Synthesis Essay
Synthesis
In each of the 9 studies there seems to be a prevailing issue with multiple forms of yoga therapy being practiced by the patients. Yoga is in actuality a broad term used to encompass a wide range of activities including pranaayam, saanas and meditation (Sharma & Haider 2012). Within these subgroups, there are multiple levels of practice (Posadzki et al. 2014). There are thousands styles of aasana practice such as Iyengar, Kundalini, Hatha, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa. Also, there are thousands of breathing techniques and multiple forms of meditation that include visualization, imagery and even mantra chanting (Chu et al. 2016). All of the studies pointed out that multiple styles of yoga were used by patients in each study.
In addition, …show more content…
Yoga was found to reduce BP and was also associated with other health benefits such as reducing blood glucose level, cholesterol level, body weight and high-risk cardiovascular disease. However, the generalizability of these outcomes were mitigated by the variability of yoga styles, duration of interventions, blood pressure screening methods, short-term interventions and inadequate description of demographical information. The lack of generalizability and high degree of variability are the limiting factors in making yoga therapy an evidenced-based practice that can be prescribed as a standardized treatment of …show more content…
It would also be also difficult for a provider to develop a definitive plan of care for a patient considering the assorted forms yoga therapy examined. This resulted in the final conclusion that further research should be conducted using a regulated methodology outlined in the recommendations. The proposed streamlining of future studies may conclude in a concrete evidenced based yoga treatment module that may be used to formulate clinical guidelines so that healthcare providers may be able to prescribe yoga therapy and eventually bill insurance
In each of the 9 studies there seems to be a prevailing issue with multiple forms of yoga therapy being practiced by the patients. Yoga is in actuality a broad term used to encompass a wide range of activities including pranaayam, saanas and meditation (Sharma & Haider 2012). Within these subgroups, there are multiple levels of practice (Posadzki et al. 2014). There are thousands styles of aasana practice such as Iyengar, Kundalini, Hatha, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa. Also, there are thousands of breathing techniques and multiple forms of meditation that include visualization, imagery and even mantra chanting (Chu et al. 2016). All of the studies pointed out that multiple styles of yoga were used by patients in each study.
In addition, …show more content…
Yoga was found to reduce BP and was also associated with other health benefits such as reducing blood glucose level, cholesterol level, body weight and high-risk cardiovascular disease. However, the generalizability of these outcomes were mitigated by the variability of yoga styles, duration of interventions, blood pressure screening methods, short-term interventions and inadequate description of demographical information. The lack of generalizability and high degree of variability are the limiting factors in making yoga therapy an evidenced-based practice that can be prescribed as a standardized treatment of …show more content…
It would also be also difficult for a provider to develop a definitive plan of care for a patient considering the assorted forms yoga therapy examined. This resulted in the final conclusion that further research should be conducted using a regulated methodology outlined in the recommendations. The proposed streamlining of future studies may conclude in a concrete evidenced based yoga treatment module that may be used to formulate clinical guidelines so that healthcare providers may be able to prescribe yoga therapy and eventually bill insurance