AUTHOR(S): Pankaj Phogat

ABSTRACT:
Due to the rapidly alterations in lifestyle asthma a respiratory deficiency becomes a great health issue in present scenario. With this point of view the present study has been designed to investigate the effects of pranayama a yogic exercise related to respiration was developed for the asthma patients. For accomplish the present research work 30 samples were randomly selected as subjects. Out of total sample 15 subjects were considered as experimental group which attained the training of yogic exercise and 15 respondents were considered as control group who did not attained any training. A total 3 months training were provided to the patients of experimental group while no training was given to the control group. Vital capacity is measured as a functional capacity of respiration of asthmatic patients and the data was taken in three phase such as pretest, posttest after 1 month, posttest after 2 months, and finally posttest after 3 months. To find out the significance effects of training within given time phase and groups repeated measure ANOVA with covariate was used as a statistical method. The Age of the subjects was ranged from 45 to 60 years respectively. The level of Alpha was set at 0.05 respectively.

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