Efficacy of brain gym exercises for improving quality of sleep in physiotherapy students

Nikita H. Seth, Chaitanya A. Kulkarni, Waqar M. Naqvi*

Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Human health has suffered a lot as a result of changing times and technological advances. Poor sleep quality affects people of all ages, non- pharmacological solution is increasingly becoming a requirement. Exercises in the brain gym are a good contender in the competition. However, there is still more work to be done before a definitive conclusion can be made about its effectiveness as a intervention. This study aims to evaluate the sleep disturbance and effect of brain gym exercises in improving sleep in the undergraduate physiotherapy students. Here’s idea we suggest to evaluate the sleep disturbance and effect of brain gym exercises as an intervention with duration of practice as 5 days in a week with a section of 25 minutes which is completed in one hour. Insomnia Rating scale is used to get the desired population for giving the intervention and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), which has 86.5% specificity and 89.6% sensitivity. The duration of study will be six months. The study design is pre and post interventional study. In this Hypothesis we aim to assess the efficacy of brain gym exercises for improving quality of sleep and treating mild to moderate insomnia. Brain gym exercises are already proved to improve the attention, memory, cognition and provide relaxation. The expected outcome includes detection of sleep disturbances and improvement in sleep quality which will be evaluated using PSQI. Data analysis will be done using students paired t test and conclusion of the study will be published after the results are analyzed.

Keywords:

Sleep, Brain gym, Insomnia, PSQI, Insomnia Severity scale