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(Medical-NewsWire.com, August 23, 2012 ) San Francisco, CA -- A study organized by the American Heart Association revealed that group yoga can create positive changes in people who have been through a stroke. The yoga improves their balance after the rehabilitative care in hospital comes to an end.
Experts call yoga exercises beneficial as it creates harmony and balance by uniting the body, mind and breath. It helps stroke survivors to regain a certain percentage of normal abilities in walking and communicating with others.
Strokes occur in people when the blood flow of the brain is interrupted. This interruption in blood flow can be caused by several different reasons. After suffering a stroke people can become disabled on a permanent basis; the degree of disability depends on the severity of the stroke and on which part of the brain is affected the most.
The loss of balance is the most common disability resulting from a stroke and group yoga can help to restore their balance to some extent.
Dr. Arlene Schmid, a rehabilitation research scientist at Indiana University said, "For people with chronic stroke, something like yoga in a group environment is cost-effective and appears to improve motor function and balance.”
However, Schmid is of the opinion that after getting formal treatment for six months to one year the patient’s brain can still change. The change in a patients’ brain cannot be measured if the patient is discharged from formal medical care after that time period.
Schmid said, “The problem is the health-care system is not necessarily willing to pay for that change.”
Dr. John Carment, an assistant professor of geriatrics at OU School of Community Medicine, did a study on 20 to 30 older but healthy people and observed the changes that occurred in them resulting from tai chi, yoga and strength training exercises. He came across the result that yoga and tai chi improved their balance.
However, Rebecca Ward, who teaches at The Yoga Room in Brookside revealed an alarming fact about yoga; it can also create more harm if done in the wrong way.
She stated, “Yoga done right can heal, but performed wrong is really harmful. It affects you on all levels. It can affect your posture, your circulatory system, it works on the autonomic nervous system, your heart rate and the quality of your heart beat.”
Ward also made it clear that the type of yoga that is beneficial for getting desired improvements depends on the health problems of each individual.
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