Efficacy of Yoga versus Relaxation Techniques on Climacteric Symptoms of Perimenopausal women

Abstract

Between the age of 45 to 60 years, 85% of the women display the typical symptoms of climacterium. Out of these 35% of the women experience little weakness, 35% display moderate symptoms, 25% complain of severe pain and 5 % of these are so much affected that they are incapable of working. There have been number of alternative treatments available for treating climacteric symptoms apart from hormonal therapy. The present comparative study is aimed to find out the advantages of one therapy over other so that it could be easily followed by women suffering from climacteric syndrome. Materials & Methods: It was two group simple randomized design 250 women were screened, out of which 132 perimenopausal were used for selecting 60 samples by purposive sampling with random allocation by using lottery method and equally divided into two groups. Results: There was significant improvement in all the parameters of climacterium (Psychological, vasomotor and somatic) except the sexual component within both the groups because of their mechanism of working on sympathetic nervous system by decreasing the cortisol levels and modulating central adrenergic activity.