Who practices yoga? A systematic review of demographic, health-related, and psychosocial factors associated with yoga practice

Park, Crystal L.; Braun, Tosca D.; Siegel, Tamar

doi:10.1007/s10865-015-9618-5

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“…Those of low socioeconomic status suffer from twofold higher mortality from diabetes [48], and those with lower levels of education are less likely to be participating in yoga [49]. Thus, yoga and/or pranayama may be an appropriate intervention that has been previously untapped in populations with low socioeconomic status.…”

Section: Unfortunately the Interpretation Of Yoga Rcts Is Complicatedmentioning

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Review: Can Yoga Breathing Exercises Improve Glycemic Response and Insulin Sensitivity?

Wilson¹,

Kelly²,

Baker³

2017

J Yoga Phys Ther

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This is the first review of the literature on the effects of slow breathing on glycemic regulation and insulin sensitivity. While many studies have investigated the effects of yoga on individuals with diabetes, few studies have specifically focusing on the isolation of slow breathing as the principle factor in their intervention. While it is difficult to separate the exercise-related effects of yoga, there is considerable evidence that a breathing intervention is capable of increasing insulin sensitivity and improving glycemic regulation. This appears to be true both acutely and chronically in healthy individuals and those with diabetes. Yoga pranayama and the slow breathing practices that are fundamental to yoga represent a relatively low-cost and under-utilized intervention for individuals with conditions related to altered glycemic regulation and insulin sensitivity. More studies should focus on pranayama and slow breathing maneuvers to better clarify the role of respiratory modulation on glucose metabolism and insulin response.

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Section: Unfortunately the Interpretation Of Yoga Rcts Is Complicatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review: Can Yoga Breathing Exercises Improve Glycemic Response and Insulin Sensitivity?

Wilson¹,

Kelly²,

Baker³

2017

J Yoga Phys Ther

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“…28 Similarly, an article comments that yoga effects often become insignificant when factors like education or income are taken into consideration. 29 With reference to complementary medicine, Greco et al 30 provide a detailed treatment of nonspecific factors in healing such as practitioner attitudes, outcome expectancies, and so on, which are scantily addressed by current yoga research.…”

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Prevalence Trends Analysis of Retrospective Cross-Sectional Data: Use of Yoga for Specific Health Conditions and Corresponding Providers Referral

Patwardhan¹

2017

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Research on yoga is witnessing an unprecedented proliferation currently, partly because of great interest in yoga's health utility. However, yoga research does not seem to be sufficiently public health oriented, or its quality corresponding to its quantity. Yoga research is falling short to enable key stakeholders like end users, prescribers, and payers to meaningfully, confidently, and fruitfully answer the questions like: Is it generalizable? Is it standardizable? Which yoga style should be used/ recommended/paid for? Or will it be worth the money? Therefore, it is important to examine the alignment to purpose or value of yoga research from a public health point of view so as to make it more practical. The issues such as lack of clear definition of yoga, wide variation in its dosage, cacophony of lineage-based styles, no data about comparative effectiveness between the yoga components, confounders and biases clouding the evidence regarding its benefits, too little data on longterm adherence, equivocal results about its cost effectiveness, discussions lacking embrace of better methods in research, and absence of a theory of yoga are examined. This is not a detailed discussion of every issue yoga research faces, but a high-level overview of those that have direct practical bearing. In the end, a few pragmatic approaches are offered. The article suggests that yoga-component analysis, development of a theory of yoga, adoption of a health-aligned functional typology of yoga, development and testing of a simple universal basic prototype of yoga intervention, emphasis on research about long-term adherence, and discouragement for mere proof of concept research might make yoga research serve the stakeholders better. It urges the research community to practice "context cognizant scholarship" to disentangle health compatible yoga from its historical-cultural-social body before examining it for health or medical application.

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“…Увеличение физической подготовленно-сти девушек, занимающихся йогой, по указанным показателям, вероятно, связано с улучшением ко-ординации движений, укреплением/увеличением подвижности суставов, увеличением растяжимо-сти связок мышц, увеличением поясничной гиб-кости, редукцией веса, увеличением тренирован-ности мышц, включая мускулатуру, участвую-щую в дыхании [6,12,13,15]. Имеются зарубеж-ные исследования, которые показывают, что за-нятия йогой повышают мотивацию к ведению здорового образа жизни [10,11,14].…”

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Динамика Изменения Физической Подготовленности Студентов Во Время Занятий Физической Культурой И После Их Прекращения

Anishchenko¹,

Бурдюкова²,

Ignatov³

et al. 2017

Курск. науч.-практ. вестн. «Человек и его здоровье»

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1 Кафедра ЮНЕСКО «Здоровый образ жизни -залог успешного развития» Московского государственного медико-стоматологического университета им. А.И. Евдокимова, Москва; 2 фармацевтический колледж «Новые знания», Москва; 3 кафедра общей патологии медико-биологического факультета Российского национального исследовательского медицинского университета им. Н.И. Пирогова, Москва;4 Лосино-Петровская Центральная городская больница, Московская область, Лосино-Петровский E-mail: svetlana_chau@mail.ru В исследовании приняли участие 206 студентов 1-2 курсов МГМСУ им. А.И. Евдокимова в возрасте 17,5±1,5 го-да. Целью настоящего исследования явилось изучение динамики изменения физической подготовленности студентов во время занятий физической культурой в рамках учебной программы и через год после их прекращения при сопо-ставлении двух методик преподавания физической культуры: стандартной и модифицированной, разработанной нами на основе аштанги-йоги. Как показало исследование, выявилась тенденция к улучшению физической подготовленно-сти по ряду показателей (увеличение дальности прыжка с места и уменьшение времени преодоления дистанции в 100 метров) у девушек, занимающихся йогой, по сравнению с девушками, занимающимися физической культурой по тра-диционной методике. Через год после прекращения активного вмешательства мы наблюдали тенденцию к сохранению уровня физической подготовленности у студентов, занимавшихся йогой, по всем исследуемым показателям, в то вре-мя как у студентов, занимавшихся по традиционной методике, выявлялась тенденция к снижению уровня физической подготовленности, что выражалось в ухудшении выполнения изучаемых нормативов ГТО.Ключевые слова: аштанга-йога, физическая культура. The aim of the current research was to study the dynamics of changes in students' physical fitness while being engagied in physical exercises within the curriculum and a year after stopping it through comparing two methodologies of teaching physical culture: standard and modified developed by us on the basis of yoga. As the research showed that girls engaged in yoga tended to improve their physical fitness for a number of indexes (increase in a standing jump distance and time reduction in the 100 meters), as compared to girls engaged in physical culture according to the traditional methodology. A year after stopping the active interference a tendency to maintain the level of fitness in all investigated indexes was exhibited for the students engaged in yoga, while the students taught according to the traditional methodology tended to decrease the level of physical fitness that manifested itself in worse performance of the studied norms of GTO (a complex of physical exercises "Ready for Labour and Defense"). DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN STUDENTS' PHYSICAL FITNESS WHILE PHYSICAL EXERCISING AND AFTER STOPPING IT

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Who practices yoga? A systematic review of demographic, health-related, and psychosocial factors associated with yoga practice

Cited by 129 publications

References 55 publications

Review: Can Yoga Breathing Exercises Improve Glycemic Response and Insulin Sensitivity?

Review: Can Yoga Breathing Exercises Improve Glycemic Response and Insulin Sensitivity?

Prevalence Trends Analysis of Retrospective Cross-Sectional Data: Use of Yoga for Specific Health Conditions and Corresponding Providers Referral

Динамика Изменения Физической Подготовленности Студентов Во Время Занятий Физической Культурой И После Их Прекращения

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