Why the study?
Do yoga programs improve exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease compared with usual care?
Do yoga programs improve exercise capacity and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic disease compared with usual care?
Yoga may serve as a beneficial adjunct to formal rehabilitation programs for improving exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with chronic diseases.
May support yoga as adjunct in chronic disease rehab; leaves open need for definitive RCTs.
Yoga programs have similar designs and components across chronic disease populations. Compared with usual care, yoga resulted in significant improvements in exercise capacity and a mean improvement in HRQL. Yoga programs may be a useful adjunct to formal rehabilitation programs.
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