The effect and maintenance of breath training with and without yogaon Pain, range of motion and quality of life in women with Chronicnonspecific neck pain

Chronic nonspecific neck pain considered as a common problem which most of the time comes with changes in sensorimotor functions, beside high financial expense, its accompany with pain and personal concerns in society. The purpose of this research was to study and compare the effect and maintenance of breath training with and without yoga on Pain, range of motion and quality of life in women with chronic nonspecific neck pain.

The present study was a quasi - experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. For this purpose, 45 women (40 to 50 years old) with chronic non-specific neck pain and fulfilled the inclusion criteria has been selected by convenience sampling in 3 equal groups of 15 patients (randomly). Then two experimental groups performed the training protocol. The protocol was eight weeks of 45minute exercise program, three sessions per week, of breath training with yoga, breath training. In order to assess pain, range of motion and quality of life of subject, visual analogue scale, Universal Goniometer and whoqol-brief questionnaire was used. All variables were measured one week prior to the study, before, and immediately after the intervention and four weeks afterwards. After data collection, for data analysis Repeated measure ANOVA was applied at the significant level of (p≤0/05).

The findings of this study showed that both breath training with yoga and breath training has significant effect on pain, range of motion and quality of life of subject women with chronic non-specific neck pain(P≤0.05). Conducting a between-group comparison also showed that the pain, range of motion and quality of life variables had the highest variation, which was related to the breath training with yoga and breath training, respectively.

According to the results, breath training with yoga showed greater recuperation than breath training. The breath training with yoga are recommended as an adjunct method in treatment of subject with chronic nonspecific neck pain..