DIET 4360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Insulin Resistance, National Center For Complementary And Integrative Health, Randomized Controlled Trial
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The research is complete with thousands of published studies on yoga as a form of alternative medicine. The most common research studies regarding yoga as a alternative medicine style are regarding yoga in reducing the effects of chronic lower back pain. The benefits of yoga therapy significantly outweigh the risks, as it is a low-risk exercise with many proven benefits. There are also countless meta-analyses including two on a limited search to this past calendar year. Many of the studies have been conducted over a short period of time with a small number of participants, so follow-up studies should be conducted to analyze the long-term effects of yoga as an alternative therapy. This therapy should be recommended to patients with medical conditions such as obesity, t2dm, high blood pressure, and chronic pain, as long as the patients are fully educated on the practice and other forms of treatment.
