Yoga as a Holistic Treatment for Chronic Illnesses: Minimizing Adverse Events and Safety Concerns

Frontiers in Psychology

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Shirley Telles¹  Niranjan Kala¹  Acharya Balkrishna¹ 

[1] Patanjali Research Foundation

关键词: yoga;    chronic illness;    contraindications;    adverse effects;    safety;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00661

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Yoga is widely practiced for its health benefits (Alter, 2004; Singleton, 2010), especially for chronicnon-communicable diseases (Holte and Millis, 2013). The Consortium of Academic Health Centersfor Integrative Medicine located at Michigan, U.S. teaches yoga in most of its branches (Holteand Millis, 2013; https://imconsortium.org/)1. Yoga is one of the top ten complementary healthpractices used by adults in the U.S. where 45 percent of this population have at least one chronicillness (Wu and Green, 2000). Two meta-analyses were carried out to examine yoga in the contextof stroke (Lawrence et al., 2017; Thayabaranathan et al., 2017). The authors of the meta-analysesconcluded that yoga is effective but did not report any adverse event associated with yoga practice(Lawrence et al., 2017; Thayabaranathan et al., 2017). Despite this, safety is important during strokerehabilitation, especially for practices which involve maintaining balance. Similarly, we foundthat in meta-analyses of yoga used for multiple sclerosis or cardiac disease there was a lack ofinformation related to the safety of yoga interventions as adverse events related to yoga practicewere not usually mentioned (Cramer et al., 2014, 2015a). Apart from this, when safety relateddata were reported there were no adverse events (Cramer et al., 2014, 2015b). Safety issues in yogapractice apply to all chronic illnesses.

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