This presentation attempt to study the impact of selected asanas among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

1. Dr.R.Kalidasan
Asst. Prof. (SS) & UGC Research Awardee
and
M. Udhaya Kumar
Full time Ph.D. Research scholar
Dept. of Physical Education & Yoga Centre
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli-620 024
IMPACT OF SELECTED ASANAS ON FASTING BLOOD
SUGAR AND POST PRANDIAL BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL
AMONG TYPE-2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

2. Yoga
Indian traditional & prestigious method
Helps to strengthen the body, mind & soul
Gift to us
Therapeutic (Diabetes)

3. Diabetes
Diabetes is being recognized as a global
epidemic, with the potential to cause a
worldwide healthcare crisis.
Diabetes stat
According to International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
Diabetes atlas 2013 estimates
Globally that more than 382 million people have diabetes
China with 98.4 million were affected by Diabetes
India with 65.1 million people were affected by diabetes
One estimation suggest that 592 million people will live
with diabetes in 2035

4. Purpose
to find out the impact of selected
asanas practices on fasting blood
sugar and post prandial blood sugar
level among type-2 diabetes
mellitus patients.

5. Subject
Forty male type-2 diabetes mellitus
patients (without any complications)
Age-group of 45-55 years with diabetes of
0-5 years duration were selected from
Tiruchirappalli city, Tamil Nadu state, India.

6. Groups
Divided in to two groups of twenty patients each
1.Asana practices group
2.Control group
Experimental treatment
90 days
6 days per week
one session per day
45 minutes.

7. S.No Area Variables Test /
equipment
Units
1 Biochemical Fasting Blood sugar
glucose (FBS)
SD Check Gold
glucose test
strip containing
the enzyme by
glucose oxidase
method.
mg/dl
Post prandial Blood
sugar (PPBS)
Selection of the variables & Test

8. Warm-up
Shantiasana (shavasana)
Pawana muktasana
Uttana padasana
Navukkasana
Janu shirasana
Vakarasana
Dhanurasana
Tadasana
Konasana
Padahastasna
List of asanas

9. Statistical technique
Pre and post test
Descriptive analysis &
Analysis of co-variance
(ANCOVA).

10. S.No Variables Group
Pre-test
Mean
SD (±)
Post –test
Mean
SD (±)
Adjusted
post test
Mean
1
Fasting
Blood Sugar
APG 271.05 34.62 212.75 30.59 210.08
CG 264.85 38.55 263.05 43.12 265.71
2
Post
prandial
Blood Sugar
APG 318.10 31.05 219.75 24.31 222.74
CG
327.25 38.15 323.10 44.50 320.11
Table-I
Descriptive analysis of selected fasting blood sugar
and post prandial level among control and
experimental groups (in mg/dl)
APG= Asana practices group CG= Control group
*significant at 0.05 level of confidence

11. S.No Variables Test Sum of variance Sum of squares df Mean square F ratio
1
FastingBloodSugar
Pre-test
Between the group 384.40 1 384.40
0.28
Within the group 51023.50 38 1342.72
Post-test
Between the group 25300.90 1 25300.90
20.90*
Within the group 45986.70 38 1210.17
Adjusted
means
Between the sets 30714.57 1 30714.57
137.07*
Within the sets 8290.66 37 224.07
2
PostprandialBloodSugar
Pre-test
Between the group 837.22 1 837.22
0.59
Within the group 53117.55 38 1397.83
Post-test
Between the group 106812.22 1 106812.22
83.06*
Within the group 48861.55 38 1285.83
Adjusted
means
Between the sets 93339.34 1 93339.34
131.92*
Within the sets 26178.77 37 707.53
TABLE – II
Computation of analysis of covariance on selected fasting blood sugar and post
prandial level among type-2 diabetes mellitus patients
*Significant at 0.05level of confidences
(The table values required for significance at 0.05 level of confidence for 1 & 38 and 1 & 37 are 4.09 and 4.10 respectively).

12. Discussion of findings
The results of the study indicate that the
experimental group which underwent asanas
practices had showed significant decrease in the
fasting blood sugar and post prandial blood
sugar, when compared to the control group. The
control groups did not show significant
differences level in any of the selected variables.
These findings confirm the earlier findings of
Jain et al., (1993); Singh et al., (2004) and
Sahay, (2007).

13. Conclusions
From the analysis of data, the following
conclusions were drawn.
•The type-2 diabetes mellitus patients of
experimental group showed significant decrease
in fasting blood sugar and post prandial blood
sugar.
•The type-2 diabetes patients of control group
did not show significant level difference in the
fasting blood sugar and post prandial blood
sugar.

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