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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2012

Effects of yoga interventions on fatigue: a meta-analysis.

Katja Boehm, Thomas Ostermann, Stefania Milazzo, Arndt Büssing

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Yoga for asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
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  10. Fatigue relief is possible.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2026
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  16. Yoga Therapy in Children with Cystic Fibrosis Decreases Immediate Anxiety and Joint Pain.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016
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  17. Therapeutic Yoga: Symptom Management for Multiple Sclerosis.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2015
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  18. Eurythmy therapy increases specific oscillations of heart rate variability.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015
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  19. [The relationship between Yoga Immersion, psychological well-being and psychiatric symptoms].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katja BoehmCenter for Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58239 Herdecke, Germany.
Thomas Ostermann
Stefania Milazzo
Arndt Büssing
Witten/Herdecke University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background. Researchers aimed at systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing the effectiveness of yoga interventions for fatigue. Methods. PubMed/Medline was searched until January 2012 for controlled clinical studies. Two reviewers independently extracted the data. The methodological quality of the studies was assessed. A meta-analysis was performed. Results. Nineteen clinical studies (total n = 948) were included in this review. Investigated yoga styles included Hatha, Iyengar, Asanas, Patanjali, Sahaja, and Tibetan yoga. Participants were suffering from cancer, multiple sclerosis, dialysis, chronic pancreatitis, fibromyalgia, asthma, or were healthy. Yoga had a small positive effect on fatigue (SMD = 0.27, 59% CI = 0.23-0.31). Seven studies received 4 points on the Jadad score. There were baseline differences in at least 5 studies. Conclusion. Overall, the effects of yoga interventions on fatigue were only small, particularly in cancer patients. Although yoga is generally a safe therapeutic intervention and effective to attenuate other health-related symptoms, this meta-analysis was not able to define the powerful effect of yoga on patients suffering from fatigue. Treatment effects of yoga could be improved in well-designed future studies. According to the GRADE recommendations assessing the overall quality of evidence, there is a moderate effect of the confidence placed in the estimates of the effects discussed here.

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