A new study has found that people who suffer the condition that causes pain all through the body could relieve their symptoms by practicing yoga. The condition called FM (Fibromyalgia) is a chaos which causes fatigue and extensive musculoskeletal pain, which is believed to affect millions of adults worldwide.
The sufferers struggle with muscles aching and medication therapies are only thirty percent effectual in easing the symptoms of the condition. The research team from Oregon Health & Science University investigated if sufferers of FM practicing yoga along with their normal treatment showed more improvement compared to control group of sufferers.
The research team carried out a study trail on women because eighty percent of FM sufferers are women. In study trail twenty-five female participants take part in Yoga Awareness program while twenty eight received standard treatment. Pain, fatigue, emotional distress and sleep disturbance were addressed to be tackled by yoga.
Each session of yoga program include gentle stretching postures, breathing techniques and mindfulness meditation. Then both the groups were evaluated for FM symptoms along with physical tests. The results showed that women who followed yoga program showed far greater improvement in their symptoms and moods.
Though yoga has been practiced for millennia, merely newly researchers have commenced to show effects of yoga on people suffering importunate pain. The results of the pilot study offer promising preliminary support for the beneficial effects of yoga in patients with FM, explained study leader Dr James Carson.
He added that the findings proposed that yoga intercession escorted to an advantageous move in how sufferers cope with pain including larger use of adaptive pain handling policies like positive reassessment, reported the study published in the journal Pain.