Perpaduan Isometric Exercise dan Latihan Pernafasan Yoga Terhadap Penurunan Tekanan Darah pada Pasien Hipertensi di Desa Mojojajar Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kedungsari Kabupaten Mojokerto

Anjarsari, Dinda Risma Putri
Hanan, Abdul
Widiani, Esti

Jurnal Kesehatan Andalas
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2021): Online March 2021

One of the non-pharmacological treatments that can be done to lower blood pressure is to increase the patient's physical activity, such as Isometric Exercise and Yoga breathing exercises. Objectives: To determined isometric exercise and yoga breathing on reducing blood pressure in hypertension. Methods: This study used a pre-experimental design with a one-group pretest-postest design. The sampling technique was purposive sampling. The number of samples in this study was 25 people. Results: The paired t-test statistical test results were a decrease in blood pressure after being given the intervention of isometric exercise and yoga breathing exercises with a p-value of 0.000 (p<0.05). Conclusion: Isometric exercise and yoga breathing exercises can be an alternative non-pharmacological therapy to reduce blood pressure in hypertension.Keywords:  Isometric Exercise, Yoga Breathing Exercise, Hypertension