The Effectiveness of Pranayama on Blood Pressure of Hypertensive Patients

The effectiveness of Pranayama on Blood Pressure of Hypertensive Patients Ms. Ranjana Ganpat Ttryambake Assistant professor, BVDU College of Nursing, Pune, India ranjana. tryambake@gmail. com Pranayama is breathe control, although breathing is one of our involuntary bodily functions, we can also control the breath to some extent. Hypertensive patient is, who having persistent elevation of Systolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg and diastolic above 90 mmHg more than two time. Purpose to assess effectiveness of pranayama on blood pressure among hypertensive patient, Pune, India Objectives - To measure the blood pressure of hypertensive patients before and after Pranayama, to assess the related sign and symptoms of hypertensive patients before and after Pranayama, to correlate the effect of pranayama with selected demographic variables. Methods This was a quasi experimental study of 60 hypertensive patients of selected areas of Pune during the academic year of 2014-15. The assessment of blood pressure, pulse rate and sign and symptoms were done from the hypertensive patients. A selected intervention includes pranayama was given to the patients daily early morning evening thiry minutes for 10 days, post test taken after 10th day. Results-The blood pressure level before and after Pranayama shows highly significant difference between blood pressure from day 1, day 8, day 9 and day 10 i. e. systolic blood pressure from 154.53 mmHg (SD 7.53) to 133.2 mmHg (SD 6.14) and diastolic blood pressure from 93.8 mmHg (SD 4.99) to 82.26 mmHg (SD 5.24). Paired t-test for blood pressure before and after Pranayama shows ** p value 0.000000034, which very less than 0.01, therefore the effect of Pranayama on blood pressure of hypertensive samples is highly significant. The mean blood pressure on day 1 and day 10 shows the difference in systolic blood pressure was 21.33 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure was 11.54 mmHg. The severity of blood pressure before and after Pranayama was seen. Before Pranayama moderate blood pressure is 71.66 %, mild is 19.99 % and severe 8.33 % and after Pranayama mild blood pressure is 54.99 %, normal 36.66 % and moderate is 4.99 %. The severity of blood pressure before and after Pranayama in reduction of blood pressure. The mean pulse rate on day 1 and day 10 shows the difference in pulse rate 5.06/min. it also shows there is significant difference on headache, giddiness and sweating before and after Pranayama from day 1 to day 10. Therefore this study shows that there is decrease in the blood pressure level and pulse rate and symptoms from severe to normal after Pranayama. Conclusion The current interventions Pranayama will assist in maintaining normal blood pressure among hypertensive patient and help to reduce the complications of hypertension.