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Effectiveness of yoga intervention enhanced by progressive muscular relaxation on pain in women after breast cancer surgery
 
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Department of Physical Rehabilitation, Khortytsia National Academy, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
 
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Department of Theory of Sport and Physical Culture, Lviv State University of Physical Culture, Lviv, Ukraine
 
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Department of Gymnastics and Martial Arts, South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, Odessa, Ukraine
 
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National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, Kyiv, Ukraine
 
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Department of Physical Education and Sport, Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport, Kharkiv, Ukraine
 
 
Submission date: 2019-11-14
 
 
Acceptance date: 2020-01-10
 
 
Publication date: 2020-11-23
 
 
Physiother Quart. 2020;28(4):25-29
 
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Introduction:
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga intervention enhanced by progressive muscular relaxation on pain in women after breast cancer surgery

Methods:
Overall, 84 patients after Madden mastectomy were eligible for this study. After the exclusion of 7 women, 77 participants were randomly allocated to group A (n = 38), receiving progressive muscular relaxation and visualization exercises in addition to yoga intervention, and group B (n = 39), receiving yoga intervention only. McGill Pain Questionnaire and visual analogue scale were used to evaluate pain at baseline and after the 4-week intervention.

Results:
Most of the investigated pain characteristics in both studied groups steadily improved during the 4-week rehabilitation. However, the 4-week monitoring indicated that using progressive muscular relaxation and visualization exercises in addition to the yoga intervention was more effective for reducing self-reported pain in women after Madden mastectomy. The post-intervention level of pain reported in the visual analogue scale and present pain intensity were statistically lower in group A compared with group B by 0.99 points (p < 0.05) and 1.68 points (p < 0.05), respectively.

Conclusions:
Performing progressive muscular relaxation and visualization exercises in addition to yoga intervention helped reduce pain in women after Madden mastectomy.

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