Immediate effect of basic body awareness therapy on heart rate variability

Mantovani, Alessandra Madia; Fregonesi, Cristina Elena Prado Teles; Lorençoni, Roselene Modolo Regueiro; Savian, Nathália Ulices; Palma, Mariana Romanholi; Salgado, Afonso Shiguemi Inoue; Oliveira, Luís Vicente Franco de; Parreira, Rodolfo Borges

doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2015.10.003

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“…This supports results from the exercise literature that an internal attention focus that guides attention to body movements and internal bodily processes associated with the exercise is not always beneficial for mental and physical performance compared to exercising without an instructed attentional focus, especially in novices ( Brick et al, 2014 ). Previous studies reporting positive effects of yoga on body awareness have compared groups of yoga professionals and regular yoga practitioners against yoga naive control groups and mainly used self-report psychological scales and questionnaires ( Mantovani et al, 2016 ; Gibson, 2019 ).…”

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Can Yoga Boost Access to the Bodily and Emotional Self? Changes in Heart Rate Variability and in Affective Evaluation Before, During and After a Single Session of Yoga Exercise With and Without Instructions of Controlled Breathing and Mindful Body Awareness in Young Healthy Women

Herbert

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Exercise is indispensable for a healthy lifestyle. Yoga exercise can have positive effects on well-being and on cardiac autonomic activity making it an ideal intervention for improving mind-body interactions and resilience to physical and mental stressors. Emotions trigger especially strong bodily and affective-cognitive responses because of their social relevance for the self and their biological relevance of mobilizing the organism for action. This study investigates whether changes in emotion processing related to self-other referential processing and changes in cardiac autonomic activity, reflected by heart rate variability (HRV), occur immediately after already a single session of yoga exercise when yoga postures are practiced with or without breathing- and mindful body awareness instructions. Women, all university students (N = 34, final sample: n = 30, n = 25 naïve to yoga practice) were randomly assigned to two experimental groups who performed the same yoga exercises with or without controlled breathing and mindfulness instructions. Emotional, self-other referential processing, awareness of bodily signals and HRV indicators were investigated before and after the exercise using standardized experimental tasks, standardized questionnaires, and mobile recording devices. Exercising for 30 minutes changed cardiac activity significantly. HRV measures showed adaptability of cardiac activity during the exercise as well as during the affective task post- to pre-exercise. Exercising with breathing instructions and mindful body awareness had no superior effects on cardiac, particularly parasympathetic activity, compared to practicing the same movements without such explicit instructions. Self-referential processing did not change; however, participants were faster and more accurate in their affective judgments of emotional stimuli [regardless of their reference (self/other)], and showed better awareness of bodily signals after compared to before the exercise session. The results support immediate, adaptive effects of yoga exercise on cardiac and affective-cognitive processing in an all-female healthy sample. Therefore, yoga exercise could be recommended as a physical activity for boosting cardiac and emotional resilience in this target group.

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Can Yoga Boost Access to the Bodily and Emotional Self? Changes in Heart Rate Variability and in Affective Evaluation Before, During and After a Single Session of Yoga Exercise With and Without Instructions of Controlled Breathing and Mindful Body Awareness in Young Healthy Women

Herbert

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Fornari, Carnevali and Sgoifo (15) , Girsberger et al (20) , Valenzuela et al (17) , Curi et al (21) , Akbaş et al (18) , and Buttagat et al (22) , evaluated the response of cardiac autonomic control by analyzing the frequency of heart rate variability. Whereas Kunikata et al (16) , Mantovani et al (23) and Giles et al (24) , used the analysis of heart rate variability in the time domain. The only study that did not observe improvement in cardiac autonomic control was the study of Guillermo et al (25) Due to the fact that it is the only study to intervene in patients with fibromyalgia, we suggest the possibility that perhaps other manual therapy techniques are more suitable for this population, since the study showed high methodological quality according to the criteria of the PeDro scale.…”

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“…These two studies observed improvement in cardiac autonomic control in young women (15) , as in middle-aged patients. (20) The populations evaluated in the Fornari, Carnevali and Sgoifo (15) , Kunikata et al (16) , Akbaş et al (18) , Mantovani et al (23) and Giles et al (24) studies were all composed of healthy adults, and the intervention protocols used were craniosacral technique, hand massage, connective tissue manipulation, basic body awareness therapy and osteopathic manipulation of the upper cervical spine, respectively. The average age of these samples ranged from 20 to 26 years and both genders were present.…”

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“…38% of the articles have a quality that varies from moderate to high (with scores greater than 6 on the PEDro Scale). Therefore, the levels of quality of the articles according to the PEDro scale are medium to high quality, classified in ≥ 6 to 9 points out of 10 possible, are reported by Valenzuela et al (17) , Curi et al (21) , Akbaş et al (18) , Mantovani et al (23) , Giles et al (24) , Guillermo et al (25) and Buttagat et al (22) The Fornari, Carnevali and Sgoifo (15) , Kunikata et al (16) and Girsberger et al (20) studies have a PEDro scale score ≤5 for not meeting requirements such as: Do not randomly distribute their groups, distribution of participants not performed blindly, the study did not present both precision measures and measures of variability for at least one key result and evaluators who did not blindly measure at least one key result. Among the articles analyzed, only Valenzuela et al (17) and Buttagat et al (22) , satisfactorily fulfilled criterion 5 of the scale, which consists of "blinding" the subjects to ensure that they were unable to distinguish whether or not they received the treatment.…”

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Effect of manual therapies on cardiac autonomic control: a systematic review

Sousa¹,

Cardoso²,

Pirola³

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mtprehabjournal

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Background: Evidences suggest that manual therapies, a physiotherapy specialty widely used in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, would be complementary or alternative for the treatment of cardiac autonomic dysfunction present in the elderly, patients with cardiovascular diseases, some neuromuscular diseases and in some pain processes. Objective: Evaluate the available scientific evidence regarding the effect of manual therapy techniques on cardiac autonomic control. Methods: The selected articles were indexed in the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, SCIELO and LILACS. Results: In the initial search, 233 articles were identified in the electronic databases. After initial analysis of the titles, 210 articles were excluded because they did not address the research topic, performed other types of intervention or evaluation or because they were review articles. A second step of evaluating the 23 previously selected articles was carried out and consisted of reading the abstracts of the articles. After reading the abstracts, 11 were selected. According to the analysis of the selected articles, it was possible to observe that most manual therapy techniques improved the cardiac autonomic control of their samples: Fornari, Carnevali and Sgoifo (2017), Girsberger et al. (2014), Valenzuela et al. (2018), Curi et al. (2017), Akbaş et al. (2019), Buttagat et al. (2009),Kunikata et al. (2012), Mantovani et al. (2005) and Giles et al. (2011). Guilherme et al. (2010) was the only study that found no change. Conclusion: Manual therapies have improved cardiac autonomy acutely in healthy young and middle-aged populations or with discomfort, hypertension and back pain associated with the presence of myofascial trigger points. It is emphasized the importance of conducting new randomized controlled studies, with high methodological quality, that address the effect of other manual therapies on cardiac autonomic control.

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“…Shields et al emphasized that the scales evaluating body awareness, before the BAQ, were limited to the concepts of sensitivity to somatic responses related to the individual's disease processes, other physical symptoms or emotional states and thoughts (1). The BAQ' s broad scope, ease of administration, and holistic evaluation of the body have made it a popular choice among health professionals (15)(16)(17).…”

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Turkish Version of Body Awareness Questionnaire: Validity and Reliability Study

Karaca

Bayar

2021

Türk Fizyoterapi Ve Rehabilitasyon Dergisi

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Purpose: The Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) was described as a tool with psychometric properties that thoroughly assessed the concept of body awareness. There is no Turkish version of the scale with validity and reliability. The study aimed to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the BAQ. Methods:The study sample consisted of 180 university students (age=21.87±2.36 years, 99 M, 81 F). The BAQ, Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS), and Body Cathexis Scale (BCS) were applied to the participants.Results: Result of the correlation analysis between the BAQ and the total scores obtained from the SCS and BCS, and the correlation coefficients were determined as 0.802 (p=0.007) and -0.753 (p=0.009), respectively. As a result of the explanatory factor analysis, a measurement tool consisting of 18 items and four sub-groups explaining 66% of the variance was obtained. The testretest reliability coefficient was 0.830 at 3-day intervals. Cronbach's alpha was calculated as 0.917 to determine internal consistency. Conclusion:Findings in the study show that the Turkish version of BAQ is valid and reliable.

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Immediate effect of basic body awareness therapy on heart rate variability

Abstract: BAT was found to be an effective, easy to apply and inexpensive therapeutic technique, able to change ANS in order to improve HR which may suggest better health conditions for participating individuals.

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Can Yoga Boost Access to the Bodily and Emotional Self? Changes in Heart Rate Variability and in Affective Evaluation Before, During and After a Single Session of Yoga Exercise With and Without Instructions of Controlled Breathing and Mindful Body Awareness in Young Healthy Women

Can Yoga Boost Access to the Bodily and Emotional Self? Changes in Heart Rate Variability and in Affective Evaluation Before, During and After a Single Session of Yoga Exercise With and Without Instructions of Controlled Breathing and Mindful Body Awareness in Young Healthy Women

Effect of manual therapies on cardiac autonomic control: a systematic review

Turkish Version of Body Awareness Questionnaire: Validity and Reliability Study

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