Titre : Yoga

Yoga : Questions médicales fréquentes

Questions fréquentes et termes MeSH associés

Diagnostic 2

#1

Comment évaluer le niveau de pratique du yoga ?

Le niveau de pratique peut être évalué par l'expérience, la régularité et la maîtrise des postures.
Yoga Évaluation de la santé
#2

Quels tests peuvent aider à diagnostiquer des problèmes liés au yoga ?

Des évaluations physiques et des questionnaires sur la flexibilité et la force musculaire peuvent être utiles.
Yoga Tests de flexibilité

Symptômes 2

#1

Quels symptômes peuvent indiquer une mauvaise pratique du yoga ?

Des douleurs articulaires, des tensions musculaires ou des blessures peuvent survenir.
Yoga Douleur musculaire
#2

Le yoga peut-il aggraver des problèmes de santé ?

Oui, une pratique inappropriée peut aggraver des conditions comme l'arthrite ou les blessures.
Yoga Arthrite

Prévention 2

#1

Comment le yoga peut-il prévenir les blessures ?

Le yoga améliore la flexibilité, la force et la conscience corporelle, réduisant ainsi les blessures.
Yoga Prévention des blessures
#2

Le yoga aide-t-il à prévenir le stress ?

Oui, le yoga favorise la relaxation et la gestion du stress par la méditation et la respiration.
Yoga Gestion du stress

Traitements 2

#1

Le yoga peut-il être utilisé comme traitement complémentaire ?

Oui, le yoga est souvent utilisé comme thérapie complémentaire pour le stress et l'anxiété.
Yoga Thérapies complémentaires
#2

Quels types de yoga sont recommandés pour la réhabilitation ?

Le yoga doux, comme le Hatha ou le Yin, est souvent recommandé pour la réhabilitation.
Yoga Réhabilitation

Complications 2

#1

Quelles complications peuvent survenir avec le yoga ?

Des blessures musculaires, des douleurs lombaires ou des problèmes de circulation peuvent survenir.
Yoga Complications
#2

Le yoga peut-il provoquer des vertiges ?

Oui, certaines postures inversées peuvent provoquer des vertiges chez certaines personnes.
Yoga Vertiges

Facteurs de risque 2

#1

Qui est à risque de blessures en pratiquant le yoga ?

Les débutants, les personnes avec des antécédents de blessures ou des problèmes de santé sont à risque.
Yoga Facteurs de risque
#2

Le surpoids est-il un facteur de risque pour le yoga ?

Oui, le surpoids peut augmenter le risque de blessures lors de la pratique de certaines postures.
Yoga Obésité
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Auteurs principaux

Shaked Kovalsky

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Badi Hasisi

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Noam Haviv

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Ashkelon Academic College, Israel.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Ety Elisha

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Amit Singh

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Yoga & Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, (S-VYASA) Yoga University, Prashanti Kutiram, Jigani Hobli, Anekal Taluk, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560019, India.

Shirley Telles

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, India.

Acharya Balkrishna

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, India.

Lisa A Uebelacker

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School at Brown University.
  • Butler Hospital.

Anjali Mangesh Joshi

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Psycho-Oncology, HCG NCHRI Cancer Center, Nagpur 440026, Maharashtra, India.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Erin Vinoski Thomas

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Jennifer B Webb

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Psychological Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Stephanie J Sohl

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • is a Research Assistant; is an Advanced Fellow; is a Health Science Specialist; and is Associate Director for Education and Evaluation; all at US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System in Massachusetts. is a Assistant Professor, and is a Professor and Director of Faculty Well-Being & Resilience, both at the Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston Salem, North Carolina. is Chief of Implementation Science at the VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and a Professor and Robert Luchi, MD Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Rachel Weiskittle is a Research Fellow and Jennifer Moye is a Professor, both at the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Suzanne C Danhauer

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • is a Research Assistant; is an Advanced Fellow; is a Health Science Specialist; and is Associate Director for Education and Evaluation; all at US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System in Massachusetts. is a Assistant Professor, and is a Professor and Director of Faculty Well-Being & Resilience, both at the Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston Salem, North Carolina. is Chief of Implementation Science at the VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and a Professor and Robert Luchi, MD Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Rachel Weiskittle is a Research Fellow and Jennifer Moye is a Professor, both at the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Kaushik Chattopadhyay

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Bethany Forseth

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, College of Nursing, 1921 E. Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States. Electronic address: bforseth@uwm.edu.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Nurcan Kirca

2 publications dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Publications dans "Yoga" :

Jenny L Mace

1 publication dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Centre for Animal Welfare, The University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK.
Publications dans "Yoga" :
  • Yoga,
    Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 2020-03-13

Steven P McCulloch

1 publication dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Centre for Animal Welfare, The University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK.
Publications dans "Yoga" :
  • Yoga,
    Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 2020-03-13

Betsy Todd

1 publication dans cette catégorie

Publications dans "Yoga" :

Jillian Lacasse

1 publication dans cette catégorie

Affiliations :
  • Department of Kinesiology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada.

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Incorporation of yoga in pharmacy education.

The well-being of pharmacists is critical to support personal and professional health. Identifying and integrating a variety of practices that promote wellness is prudent for schools/colleges of pharm... The objective was to provide a summary of various strategies incorporating yoga in pharmacy professional curricula as well as detail various approaches to integrating yoga into pharmacy curricula. Lit... Ten articles about yoga awareness, knowledge, beliefs, and benefits in professional pharmacy curricula were identified. Improvement in mental health and decreased stress were recognized as benefits. W... Schools of pharmacy can consider incorporation of yoga practice into curricula as a tool to promote well-being and resiliency....

Exercise intensity of real-time remotely delivered yoga via videoconferencing: Comparison with in-person yoga.

Yoga has been studied as a rehabilitation option, but barriers to attendance remain. Videoconferencing, where participants can receive online, real-time instruction and supervision, may reduce the bar... Healthy yoga beginners (n = 11) and yoga practitioners (n = 11) performed yoga (Sun Salutation) consisting of 12 physical postures in real-time remotely delivered via videoconferencing and in-person (... Twenty-two participants (mean age ± standard deviation, 47.2 ± 10.8 years) completed the study. There were no significant differences in METs between RDY and IPY (5.0 ± 0.5, 5.0 ± 0.7, respectively, P... The exercise intensity of RDY is equivalent to IPY regardless of proficiency with no adverse events in RDY occurring in this study....

Effect of yoga in medical students to reduce the level of depression, anxiety, and stress: pilot study (Goodbye Stress with Yoga GSY).

Globally medical students reported high level of stress sensitivity, stress intensity and depression or anxiety. Yoga is proven to be a one of the most effective anxiolytic tools. The current study sp... Twenty-eight medical students from the University of Pécs, with an average age of 23.54 ± 4.36 years and a BMI of 22.42 ± 3.42 kg/m... The intervention group exhibited a mean and standard deviation of depression pre- and post-yoga 10.14 ± 10.60 and 7.21 ± 8.56, similarly the values for anxiety were 8.57 ± 10.09 and 5.51 ± 7.42, and f... Introduction of Yoga Intervention significantly decreased in levels of depression and anxiety. By this current study we were able to confirm the necessity of Yoga Intervention with our primary survey....

Exploring the uses of yoga nidra: An integrative review.

The purpose of this paper was to review and synthesize published research articles that have utilized yoga nidra as an intervention.... Yoga nidra is a form of guided meditation that has emerged in the literature in the past two decades as an intervention for a variety of medical conditions such as stress and mental health. It differs... The integrative review methodology by Whittemore and Knafl (2005) provided the framework for this review.... The databases CINAHL, PubMed, SCOPUS, and PsycINFO were used to search for articles. Inclusion criteria consisted of journal articles in English with no limitations on dates of publication. Studies we... The 29 studies that were reviewed consisted of 12 randomized controlled trials, 13 quasi-experimental studies, 3 mixed-methods studies, and 1 qualitative study. Outcome variables were categorized acco... Yoga nidra was found to be effective in most of these studies. However, there was some clinical heterogeneity in the sample populations and intervention session lengths, frequencies, and durations, ma... Yoga nidra has the potential to be a useful, noninvasive, nonpharmacologic treatment or adjunct for a variety of conditions, particularly mental health....

Efficacy of Yoga for COVID-19 Stress Prophylaxis.

The global COVID-19 lockdown restricted daily routines due to the psychological fear of infection, which imposed an unknown universal threat on female college students, affecting physiological health ... In a randomized controlled trial (n = 74, age = 21.65 [4.05] y), a study was conducted with a well-conceptualized yogic module for 5 days/week for 3 months (40 min daily in the morning) among yogic vo... After 3 months of yogic practice, significant reduction (P < .05) in heart rate (d = 0.64, meandiff = 5.43), systolic blood pressure (d = 0.59, meandiff = 5.32), cortisol (d = 0.59, meandiff = 6.354),... Our findings suggest that a 3-month well-conceptualized yogic intervention during COVID-19 may be considered as a prophylactic tool to improve female college students' universal psychophysiological he...

A Parent-child yoga intervention for reducing attention deficits in children with congenital heart disease: the Yoga for Little Hearts Feasibility Study Protocol.

Preschoolers and school-aged children with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at higher risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with the general population. To this day, no ra... This is a single-blind, two-centre, two-arm trial during which 24 children with CHD and their parents will be randomly assigned to (1) a parent-child yoga intervention in addition to standard clinical... Ethical approval has been obtained by the Research Ethics Board of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital. The findings will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and presented to ... NCT05997680....

Efficacy of yoga for caregivers of persons with dementia: An integrative review.

The progressive nature of dementia leaves the person vulnerable and dependent on others for care. While persons with dementia often have better outcomes when cared for at home, it can lead to personal... The aim of this review was to synthesise available empirical research related to the role of yoga on the biopsychosocial health outcomes for caregivers of persons with dementia population.... A systematic search of the databases Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Plus, Medline and PsychINFO was done using the terms "yoga" AND "caregivers or family members or informal caregivers" AND "dementi... Four studies were included for this review: two randomised controlled trials, a non-randomised intervention study with a waitlist and a pilot cohort study. Three studies focused on informal caregivers...

Effect of Yoga on Frailty in Older Adults : A Systematic Review.

Yoga, a multicomponent mind-body practice, improves several domains of physical and psychological health and may affect frailty in older adults.... To evaluate the available trial evidence on the effect of yoga-based interventions on frailty in older adults.... MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central from their inception to 12 December 2022.... Randomized controlled trials evaluating the effect of yoga-based interventions, including at least 1 session of physical postures, on a validated frailty scale or single-item markers of frailty in adu... Two authors independently screened articles and extracted data; 1 author assessed risk of bias with review from a second author. Disagreements were resolved through consensus and as-needed input from ... Thirty-three studies (... Heterogeneity in study design and yoga style, small sample sizes, and reporting deficiencies leading to concerns for selection bias.... Yoga may affect frailty markers that are associated with clinically meaningful outcomes in older adult populations but may not offer benefit over active interventions (for example, exercise).... None. (PROSPERO: CRD42020130303)....