Effect of Yogic Practices with and without Laughing Therapy on Flexibility among Geriatric Diabetic Women

Author(s) Name:

M.Veerabathiran & Dr. P. Senthil

Abstract:

                Many believe that it is an incremental phase in the life span and others associate it with health problems or disease (Choudhry, D. Paul, 1992).  This debate aside, ageing is a universal phenomenon.  At the collective level old age poses a challenge to policy makers in developing and developed and developed countries (Irudayarajan, 2005).  This challenge is accentuated by rapid growth of science and technology.  Better nutrition, sanitation and health facilities have decreased mortality rates and increased expectancy of life. The study was undertaken with the aim to observe the effect of yogic practices with and without laughing therapy on flexibility  among Geriatric diabetic women. For this study totally 45 Geriatric diabetic women were selected as subjects from Chennai. Their age ranged between 60 to 70 years. They were divided in to three groups. Experimental group I –yogic practices with laughing therapy , Experimental group II- yogic practices  without laughing therapy and group III –control group (no intervention). The data was collected from three groups prior to training and after 6 weeks of yogic practices with and without laughing therapy.  Analysis of covariance was used to find out the significant difference between the three groups. The level of significance at 0.05%. The results proved that the regular yogic practices and laughing therapy helped to significantly reduce the physical variable flexibility .

Keywords:

Yogic Practices, Laughing Theraphy, Flexibility, Geriatric Women.

Please cite this article as:

K. Tamilselvi & Dr. S. Arul (2020). Effect of Yogic Practices with and without Laughing Therapy on Flexibility among Geriatric Diabetic Women. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 7, 11(8), 32-35.