Effect on epilepsy by yoga therapy

Today was the first day of the "Joint International Conference 2015 in KOBE" by the Inter-Society Symposium. Japan health promotion Medical Association Annual Meeting, Japan Yoga Therapy Society general meeting, it is Japan Ayurveda Society meeting of the Inter-Society co-hosted. Was that about 1,600 participants. Well, it is a private tail study diary today. In this month of the Cochrane review, studies that examined the effect of by yoga therapy (yoga) to epilepsy (epilepsy), has been reported from the UK group (University of Liverpool). (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015 May 2; 5: CD001524.) Yoga (yoga) is useful for stress reduction and relaxation, The effect can also be detected as an electrophysiological changes, Clinical efficacy has also been suggested. In this study, Effect of yoga for epilepsy has been verified. In particular, From the main medical databases of up to March 2015, Randomized controlled trials II regarding epilepsy and yoga, 50 people (yoga therapy group 18 people, control group 32 persons) data has been extracted. All subjects will have to continue taking anti-epileptic drugs. First, the state of the start of the test time, both groups, is at least three months duration, As Subsequently intervention phase, six months has been performed in two test 5 weeks. As a result of the analysis, Compared to the control group, In yoga therapy enforcement group, 6 months of epileptic seizures there is no state, Epilepsy seizure frequency Reduction of more than 50% of epilepsy seizure frequency For three points, improvements have been found. Also, In yoga therapy enforcement group, Significant improvement of QOL has been recognized. (Satisfaction With Life Scale; SWLS, P <0.05) From the above data, As a complementary therapy for epilepsy, the usefulness of yoga therapy is suggested. It should be noted, because it is a Cochrane review, as usual conclusion is the same, "The validity is suggested, because of the low quality of the RCT, there is a need for further high quality research yada" It has become. For adaptation disease, Yoga therapy, Safety, efficacy, it will be considered a high complementary therapies economical.