same duration of time (5 minutes) following oral intake of hyoscine-N-butylbromide (Buscopan), a parasympathetic blocker drug. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Heart rate a...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of variations of yogic practices on BMI and flexibility among the obese men. To achieve the purpose of the study 75 men subjects were selected from the VEL Tech. Engg. College, Avadi, Chennai. The selected subjects were equally divided into three groups with 25 subjects in each group. The Experimental group –I (N=25) underwent Suryanamaskar...

The study was carried out to evaluate the immediate effect Bhramari pranayama, a slow breathing exercise for 5 minutes on heart rate and blood pressure. Heart rate and blood pressure of volunteers were recorded. The subject was directed to inhale slowly up to the maximum for about 5 seconds and then to exhale slowly up to the maximum for about 15 sec keeping two thumbs on two external auditory ...

background: aasthma due to causing disruption in the work of breathing and obstruction of the pulmonary tract creates the physical restrictions in the social, emotional and psychological, aspects and performing daily life activities, hence the present study is conducted to determine the impact of a period of selected activity on some spirometry parameters of children from 5 to 10 years old suff...

BACKGROUND Resistive breathing practices are known to improve endurance and performance in competitive swimmers. However, the effect of Pranayama or Yogic Breathing Practices (YBP) in improving respiratory endurance and performance of competitive swimmers remains un-investigated. OBJECTIVES To study effects of yogic breathing practices on lung functions of swimmers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twe...

Pranayama (breathing exercise), one of the yogic techniques can produce different physiological responses in healthy individuals. The responses of Alternate Nostril Breathing (ANB) the Nadisudhi Pranayama on some cardio-respiratory functions were investigated in healthy young adults. The subjects performed ANB exercise (15 minutes everyday in the morning) for four weeks. Cardio-respiratory para...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Pranayama, the art of breath control, is considered to be the heart of yogic exercises. The present study was performed with the aim of evaluating the effect of Pranayama/Alternate Nostril Breathing (A.N.B.) on the parasympathetic nervous system in healthy young adult males. METHODS A comparative account of the expiratioin: inspiration ratio (E:I ratio) and the orthostatic ...