Participants in a recent trial studying the effects of Hatha yoga reported that they had been able to cut back on some of their asthma medication, said according to data presented this week at the American College of Sports Medicine's annual meeting, in Seattle.
Researchers randomly assigned 20 individuals aged 20 to 65 to practice Hatha yoga two-and-a-half hours a week or to join a (non-yoga) control group, for a total of 10 weeks. Overall, scores of individuals participating in the yoga arm of the trial improved an average of almost 43 percent. There were few or no differences between the groups in heart rate variability, oxygen consumption or ventilation.
Steve - conventional medicine's argument about "lack of research" for CAM therapies is beginning to fall on deaf ears as the research begins to mount.
Monday, June 01, 2009
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