Yoga as a Therapeutic Intervention

Yoga is a safe and inexpensive intervention. There are an increasing number of clinical trials of yoga research. With the development of evidence based medicine, there are an increasing number of systematic reviews and meta-analysis summarizing effects of yoga with disease. It is difficult for clinicians or patients to find useful information about yoga therapy because of so many systematic reviews and meta-analysis which summarize effects of yoga with disease. Therefore, this review summarizes systematic reviews and meta-analysis of yoga therapy. This review found that yoga shows benefits in cardiovascular disease, knee osteoarthritis, metabolic syndrome, asthma, breast cancer, chronic heart failure, chronic low back pain, chronic neck pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, dementia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, menopausal symptoms and schizophrenia.