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Hindi Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Cold Hip Bath on Autonomic Variables among Healthy Individuals
*Corresponding Author:Received Date: Sep 30, 2023 / Published Date: Jan 03, 2025
Citation: Anilkumara A, Sujatha KJ, Shetty P (2024) Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Cold Hip Bath on Autonomic Variables among Healthy Individuals. J Tradit Med Clin Natur 14: 475.
Copyright: © 2025 Anilkumara A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background: Naturopathy is a distinct system of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T and CM) recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). The concepts and practices of naturopathy are ingrained in Indian culture, which is continually expanding and changing while embracing components that increase our understanding of the workings of natural therapies and healing. Naturopathy is a cost-effective, non-invasive, drugless treatment method with no side effects. Hydrotherapy is one of the important treatment modalities in it. Studies related to the physiological effects of several treatment modalities in naturopathy are limited. The short and long term effect of cold hip baths is not elicited in any of the previous research. Hence it is essential to understand the underlying mechanisms of the treatment. So, the present study aims to evaluate the short and long-term effect of cold hip baths on autonomic variables among healthy individuals.
Methods: A total of 120 subjects were selected and randomly allocated into two groups using a computerized generated random number table. Group 1 is the study group and received cold hip bath for 10 days. Group 2 is the control group who had been asked to sit in the empty hip bathtub. The pre and post data was collected for both the groups.
Result: There was a significant (p<0.05) difference noted in all the hemodynamic variables through RM-ANOVA over pre, post 1 and post 2 in study group and the same change was seen in the variables of heart rate variability except SDRR with p value>0.05. But in the control group no significant difference was observed in both hemodynamic variables and heart rate variability when compared in between pre, post 1 and post 2 through RM-ANOVA. When both the study group and control groups were compared shows a significant (p<0.05) difference in all the hemodynamic variables and heart rate variability except SDRR, LF, HF and LF/HF.
Conclusion: The study result showed that the cold hip bath has tendency to regulate systolic and diastolic blood pressure immediately and effect was sustained in the study group after continuing cold hip bath for 10 days.
