Practicing Yoga Accelerate Recovery Stroke Patients

Practicing Yoga Accelerate Recovery Stroke Patients. Practicing yoga is not only beneficial to train the peace of mind and soul. Recent research shows, yoga practice may increase the recovery in stroke patients. Researchers indicate, yoga may be beneficial for people who undergo inpatient rehabilitation stroke botched.

The findings suggest, practicing yoga for eight weeks, especially in stroke patients helps improve balance and flexibility, gait is stronger and faster, as well as increased strength and durability.

This study involved scientists from Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center di Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and IU Bloomington. They observed how the contribution of yoga in helping older people to recover from a stroke.

Each participant (male and female) have completed the occupational therapy after having a stroke and physical therapy before the study done, but they still continue to have problems.

Arlene Schmid, rehabilitation scientists at Roudebush VA Medical Center said the loss of functional strength, flexibility and endurance is something that is common after a stroke, which can cause long-term disability.

"Physicians need a method to manage and improve the ability of stroke patients who had botched a physical disorder," said Schmid, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Science at IUPUI.

From the analysis the researchers found that practicing yoga provides an advantage in functional strength, flexibility and endurance, as well as significant improvements in all areas. Yoga activity may have increased neuromuscular control, which allows for improvement of strength in the affected limb or are not affected.

Tracy Dierks, professor of physical therapy at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said the focus of this research analysis to see how well study participants can re-run after the program.

Dierks reported, after the yoga program each participant showed a better balance and gait more quickly with long strides. However, although the participants were able to run faster, they can not maintain the speed for six minutes.

"These findings have the potential to help the recovery process. Yoga interventions designed to improve balance and we do not really focus on improvement in walking speed," said Dierks.

The results of this study is based on studies of two recent studies to be presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in San Francisco.