Attending Yoga Sessions Helps Heart Patients to Improve Their Irregular Heartbeat

One hour of yoga a week is clinically proven to improve the health condition of patients who are diagnosed with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. It also reduces stress and high blood pressure.

According to Medical Daily, patients who had paroxysmal atrial fibrillation can usually experience episodes of chest pain and dizziness. Atrial fibrillation affects the rhythm of the patient's heart, making it beat too fast or too slow.

Studies show that patients diagnosed with Paroxysmal AFib are recommended to do yoga to reduce their high blood pressure, stress condition and regulate the rhythm of the heart. Twelve weeks of yoga can regulate the heart rate and blood pressure compared to those who are not doing it.

When AFib occurs, blood doesn't pump completely into the heart's ventricles. Instead, it runs into the atria. Having AFIB is a result of the upper and lower chambers of the heart that won't work together than they usually do.

Some doctors illustrate it as persistent, permanent or paroxysmal. Paroxysmal and persistent could build up into the most extreme type of the condition, also known as permanent atrial fibrillation. Permanent atrial fibrillation can't be treated or restore the normalized the hearts rhythm with medicine.

According to Maria Wahlström, a PhD candidate at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said, "Practicing yoga may decrease stress and have positive effects on mental and physical health." Wahlström and her colleagues conducted an investigation that whether the practice was developed in ancient times in Northern India that can benefit atrial fibrillation patients at the earliest level of arrhythmia.

"Yoga with light movements and deep breathing may lead to improved quality of life, lower blood pressure and lower heart rate in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation compared to a control group," researchers say. "Yoga could be a complementary treatment method to standard therapy," they added, according to HNGN.