Lessons From India: A Narrative Review of Integrating Yoga Within the US Healthcare System

Yatham, Puja; Chintamaneni, Supritha; Stumbar, Sarah

doi:10.7759/cureus.43466

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“…It emphasizes self-awareness, mindfulness, and achieving balance and harmony. This holistic approach aligns with end-of-life care goals, aiming to address not just physical needs but also emotional and spiritual well-being [2]. This editorial examines the integration of yoga into end-of-life care, highlighting its potential to enhance patients' quality of life, comfort, and dignity.…”

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Enhancing End-of-Life Care Through Yoga

Giridharan,

Shanbhag

2024

Cureus

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This editorial explores the integration of yoga into end-of-life care, emphasizing its potential to enhance the quality of life, comfort, and dignity of patients. Rooted in over 5,000 years of history, yoga’s holistic approach, encompassing physical, mental, and spiritual practices, aligns seamlessly with the goals of end-of-life care. We discuss the benefits of incorporating yoga’s diverse practices, such as physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation, particularly in palliative care settings. These practices offer significant improvements in physical health, psychological well-being, and spiritual fulfillment, especially pertinent for older adults and patients with serious illnesses like HIV and cancer. The philosophical underpinnings of yoga, emphasizing acceptance, harmony, and peace, provide a framework for a dignified and peaceful transition, resonating deeply with the concept of a ‘good death’. However, challenges exist in integrating yoga into end-of-life care, including limited research, cultural and religious considerations, physical and emotional limitations of patients, and logistical constraints within healthcare settings. Ethical considerations are also paramount, focusing on patient-centered approaches, respect for individual beliefs, informed consent, and patient autonomy. The editorial concludes by underscoring the need for further research to evaluate the long-term effects of yoga in end-of-life care and to establish comprehensive ethical guidelines. The integration of yoga offers a multifaceted approach to address not only physical discomfort but also provide emotional and spiritual solace for terminally ill patients, thereby enhancing the overall quality of end-of-life care.

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Enhancing End-of-Life Care Through Yoga

Giridharan,

Shanbhag

2024

Cureus

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“…This improvement is attributed to the decrease in sympathetic activity, which enables bronchodilation through the correction of abnormal breathing patterns and relaxation of inspiratory and expiratory muscle tone. Consequently, lung tone and capacity are effectively enhanced [11,12].…”

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Mindfulness and Movement: Scientifically Exploring the Health Impacts of Yoga

Kuśmierska,

Kuśmierski,

Janik

et al. 2024

J Educ Health Sport

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Introduction: Yoga combines asanas (postures), pranayamas (breathing exercises), and dhyanas (meditation) to improve physical and mental well-being. It's recognized for its substantial health benefits, safety, and cost-effectiveness, leading to calls for its broader integration into healthcare for its therapeutic and preventative potential. This study aims to explore yoga's multifaceted health benefits across physical, mental, and biochemical aspects to support its integration as a holistic health practice. Material and Methods of Research: A literature search was conducted on PubMed and Google Scholar using keywords related to yoga's health benefits to gather insights into its holistic impacts. Results: Yoga benefits musculoskeletal health, enhancing balance, strength, and reducing fracture risks, and improves respiratory function through practices like pranayama. It positively impacts brain health, aiding in cognitive function and potentially slowing neurodegenerative decline. Yoga also offers mental health benefits, reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety, and has antioxidative effects that combat oxidative stress. Additionally, it supports endocrine function, reduces stress, and has anti-inflammatory effects that bolster immune health. Yoga's influence on metabolic health suggests its potential in managing cardiovascular risk factors and diabetes, highlighting its comprehensive health benefits. Conclusion: This study highlights yoga's comprehensive benefits on physical, mental, and biochemical health, demonstrating its efficacy in enhancing musculoskeletal and respiratory function, combating cognitive decline, reducing mental health issues, and offering antioxidative and anti-inflammatory benefits, underscoring its value in modern holistic healthcare.

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“…Today's fast-paced society has made it common for people to work out alone at home. The Physical practised known as yoga dates back about 5,000 years [1,2]. Due to its various health benefits, yoga has become more popular among individuals of all ages [3,4].…”

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Yoga Poses Identification and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning with Media Pipe

S.V,

et al. 2024

Int. Res. J. multidiscip. Technovation

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Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that promotes mental and physical well-being. It's become popular due to the stress of modern life. There are many ways to learn yoga, including studios, private instructors, and online resources. Many students of yoga struggle to identify their own mistakes when learning on their own. This article proposes a new approach for the effective identification and classification of different yoga poses using deep learning algorithms. The Media-pipe library is used to extract user-relevant features from 85 videos featuring 15 yoga practitioners doing 6 different poses. In the study, results from many deep learning models are compared, both with and without extracting features. Several different learning models achieved their best performance when fed skeletonized pictures to a neural network for training. Results from several models are compared in order to demonstrate the beneficial effect of skeletonization. With a validation accuracy of 99.9% on non-skeletonized images, Mobile-Net with CNN outperforms CNN, LSTM and SVM by a wide margin. Skeletonized images are used by the proposed model MobileNet, which achieves an accuracy result of 99.9%.

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Lessons From India: A Narrative Review of Integrating Yoga Within the US Healthcare System

Cited by 5 publications

References 88 publications

Enhancing End-of-Life Care Through Yoga

Enhancing End-of-Life Care Through Yoga

Mindfulness and Movement: Scientifically Exploring the Health Impacts of Yoga

Yoga Poses Identification and Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning with Media Pipe

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