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Yoga For Heart Health
October 31, 2008 by Ray Baskerville
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, US, conducted a recent study on yoga with heart patients. The study consisted of an eight-week regimen of yoga which proved safe for patients with chronic heart failure and helped reduce signs of inflammation. When they measured the effects of an eight-week yoga regimen on 19 heart patients they found the exercise routine reduced markers of inflammation associated with heart failure while also improving exercise tolerance and quality of life.
The study found significant differences in biological markers in the blood between patients who completed the yoga therapy and those who received standard medical therapy. Patients on the yoga therapy completed the regimen without any complications and saw a 26 per cent decrease in symptoms on a standard assessment that measures the quality of life in heart patients, compared to a three per cent decrease of the patients on the medical therapy alone.
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That was really interesting, the world nowadays is very busy. People are fully engaged in their business and works, everywhere stress and tension. These Yoga’s are very much effective in improving their health systems. As mentioned, it helps in rehabilitation of injuries too.
Very interesting! I have always been interested in Yoga, and am always telling myself one day I am going to get started. With a history of heart problems in my family, I think I should get started sooner than later. I have a few friends that have been practicing Yoga for about a year now, and they say there is nothing like it physically and also spiritually.