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Background : Diabetes mellitus affects the muscles as muscle play notable role in the regulation of blood sugar level. The lack of glucose can lead to muscle cells atrophying and therefore loss of muscle mass. Stretching can increase cellular glucose uptake. Strengthening may improve strength , enlarged muscle mass and to improve insulin sensitivity and glycaemic control. Their paucity of literature on immediate effect of stretching versus strengthening exercises on blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus . Objective: To find out immediate effect of stretching on blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus individuals. To find out immediate effect of strengthening exercises on blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus individuals. To compare the immediate effectiveness of stretching and strengthening exercises on blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus individuals. Methodology: the study was conducted in Krishna hospital, in physiotherapy department. 44 subjects were selected with simple random sampling method. Chronic type 2 diabetes mellitus individuals were divided in to two groups. Group A (stretching) and group B (strengthening exercises)was given. The pre- and post –treatment postprandial Blood glucose values was measured by glucometer. Result: In conducted study, postprandial BGL showed statistically significant difference between pre and post treatment values in both group A and B. Conclusion: from the above conducted study it concludes that both stretching and strengthening exercises are effective in decreasing postprandial blood glucose level in type 2 diabetes mellitus, as there is no significant difference between both the groups . Strengthening exercises increased more flexibility in females than passive stretching and males were benefited with both stretching and strengthening exercises.

Background: Breathing exercises plays an important role in day to day life as its responsible for the functional stability. To prevent secondary complications like post-operative pulmonary complication, effects of immobility, morbidity, mortality. Hence this study being conducted to find out the awareness of breathing exercises in pre-operative patients before undergoing abdominal surgery. Objectives: Objective of the study was to find out awareness of breathing exercises in pre-operative patients undergoing abdominal surgery and to find out awareness regrading importance of breathing exercise according to their gender wise. Methodology: The study was conducted in Krishna institute of medical sciences with a sample size of 100 pre-operative undergoing abdominal surgery with simple random sampling method. The population under study are pre-operative patients. The questionnaire used was framed by the author. The questionnaire was filled by pre-operative abdominal patients. Result: On the basis of this study, 30 females and 38 males was not aware of breathing exercises. No differences are found in male and female patient’s knowledge about breathing exercises. Amongst 100 pre operative patients, 68 patients are unaware about importance of breathing exercises in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Conclusion: The study concluded that maximum number of pre-operative patients lack awareness regarding the importance of breathing exercises in their respective conditions.