Thread by @proskoyoga

Many clinicians & researchers are working hard to integrate science & yoga to enhance & complement contemporary healthcare

We aren’t offering alternative medical approaches

This isn’t pseudoscience

Researchers are dedicated to continually improve quality of yoga research

A good place to start to review some of the current literature:

Handbook of Research on Evidence-Based Perspectives on the Psychophysiology of Yoga and Its Applications

I co-authored a chapter on yoga and pain care:

igi-global.com/chapter/clinic…

Another good paper to review:

Neurophysiological and neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the effects of yoga-based practices

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Seminal paper by Sullivan et al 2017 outlining explanatory model of yoga therapy informed by ethical & philosophical perspectives
philosophical perspectives

researchgate.net/publication/32…

Yoga therapy is informed by these 4 philosophical perspectives: phenomenology, eudaimonia, virtue ethics, & first-person ethical inquiry -

which provide a lens through which to understand how yogic practices support the person’s experience of illness, pain or disability.

Another valuable paper on the role of yoga therapy in current pain care

**Note the consensus def’n of comprehensive integrative pain management from the Pain Care Policy Congress includes addressing the individual’s spiritual or existential health

cdn.ymaws.com/www.iayt.org/r…

Spiritual or existential concerns in pain care do matter - as expressed and directed by people in pain

Yoga therapy can offer a non-dogmatic & secular framework to include an individual’s spiritual or existential concerns that influences their pain, function & QOL

If we want to offer person-centered, person-valued, whole-person care, we include their spiritual health within our scope of practice

Yoga offers a framework for this

We write about it in our book

We hope more colleagues appreciate the value this can add to PT & pain care

To learn more (&please do before making conclusions about this integration) review links above, our book, or DM me for more literature on the topic -

published research in peer reviewed medical journals has been accumulating for a few decades now!

ubcpress.ca/yoga-and-scien…

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