Comparative effect of Chandra namaskar and Surya namaskar on core endurance, lumbar spine flexibility and hamstring flexibility in asymptomatic young adults: an open label randomized controlled trial.

Yogasanas especially hatha yoga such as surya namaskar have been known to have a significant effect on physical, mental and emotional well being. While chandranamaskar has rising popularity in practice recently there is still paucity of literature on its effects on the body and is still scientifically less explored. It is a sequence of 17 asanas with a calmer and slow flow as compared to suryanamaskar which is a sequence of 12 asanas. This study aims to compare the effect of Chandra namaskar and surya namaskar on core endurance lumbar flexibility and hamstring flexibility. A sample size of 60 will be collected after randomization and after taking participant consent. These will then be divided equally and randomly allocated to 2 groups of interventions chandra namaskar and suryanamaskar respectively. Each interventional group participants will be given warm up respective treatment protocol and cooldown post protocol The Interventions of chandranamaskar and suryanamaskar will be given in 5 repetitions with 5 seconds hold of each asana daily for 2 weeks to respective group participants. Pre and post protocol assessments will be done at 0 weeks and 2 weeks of interventional period for core endurance by Mcgills core endurance tests MMST for Lumbar flexibility and AKE angle for Hamstring flexibility as outcome measures. Statistical analysis will be done from the results. The Shapiro wilk test will be done to see if the data passes normality. If it does then intragroup comparison will be done by paired t test and intergroup comparison will be done by unpaired t test . If the data does not follow normality then the intragroup comparison will be done by Wilcoxson sign rank test and intergroup comparison will be done by the Mann Whitney test. Conclusion will be drawn from the analysis done.