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ReviewOpen access journal of sports medicine2012

Is yoga a suitable treatment for rheumatoid arthritis: current opinion.

Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh

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Review in Open access journal of sports medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The Indian journal of medical research · 2022
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  4. Potential Role of Yoga Intervention in the Management of Chronic Non-malignant Pain.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shirley TellesPatanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, India.
Nilkamal Singh

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We reviewed published literature regarding the use of yoga for managing rheumatoid arthritis to determine whether adequate evidence exists to suggest its usefulness as a therapy. A search for previous studies involving yoga and rheumatoid arthritis in PubMed yielded eight reports. These studies reported the benefits of yoga in the physical and mental health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting that yoga is a useful add-on therapy for RA patients. However, all studies showed limitations with respect to sample size, study design, description and duration of yoga intervention, and assessment tools and statistical methods used. Additionally, the studies did not attempt to understand the mechanisms underlying observed benefits. Hence, evidence suggests a definite role of yoga in RA improvement, reducing pain, improving function, and creating a positive mental state. However, detailed analysis and additional studies are necessary to verify these observations.

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bibliographic database searchPubMedrheumatoid arthritisyoga

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PMID24198591
PMCPMC3781903

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