Practicing Yoga Accelerate Recovery Of Stroke Patients

Practicing yoga is not only beneficial to train peace of mind and soul. The latest research shows, the practice of yoga can improve the recovery turned out to stroke patients. Researchers indicate, yoga may be helpful for people undergoing inpatient rehabilitation stroke pascaserangan. The findings show, practicing yoga for eight weeks in particular on stroke patients helps increase flexibility, balance and gait are stronger and faster, as well as increased strength and durability.

This research involves scientists from the Richard l. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the IU Bloomington. They observe how yoga contribution in helping elderly people to recover from stroke.

Each of the participants (men and women) have completed the post-graduate occupational therapy suffered a stroke and physical therapy before the study was conducted, but they still continue to have the disorder.

Arlene Schmid, scientists at the Roudebush VA Medical Rehabilitation Center, said the loss of functional strength, flexibility and endurance is seseuatu a common after stroke, which can lead to long-term disability.

"Doctors need methods to manage and improve the ability of pascaserangan patients undergoing physical disorders stroke," said Schmid, Assistant Professor of occupational therapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Science at IUPUI.

From the results of the analysis, the researchers found practicing yoga gives you an advantage in the functional strength, flexibility and endurance, as well as the existence of a significant improvement in all areas. Yoga may have increased activity monitoring neuromuscular, which allows for improved strength on the limb affected or not affected.

Tracy Dierks, Professor of physical therapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, reveal, the focus of this research analysis to see how well participants could study back running after following the program.

Dierks reported, after a yoga program each participant shows better balance and gait are faster with the step length. But, while the participants were able to run faster, they cannot maintain speed for six minutes.

"These findings have the potential to help the process of recovery. Yoga intervention designed to improve balance and we don't really focus on walking speed increases, "says Dierks.

The results of this research was based on studies of two recent studies that will be presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in San Francisco.

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