BACKGROUND Some patients receiving treatment in conventional health care systems access therapeutic yoga outside their mainstream care to improve cancer symptoms. Given the current knowledge gap around patient preferences and documented experiences of yoga in adult cancer, this study aimed to describe patient-reported benefits, barriers and characteristics of programming for yoga practice durin...

Yoga is part of mainstream culture today, with major medical centers, community healthcare centers, and neighborhood yoga studios offering yoga as a mind-body practice to support health and healing. In the US, over 20 million individuals now practice yoga, with studios found in nearly every state. Although yoga has existed in various forms for around 2500 years, the phenomenon of “yoga for heal...

I n this issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Cheung et al report their findings from a mixed-methods study of adherence to yoga practice for older women with knee osteoarthritis. 1 These women completed an 8-week yoga intervention for osteoarthritis 6 months prior to completing a survey, face-to-face interviews, and vid-eotaping of their practice. Adherence at 6 months was analyzed...

Purpose Young adults are increasingly practicing yoga (Barnes et al., 2008) and yoga interventions have been shown to decrease stress and anxiety. However, little is known about the characteristics of young adults who engage in yoga or the correlates of yoga practice outside of clinical contexts. Our objective was to characterize students who practice yoga and to examine correlates of recent yo...

Bu makalede; Fransız sosyolog ve filozof Michel Foucault’nun ürettiği temel kavramlar olan özne, öznenin ölümü, benlik, iktidar, iktidar türleri (mutlak disipline edici biyo-iktidar), ceza, söylem, bilginin arkeolojisi, soykütük, dispositif, arşiv episteme ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca, ile beden ilişkileri, tahakküm ilişkileri incelenmektedir. değerlendirmeler içinde hem kendisinin post-yapısalcı o...

objectives: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a disease of the central nervous system that results in many symptoms including mobility limitation, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and redacted quality of life. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of 8-weeks aerobic and yoga training on depression, anxiety and quality of life in individuals with ms. methods: 31 women with ms (mean of age...

post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a disorder of emotional and mental stress occurring as an outcome of injury or severe emotional shock. yoga may be useful in decrease of ptsd symptomology. new studies demonstrate that people suffering from ptsd can find actual relief with yoga. yoga decreases stress-induced allosteric load in three reactive systems of stress: the autonomic nervous syste...

This paper deals with the outdoor path loss behavior. The study has been conducted in Mosul city Iraq to fit a suitable propagation model to measured data at 900 MHz and 1800 MHz in urban and suburban environment. The empirical models dealt which are Hata, Cost-231 Hata, international Telecommunication Union (ITU-R), Ericsson and Stanford University Interm (SUI). Path loss accuracy of the fitti...

Yoga is an ancient tradition that in contemporary research has been shown to have positive associations with a broad spectrum of health outcomes. Although promising findings have been highlighted, research exploring the mechanisms underlying the use of yoga for enhancing mental health is still in its infancy. Researchers have shown that yoga can increase levels of mindfulness, which has been sh...