Unity Union: Yoga proved to heal patients suffering of heart infarct

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Yoga proved to heal patients suffering of heart infarct

Today I listened to swedish public service radio channel P1 where they made a case on a studie from the hospital of Danderyd.

60 patients where devided to two groups. One group got prescribed with traditional western rehabilitation doing gymnastic exercise twice a week and the other group got prescribed with a CD with simple 30-40 minute yoga excersice to do at home.
During the 12 week test period blood count, levels of stress hormons and percieved life quality was measured of both groups. The results now shows that yoga was with out doubt the best working method. Both blood pressure and stress levels where lower in the yoga group than in the group that followed the western rehabilitation method. Blood sugar levels where equal for both groups. And even thou the patients of the yoga group where sceptical in the beginning they all reported higher levels of life quality than the other group.

The medical yoga doctor Göran Boll commented on this studie by saying that the deep relaxation achived by yoga breathing technics and exercises are helping the body to strengthen the immune system and the bodys self healing capabilities.
Göran Boll says that almost all of our modern western illnesses are products of living with to much stress.
-We does'nt seem to have time to listen to our own warning signals and keeps going until we crash. We get sleep troubles, migrain, high blood pressure levels, heart decise and brind-fag. If we then can activate the relaxation system and learn to listen to our bodys we will surely feel bether, he says.

Yoga was developed for 5000 years in India before it started to spread around the world in the 60's. Since then yoga has been developed in different directions. Medical yoga in this studie was based on simple Kundalini yoga exercises and focuses on deep breathing.

Medical yoga is also used in cases of: