Background: Over ages; bronchial asthma and its adverse physiological, psychological impacts upon varied group of age, people, and health remains a searchable quest in its depth. Behaviour modification as an emerging outlook of Physical therapy helps to exhibit positive changes in this broad spectrum of asthma. This study aimed to identify the possible potential factors to improve chest expansion by analysing the effect of buteyko breathing and relaxed postures. Methods: Experimental study design; 20 patients of the age group 17-19 years were selected using simple random sampling method. Group A; consisting 10 patients were advocated buteyko relaxation training. Group B; consisting of 10 patients were advocated relaxed postures along with the conventional asthma management. Stop watch, nose clip, inch tape, pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire [PAQLQ] were used as the operational tools. Paired and Unpaired "t" testing was used to analyze the pre-test and the post-test values after a period of 6 months. Results: Analysis of the peak expiratory flow rate and the quality of life over Group "A" and Group "B" at 0.05% level of significance showed positive results for Group "A" when compared with the 't' value. Conclusion: The findings support the multidimensional positive effects of behavior modification over the physiological and psychological parameters that lead to the onset of bronchial asthma.
Complementary therapies refer to a wide range of health interventions originating from different cultures across thousands of years of history. They take a holistic approach to patient care where physical, psychological, social and spiritual factors are taken into account.
Background: Stroke is the leading cause of physical dysfunction. It is imperative to identify the current level of physical activities of stroke patients to plan for effective rehabilitation strategies. Aim of the study was to evaluate the severity of performance impairment of stroke patients using Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Total motor score. Methods: Thirty-seven stroke patients were selected. The performance impairment was evaluated by FMA motor score. Both upper limb (UL) and lower limb (LL) motor function was evaluated. The maximum UL score was 66 and LL score was 34. The relationship of age and duration of condition with FMA motor score was studied by Pearson’s correlation coefficients. The difference in the gender and type of stroke with the FMA motor score was analysed by MannWhitney ‘U’ test. Result: The mean FMA total score was 43.81 ± 7.12. The relationship between age and total motor score was not significant with, r = 0.004, p = 0.980. There was no significant relationship between duration of the condition and motor recovery, r = 0.46, p = 0.304 > 0.05. The difference in the gender (z = 0.55, p = 0.579) and type of stroke (z = 0.06, p = 0.956) was not significant with the total motor score. Conclusion: It is concluded that stroke patients have severe performance impairment evaluated by FMA and Total motor score. Motor recovery was not dependent on the age and gender of patients
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