Immediate Effect of Three Yoga Breathing Techniques on Performance on a Letter-Cancellation Task

Telles, Shirley; Raghuraj, P.; Maharana, Satyapriya; Nagendra, Hongasandra Ramarao

doi:10.2466/pms.104.4.1289-1296

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“…[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Eleven studies included subjects who were practitioners of breathing exercises and other components of yoga. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Their experience ranged from seven days to eighty-six months. Twenty-six studies did not provide details regarding prior yoga experience.…”

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Alternate nostril breathing: a systematic review of clinical trials

Ghiya¹

2017

Int J Res Med Sci

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Anulom-vilom Pranayama/ alternate nostril breathing (ANB)/Nadi-suddhi pranayama is one of the common yogic breathing techniques and involves breathing through one nostril at a time while closing the other nostril manually. This study aimed to summarize effects of independent ANB on various physiological parameters, to evaluate safety issues in clinical populations and collect published primary scientific evidence on the benefits of ANB. PubMed/Medline, Cinahl, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched using the following terms: Alternate nostril breathing, Anulom-vilom/ anuloma-viloma pranayama, Nadi-shodhan/Nadi-shodhana pranayama. Forty-four randomized controlled trials were included in this review paper. These studies evaluated the effects of alternate nostril breathing on parameters of the autonomic nervous system, cardiopulmonary system, cognitive functioning, problem solving and motor memory retention. Of the studies, ten showed a high level of bias; twenty-nine showed a low level of bias and five showed an unknown level of bias as per Cochrane systemic review guidelines. Most of the studies included healthy subjects and age range was eight to seventy years. Alternate nostril breathing has few variations and standardization of the technique is yet to be established. This technique provides high level evidence for positive outcomes for the autonomic nervous and cardiopulmonary systems. There is also high level of evidence regarding improvement in cognitive functioning with regular practice of alternate nostril breathing. More clinical trials are required to evaluate the effects of alternate nostril breathing in clinical populations and to synthesize effective frequency and duration parameters.

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Section: Participants Characteristicsmentioning

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Alternate nostril breathing: a systematic review of clinical trials

Ghiya¹

2017

Int J Res Med Sci

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“…The reason for selection of the techniques was that they were effective in addressing the nervous system as addressed in the literature (Telles, et al, 2007), with no side-effects and easy to administer with young children. In the first breathing technique, the participant breathes in and out of the nose deeply.…”

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“…The two breathing techniques of deep breathing and alternate nostril breathing purport to provide therapeutic benefits for memory and brain cells (Telles, et al 2007). Deep breathing exercise stimulates slow, deep, and rhythmic breathing, which results in increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood stream, thereby improving blood circulation.…”

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Therapeutic Breathing Techniques and Disparity across Student Performance in English and Mathematics

2017

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<p class="Abstract">This paper explores possible correlation between Therapeutic Breathing Techniques (TBT) and improved academic performance of low achieving students in elementary school. The intervention consisted of daily breathing exercises combining two forms of TBT, namely, deep breathing and alternate nostril breathing. A semester-long quantitative study with85 second graders was conducted to investigate the impact of above intervention on English and mathematics scores. Following one semester of intervention, the gaps between the low and high achievers had narrowed and small but significant gain-scores were found for the low achievers who had practiced TBT. In contrast, in first and third grades, where neither low achievers nor high achievers received the treatment, the gap between the low and high achievers widened slightly. The findings indicate the need to further investigate the potential merit of therapeutic breathing exercises as a low-cost intervention strategy for improving school performance and addressing achievement gaps, especially in mathematics.</p>

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“…Sahasi et al (1989) has demonstrated the effectiveness of yogic techniques in the management of anxiety and reported increased attention and concentration [7]. The studies on different yogic techniques, i.e., deep relaxation technique (DRT) and supine rest (SR) [8], pranayama [9] demonstrated an increase in attention. Two yoga-based relaxation techniques, namely, cyclic meditation (CM) and supine rest (SR) on the six letter cancellation task (SLCT) reported significant increase attention scores in school students [10].…”

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