Farah Jindani, Nigel Turner, and Sat Bir S. Khalsa, ‘A Yoga Intervention for Posttraumatic Stress: A Preliminary Randomized Control Trial’, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2015/351746/, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine – eCAM (3 August 2015).
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 351746, 8 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/351746
Reduction symptomology
Yoga may be effective in the reduction of PTSD symptomology. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a Kundalini Yoga (KY) treatment on PTSD symptoms and overall wellbeing. (….) Findings indicate the need for further yoga research to better understand the mechanism of yoga in relation to mental and physical health, gender and ethnic comparisons, and short- and long-term yoga practice for psychiatric conditions.