Comparing the effect of a Swedish massage course and resistance training on white blood cell count in overweight women
Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1302-SSRC
Authors
1دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد الیگودرز
2دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد الیگودرز
Abstract
Abstract
Background & Goal:
Inactive lifestyle and obesity have been recognized as detrimental to health. White blood cells (WBC) are part of the immune system. The purpose of this research is to compare the effect of a Swedish massage course and resistance training on white blood cell count in overweight women.
materials and methods:
The subjects of this research were 24 overweight women with an age range of 30 to 45 years, who were divided into three groups: control (8 people), resistance training (8 people) and massage (8 people). All people met the conditions for entering the study. Subjects in exercise and massage groups experienced the intervention for 8 weeks with a frequency of 3 sessions per week. Before and after the intervention period, the number of subsets of white blood cells (neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, lymphocyte and monocyte) was investigated. The normality of the distribution was checked using the Shapiro-Wilk (S-W) test, and for normal data, the correlated t test was used to measure intragroup changes, the ANOVA test (one-way analysis of variance) and the LSD post hoc test at a significance level of 0.05.
findings :
The results of this research showed that neutrophils in two groups had a significant decrease (P≤0.05), but no significant difference between groups was observed (P≥0.05). This finding was also true for monocytes and lymphocytes. Regarding eosinophil and elephant's arm, no significant statistical difference was observed between groups and within groups (P≥0.05).
Conclusion :
It seems that both interventions play an equal role in the issue of inflammation and changes in the subset of white blood cells.
Background & Goal:
Inactive lifestyle and obesity have been recognized as detrimental to health. White blood cells (WBC) are part of the immune system. The purpose of this research is to compare the effect of a Swedish massage course and resistance training on white blood cell count in overweight women.
materials and methods:
The subjects of this research were 24 overweight women with an age range of 30 to 45 years, who were divided into three groups: control (8 people), resistance training (8 people) and massage (8 people). All people met the conditions for entering the study. Subjects in exercise and massage groups experienced the intervention for 8 weeks with a frequency of 3 sessions per week. Before and after the intervention period, the number of subsets of white blood cells (neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, lymphocyte and monocyte) was investigated. The normality of the distribution was checked using the Shapiro-Wilk (S-W) test, and for normal data, the correlated t test was used to measure intragroup changes, the ANOVA test (one-way analysis of variance) and the LSD post hoc test at a significance level of 0.05.
findings :
The results of this research showed that neutrophils in two groups had a significant decrease (P≤0.05), but no significant difference between groups was observed (P≥0.05). This finding was also true for monocytes and lymphocytes. Regarding eosinophil and elephant's arm, no significant statistical difference was observed between groups and within groups (P≥0.05).
Conclusion :
It seems that both interventions play an equal role in the issue of inflammation and changes in the subset of white blood cells.
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