QOL improvement action of cancer patients with yoga

To everyone that has been damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake, I would the sympathy sincerely. Earliest possible restoration of the affected areas, we wish from the bottom of my heart reconstruction. In addition, support activities We, by DHC is here. "About the support activities to the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster area" You can confirm from. Professional journal of the month of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (electronic version), meta-analysis that examined the QOL improvement effect of cancer patients with yoga (yoga) had been reported. (Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2011; 2011:.. 659876 Epub 2011 Mar 9.) Yoga (yoga) therapy, are classified as complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine, health maintenance and disease prevention, it has been reported widely improvement effect on lifestyle-related diseases. In the present study, in cancer patients, and mental health by yoga, (quality of life) QOL, is working to physical health status has been verified. Specifically, randomized controlled trials that are associated from the main database is extracted, meta-analysis was done. 10 Report the results of RCT is the analysis of, In cancer patients, Compared with the control group, yoga implementation group, Significant improvement in psychological indicators have been found. (Anti-anxiety effect: P = .009, antidepressant action: P = .002, anti-stress effect: P = .006) However, since the quality of the research paper can not be said to be high, it is to be necessary in the future, further verification. For yoga (yoga) therapy, when you look at past data to bird's-eye view, efficacy and safety would be obvious. On the other hand, in the RCT a verification method for the pharmacological intervention, since it would not be sufficient verification,, including the qualitative evaluation method, the construction of evidence is expected.