Development of Sham Yoga Poses to Assess the Benefits of Yoga in Future Randomized Controlled Trial Studies.

ABSTRACT: Although research has demonstrated the benefits of yoga to people who have been diagnosed with diabetes or at risk of diabetes, studies have not confirmed these effects can be ascribed to the specific features of the traditional postures, called asanas. Instead, the effects of asanas could be ascribed to the increase in cardiovascular activity and expenditure of energy or to the expectation of health benefits. Therefore, to establish whether asanas are beneficial, researchers need to design a control condition in which participants complete activities, called sham poses, that are equivalent to traditional asanas in physical activity and expectation of benefits. The aim of this research was to design an appropriate suite of sham poses and to demonstrate these poses and traditional asanas ar

SUBMITTER: Ramamoorthi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7915153 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature