Key result
Slow music following submaximal exercise significantly improved heart rate recovery (P=0.002) and rating of perceived exertion recovery (P=0.008) compared to fast or no music in hypertensive patients.
Why the study?
Hypertensive individuals tend to have autonomic dysfunction, and complimentary therapy like music following exercise may improve autonomic recovery.
Does differential music tempo improve post-exercise cardiovascular recovery parameters in hypertensive individuals?
RCT (n=30)
randomly allocated
Does differential music tempo improve post-exercise cardiovascular recovery parameters in hypertensive individuals?
p-value: p=0.002 for HRR, 0.008 for RPER
Listening to slow music accelerates post-exercise heart rate and perceived exertion recovery in hypertensive individuals compared to fast or no music.
Slow music may aid post-exercise recovery in hypertension; leaves open clinical adoption pending larger trials.
Hypertensive individuals tend to have autonomic dysfunction indicated by sympathetic dominance or delayed parasympathetic reactivation. A complimentary therapy such as music following exercise is considered to be beneficial in improving autonomic recovery. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of differential music tempo on post-exercise cardiovascular recovery parameters in hypertensive individuals. Thirty hypertensive individuals were recruited for the present study which were randomly allocated to no music (n=10), slow music (n=10) and fast music (n=10) group. Participants in all three groups were subjected to submaximal exercise bout by Harvard step test. The cardiovascular recovery parameters i.e. heart rate recovery (HRR), blood pressure recovery (BPR) and rating of perceived exertion recovery (RPER) were assessed in all three groups after 1 min, 2 min and 3 min following termination of exercise. A significant decline was observed in HRR ( P =0.002) and RPER ( P =0.008) following exercise in slow music group as compared to fast and no music while no significant differences were observed in BPR between the three groups. The study concluded that music accelerates post-exercise recovery and slow music has greater effect as compared to fast or no music. These findings may have potential implications in the cardiovascular recovery dynamics in hypertensive individuals participating in submaximal exercise.
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Siddiqui et al. (2020) conducted an RCT in Hypertension (n=30). Slow music vs. Fast music and no music was evaluated on Heart rate recovery (HRR), blood pressure recovery (BPR) and rating of perceived exertion recovery (RPER) (p=0.002 for HRR, 0.008 for RPER). Slow music following submaximal exercise significantly improved heart rate recovery (P=0.002) and rating of perceived exertion recovery (P=0.008) compared to fast or no music in hypertensive patients.
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