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Effect of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation on Blood Pressure

Effects of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Exercise on Blood Pressure and Ankle Brachial Index in Patient With Hypertension

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05110365
Enrollment
24
Registered
2021-11-05
Start date
2021-06-26
Completion date
2022-08-18
Last updated
2022-09-23

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Conditions

Hypertension

Keywords

proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitations, ankle brachial index, diabetes

Brief summary

To determine the effect of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation exercise on blood pressure in patient with mild to moderate hypertension.Both genders will be included.Patients aged between 40 and 60 years with mild and moderate hypertension.Systolic blood pressure 130-160 mmHg or Diastolic Blood Pressure 80-100 mmHg. Sphygmomanometer and EuroQoL five-dimensional instrument would be used for the 'Pre' & 'Post' assessment.

Detailed description

There is a belief that proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercises cause cardiac overload as blood pressure in immediately influenced by exercise but Pereira concluded in his research that proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercises with minimum repetitions are safe for hypertensive or cardiovascular patients because in his study there is no increase in blood pressure in older women after performing three different types of PNF exercises. Pereira discovered that rhythmic initiation , dynamic reversals , and combination of isotonic techniques did not raise blood pressure levels, thus it is recommended to use up to five repeats of repetition maximum . One study observed at the effects of passive and modified proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)stretching techniques on acute systolic and diastolic blood pressure responses. All PNF treatments were beneficial in increasing Range of motion, as we all know. PNF improves Range Of Motion while avoiding an increase in Systolic blood pressure in one or two trials, but increases Systolic blood pressure in a third trial. Blood pressure rises by 40% with conventional exercise programmers and because PNF involves near-maximal resistance,researchers anticipated a considerable rise in blood pressure during PNF execution. It was discovered that elderly subjects could not readily execute more than five to seven repetitions of PNF exercises, which has also been shown by others. Due to the low repetition number of each movement pattern, the results showed that PNF did not induce a high enough workload to increase blood pressure in the elderly.

Interventions

OTHERProprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation

The patient will be provided with mild to moderate resistance PNF pattern which is a type of Endurance training which decreases BP through a reduction in systemic vascular resistance(15).In a regimen as follow with the frequency of 3 days a week, a repetition of 3 sets for one hour and a total duration of 3 months(16). The PNF patterns will be diagonal 1 (D1) and diagonal 2 (D2) patterns. Both patterns are subdivided into: A) Moving into Flexion: the toes start flexed and ends extended. Ankle and foot start plantar flexed; everted and ends dorsiflexed inverted. Tibia starts externally rotated and ends internally rotated. Knee starts extended, and ends flexed. The hip starts extended, abducted, internally rotated and ends flexed, adducted, externally rotated.B) Moving into Extension: The start and end are reversed to D1 Moving into Flexion

Sponsors

Riphah International University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
40 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Both genders will be included. * Patients aged between 40 and 60 years with mild and moderate hypertension. * Systolic blood pressure 130-160 mmHg or Diastolic blood pressure 80-100 mmHg. * Mild and moderate hypertension with diabetes

Exclusion criteria

* Severe hypertensive patients. * Patient on smoking * Patient with severe complications and comorbidities. * Not willing to give consent/ data

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
sphygmomanometer12 weekssphygmomanometer will be used for measuring blood pressure and ankle brachial index

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
(EuroQoL five-dimensional instrument )12 weeksquality of life measures the five dimension mobility,selfcare,usual activities,pain and anxiety. 0 for minimum 5 for maximum

Countries

Pakistan

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026