The Effectiveness of Post-Workout Fitness and Sports Massage in Changing Blood Pressure, Pulse Rate, and Breathing Frequency

Abstract

massage can reduce muscular tension, accelerate blood circulation, increase nerve conductivity, breathing frequency, pulse rate, and blood flow. Sports massage, as well as the new Post-Workout Fitness Massage methods, may also decrease blood pressure, pulse rate, and breathing frequency to aid rapid the recovery of athletes. Objective: 1. To determine the effectiveness of the methods of Post-Workout Fitness Massage and Sports Massage. Some of the effects of massage include changes in pulse rate, blood pressure and respiratory frequency, 2. To identify the types of post-workout fitness massage and sports massage that are most effective in changing pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiratory frequency. This is a queasy Experimental research with the design of Pretest-Postest using the purposive sampling technique [1.2]. The population was 27 male students and the number of samples required was 24 with the criteria of inclusion. Preliminary data were obtained by measuring systolic blood pressure (TDS), diastolic blood pressure (TDD), pulse rate (DN), and respiratory frequency (F). The results of this study indicate that 1. Post-workout Fitness Massage and Sports Massage can reduce the systolic blood pressure of 114.72 mmHg and 118.13 mmHg, the diastolic blood pressure of 57.72 mmHg and 57.91 mmHg, while the pulse rate the decreases with 81.82 times/min and 79.02 times/min, as well as at respiratory frequencies of 17.91 times/min and 19.46 times/ min. 2. Sports massage is more effective in reducing TDS, TDD, DN, FP (F> 0.05). Postworkout Fitness Massage and sports massage are effective in reducing the systolic and diastolic blood pressures, pulse rate, and respiratory frequency. Sports massage is more effective for recovery compared to the fitness massage after intense physical activity.

Efficacy of sport and slow stroke back massage as a non-pharmacological therapy to lower blood pressure in elderly with chronic hypertension

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Immunoglobulin-A (IgA) Improvement through Sports and Frirage Massage

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“…A very striking difference can be seen from his movement techniques, sports massage has reliable manipulation, namely effleurage carried out using the entire surface of the palm. The pressure in the sport massage is so soft and smooth that effleurage throughout the body gives warm and comfortable feelings for the massaged person [29].…”