The effects of rebound therapy and aerobic training on clinical symptoms and happiness, in asthmatic patients

Document Type : Research Paper

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Background and Aim:. Asthma shows itself by airways narrowing. Sport exercises are main part of the pulmonary rehabilitation program. This study designed to investigate the effects of the rebound therapy and aerobic training on clinical symptoms and happiness in Asthmatic patients.
Materials and Methods: 30 male patients with Asthma were participant in this semi-experimental research and randomly divided into two experimental groups(rebound therapy group(10 people) and aerobic group(10 people) and one control group(10 people). After explaining the project  and signing a formal contest, the subjects started their special training under supervision of an exercise expert for 8weeks, three sessions a week. During the two sessions before and after workouts in this research clinical symptoms was measured by Daytime symptom diary scale questions and happiness was measured with Oxford happiness questionnaire (OHQ).  Repeated measure ANOVA was used to statistical analysis with α = 0.05.
Results: Findings showed that the group within changes in both variables and groups interaction in happiness was significant (P < 0/05) but in clinical symptoms interaction was not significant(P > 0/05). No significant between groups differences during testing times in variables were other outcomes (P > 0/05).
Conclusion: It seems that the rebound therapy exercise can used as a useful complementary method to reduce some problems in patients with asthma.

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