Do you feel abnormal heart rhythms? You need to add yoga to your daily routine to maintain a healthy heart, especially people suffering from Atrial fibrillation, confirm researchers.
Yoga is the mantra to good health and effect of this mantra on patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) showed effective improvements. Atrial fibrillation is a most common heart rhythm disorder in which rapid heart rate and defective electrical signals commence suddenly and then stop on their own.
Lead author and part of the Study, Maria Wahlstrom at Karolinska Institute in Sweden has stated “Atrial fibrillation episodes are accompanied by chest pain, dyspnoea and dizziness. These symptoms are unpleasant and patients feel anxious, worried and stressed that an AF episode will occur.” Researchers stated that atrial fibrillation is the most frequent heart rhythm disorder and no cure has been discovered by scientists yet.
The research team worked on 80 patients suffering from paroxysmal AF. The study participants partitioned into two groups, one who were randomised to yoga other who did not do yoga. The researchers tried to find out a link between two. Each week these patients had to undergo training sessions of one hour, once a week, for 12. After 12 weeks, the researchers took a glance at the results of performed action and they concluded that the yoga scheduled group had higher “SF-36” mental health scores, diastolic blood pressure and normal heart rhythms than others who didn’t do yoga.
Maria Wahlstrom commented, “We found that patients who did yoga had a better quality of life, lower heart rate and lower blood pressure than patients who did not do yoga. The breathing and movement may have beneficial effects on blood pressure.” She added,”Patients in the yoga group said it felt good to let go of their thoughts and just be inside themselves for a while.” The final result predicted that the yoga session was advantageous to AF patients.
The detailed study has been published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
