Contribution of Yoga in medical studies

The Term Yoga is acquired from Sanskrit word “Y­uj” which means the union of soul and body. Many people think that yoga is only a physical exercise where people can turn, twist, stretch, and breath in most easy ways, yoga also has a great contribution to medical studies. Yoga is gaining more attention in substantive clinical research.

Physical benefits of yoga:

•       Increased flexibility

 The first and obvious benefit of yoga is improved flexibility. In starting days, you may not able to touch your toes, and every day you feel a lot of pain and aches, but if you were doing that exercise daily, it makes the impossible to possible latterly you see the gradual loosening. You will notice that the pains and aches were starting disappear.

•        Increase tone and muscle strength

A Strong muscle is not only looking good it does more than that. Strong muscle protects us from diseases like back pain and arthritis. When you build your strength from yoga, balance it with flexibility, but if you just go to the gym and building your strength by lifting heavy weights, you may build strength, but you will lose your flexibility.

•        Perfects posture

Your head is shaped like round, big, oval and heavy. When it is balanced with erect spine, it takes less work for back a neck muscles to support it. Holding your head for at least 8-12 hours a day will tired you, and not only fatigue is the problem Poor posture cause neck, back, and other joint problems.

Psychological benefits of yoga:

•        Yoga improves mental abilities

Yoga helps in discharging stress and tensions, and breathing exercises keep far the person from negative elements. Yoga relieves the worries of person mind. An individual who exercises yoga daily is able to live a better life.

•        Yoga helps with depression and anxiety

Involvement of activities in Yoga like meditation, relaxation, exercise, and socialization, helps in reducing depression and anxiety.

•        Yoga improves memory and boosts concentration

Sometimes in our life, it is difficult to concentrate into our day to day tasks. Now we have an idea how to solve this issue. Exercising yoga daily improves your memory and boost up your concentration.

•        Yoga prevents from mental health conditions during adolescence

Adolescence is a stage when many health problems arise. It is important to get prevent from such type of mental problems.

•        Yoga (An alternative medicine)

Yoga is a curing system of practice and theory; it is a combination of physical postures, breathing exercises and meditation, doing for over five thousand years.

In a survey, it was found that used of alternative and complementary medicine by adults age of 18 years. According to this, Yoga comes in the 5th most used CAM therapy in the United States. Yoga considered as a mind intervention used for reducing the effect of health generalized stress. Yoga is an exercise to calm the mind, spirit and the nervous system of the body.

Yoga mainly performed in sessions conducted in a week, classes, approximately for 30-45 minutes. Yoga used to reduce stress, lower blood pressure and improve coordination, concentration, sleep, digestion and the most common flexibility.

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