ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2026
Six weeks stretching of lower limbs lowers blood pressure in hypertensive individuals.
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- Exercise Training Across the Hypertensive Heart Disease Continuum: Clinical Evidence and Implications for Prescription.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
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purposePrevious studies on healthy subjects suggest that 6-week passive stretching (PS) lowers blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness by enhancing vascular responsiveness in both stretched and non-stretched arteries. This study investigated whether a similar 6-week PS intervention applied to the lower limbs could elicit similar effects in patients with essential hypertension.
methods24 patients underwent assessments of central arterial stiffness (carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, PWV
resultsNo changes occurred following the 6-week control period. After PS, systolic, diastolic, and mean BP decreased by 4.9(SD4.6)% (P < 0.001, ES = -0.99), 6.9(SD4.9)% (P < 0.001, ES = -1.43), and 3.7(SD6.2)% (P = 0.005, ES = -0.63), respectively. Peak Q̇
conclusionThese findings indicate that 6-week PS effectively reduces blood pressure in hypertensive patients, possibly due to improved vascular responsiveness in the stretched arteries and the combined effect of other mechanisms that cannot be identified individually. However, these benefits dissipate once the intervention is discontinued.
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