The effect of special exercises in the aquatic environment on some physical and physiological variables for patients with high blood pressure

Abstract

The research aims to find out the effect of exercise, especially in the aquatic environment, on some physical and physiological variables for patients with high blood pressure. The problem of the research was that high blood pressure is one of the chronic diseases widely spread in Iraq, which occurs either due to heredity or because of bad habits practiced by humans, including eating food in a large manner. Excessive or lack of sleep or lack of movement, and this is the most influential reason for the spread of high blood pressure disease. During the researchers’ follow-up to some hospitals and private internal medicine clinics, they found that most of high blood pressure patients feel early fatigue and an inability to walk or move for short or long periods, and this in turn It greatly affects the completion of daily life duties. The research sample was randomly selected for patients with high blood pressure whose ages ranged between (50-55) years and their number was (20) male patients with this disease. The researchers used the experimental method, as it is the most appropriate method for solving the problem. The research problem: The sample was divided into two groups of equal number, each with (10) patients. Training was conducted for the first group under the supervision of the researchers, and the second group was trained independently, and pre-tests were carried out after the objective of the research was explained to the participants and their approval was obtained formally on the date of (6/3/2023) and the post-tests were on (9/4/2023) in the Spanish swimming pool located in Babylon Governorate, Hilla District in the Al-Iskan area. The tests included some physical variables such as walking (6) minutes and physiological variables such as heart rate, And testing heart effort, high and low blood pressure, and pulmonary ventilation. The researchers concluded that training in the water environment and on a regular basis in swimming pools and under the supervision of researchers affects the variables mentioned above, and that self-training leads to obtaining inefficient results due to the sample’s lack of commitment to training on an ongoing basis.