AUTHOR(S): A Vijayakumar and S Vijay

ABSTRACT:
The most prevalent chronic illness, diabetes mellitus, is a lifelong disorder that impairs the body capacity to use the energy that comes from meals. 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. The selected subjects age, ht and wt range were 42±5 years, 165±8 cm and 74±8 kg correspondingly. The average blood glucose level of selected people observed 120±4 as therefore the selected persons were identified as pre-diabetic persons. Group I was the yoga with varma group, Group II was the yoga with traditional medicine group, and Group III was the yoga with varma and traditional medicine group. They were divided into four equal groups at random, each with ten subjects (n=10). 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 fasting blood sugar test, post parental blood sugar test, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C or A1C) prior to and immediately after the training programme. Before and right after the training program, all four groups' individuals were assessed on criteria variables for significance using an independent "t" test to determine the starting and final mean differences on each variable. The difference between the group's initial and final means was determined using the analysis of covariance. Additionally, the paired mean differences will be determined using Scheffe's post-hoc test. To determine the improvement from the baseline score on specific variables, the magnitude of improvement was also computed. 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 sugar level. The present study concluded that the yoga with varma and traditional medicine group has highly positive impact in the management of blood sugar among middle-aged men.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/yogic.2025.v10.i2g.1821

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