The Effects of Pranayama and Deep Breathing Exercises on Pain and Sleep Quality After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.
Elif Kurt, Ayşegül Yayla
PMID 39870367WHAT IT FOUND
Patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy who did deep breathing or pranayama, plus routine paracetamol infusion, reported lower pain at 6, 12, and 24 hours and better sleep on the second day than those who did not do the exercises.
Key findings
01Patients assigned to deep breathing or pranayama had lower postoperative pain than the control group, and the control group accounted for the between-group difference.
02The deep breathing group had the lowest pain levels among the three groups.
03Patients assigned to deep breathing or pranayama had higher postoperative sleep scores than the control group.
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What it does not show
All patients received routine paracetamol infusion after surgery, so the study shows outcomes with breathing exercises added to usual analgesia, not what the exercises would do on their own. The researchers could not check whether patients performed the pranayama or deep breathing exercises effectively. The study did not evaluate long-term effects after discharge. Pain and sleep scores were self-reported. The results may apply only to patients at the single hospital studied.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that pranayama or deep breathing can replace postoperative analgesia. All patients received routine paracetamol infusion, and the study measured self-reported pain and sleep without checking whether the exercises were performed effectively.