1. Immediate effect of cold mud pack therapy on autonomic variables in primary hypertensive individuals: a randomized trial.
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Valsakumar, Abitone, Dinesh, Sujatha, Prasad, Ganesh, and Shetty, Prashanth
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AUTONOMIC nervous system physiology ,BLOOD pressure ,NONPARAMETRIC statistics ,STATISTICS ,NATUROPATHY ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,ANALYSIS of variance ,SYSTOLIC blood pressure ,MANN Whitney U Test ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials ,COMPARATIVE studies ,T-test (Statistics) ,PRE-tests & post-tests ,ESSENTIAL hypertension ,HEART beat ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,SPHYGMOMANOMETERS ,ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY ,ALTERNATIVE medicine ,STATISTICAL sampling ,DATA analysis software ,FRIEDMAN test (Statistics) ,DATA analysis ,LONGITUDINAL method ,EVALUATION - Abstract
The article highlights a study on to elucidate the effectiveness of cold spinal mud packs on improving neuro-cardiac parameters among hypertensive individuals. It discusses that Cold spinal mud pack reduces the sympathetic tone and shifts the sympathovagal balance in favor of parasympathetic dominance, contributing to a decrease in BP and effective changes in components of Heart Rate Variability.
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- 2022
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