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Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity are rising and they are associated with many medical complications and increased health care costs. In today's lives, lots of ways are being tried to reduce weight. There are different forms of exercises which can either be performed under the supervision of exercise trainer (supervised exercise) or with the use of workout videos. Now a day's lots of exercises are performed looking at DVD. The purpose of this study is to see whether supervised exercise or workout videos are effective for weight reduction. Materials and Methods:This was a randomised control trial conducted in K.J. Somaiya College of Physiotherapy. 30 individuals belonging to the inclusion criteria were randomly selected and divided into 2 groups of 15 each. Evaluation in terms of weight, girth measurements and fat percentage was taken. The exercise protocol for supervised exercise (live) and workout videos (DVD) was same and a DVD/CD was given to DVD group. The study duration was 4 days/ week for 4 weeks.Results: Weight loss from baseline to 4 weeks for supervised exercise and workout videos exercise was 1.53± 0.83 and 0.413± 0.5181 kg which was statistically significant (p< 0.0001) and (p< 0.0004) respectively. Similarly the reduction in waist girth post 4 weeks for group A and group B was 2.4± 0.9856 and 1.4± 0.6325 cm and in hip girth was 2.86± 1.506 and 1.16± 0.87 cm. The reduction in fat percentage in group A and group B was 1.58± 1.053 and 0.413± 0.5181. Conclusion:Individuals who participated in the 4 weeks exercise program achieved reduction in all outcome measures however supervised ( live) exercise program achieved greater results in weight, fat percentage, waist girth, hip girth and BMI as compared to workout videos( DVD exercise). Thus from the study can be concluded that there is reduction in weight in both the groups however Live exercises are better than DVD exercises for weight reduction.

Introduction: Hypertension is increasing in India and is one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It has been linked to many diseases. Several studies showed that hypertension and lung function are associated causing reduction in lung function. Also stress has been listed as a potential and important cause of hypertension. But there was paucity of information about the stress having an effect on lung function in hypertensive adults, thus there was a need to conduct this study. Materials and Method: The study comprised of 72 controlled hypertensive adults. Stress was assessed using Perceived stress scale and the lung function was assessed using a Spirometer (Spirobank II). Data was collected and recorded in the Excel 2016 spreadsheet and analyzed using GraphPad Prism 9. Shapiro-Wilk test was used to analyze the normality of the data. Since the data has not passed the normality test, Spearman’s correlation test was used for calculating the correlation. Results: There was a very weak correlation between Perceived stress scale (PSS) score and FEV 1 which was statistically not significant (p>0.05). A weak correlation was found between PSS score and FVC which was statistically significant (p<0.05).PSS was negatively correlated with both the parameters of PFT (FEV1 and FVC) and there was no correlation between PSS and FEV1/FVC. Conclusion: Increased perceived stress levels may affect the lung function in hypertensive adults. Key words: Hypertension, Controlled hypertension, Pulmonary function, Stress, depression, lung function

Background: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) leads to many physical impairements which can affect the daily physical tasks. Giving neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) to quadriceps muscle can improve the functional status without causing fatigue and compromising oxygen status. The aim of the study was to study the effect of NMES on quadriceps muscle strength and six minute walk distance in Pulmonary tuberculosis. Method:This was an interventional based study conducted in K.J.Somaiya Medical Hospital. 26 patients suffering from pulmunary tuberculosis were taken in the study. Strength assessment of quadriceps muscle was assessed by 1RM and six minute walk distance was assessed by six minute walk test. NMES is given to quadriceps muscles bilaterally for continuous 10 sessions in 11 days.Result: Wilcoxon signed rank test, 't' test and mann whitney test were done to analyse the data. There was significant increase in 1RM (1.808kgs->2.885kgs) and 6MWD (405.23m->493.65m) post NMES training. Conclusion:Therefore the study performed suggest that NMES training performed prior to endurance training is useful for strengthening peripheral muscles, which in turn may augment gains in body weight and improves quality of life, further reductions in ventilation requirements during exercise. Despite the ability to cure tuberculosis, there remains a significant impact on the patient's health status in physical, psychological and social aspects. The study showed significant improvement by giving NMES in 6MWD and 1RM.