ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2022
Potential Role of Yoga Intervention in the Management of Chronic Non-malignant Pain.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Yoga Nidra and Pain: A between-, within-Group Meta-Analysis and Dose Response Meta-Regression.Complementary medicine research · 2025Pooled it
- Pain-focused psychological interventions in women with endometriosis: A systematic review.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2023Pooled it
- Trial
- Effectiveness of Eight Part Vajra Gong in alleviating pain and enhancing quality of life among patients with osteoarthritis: a retrospective study.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- An Updated Review on the Complex Association of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Depression.Current cardiology reviews · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of a yoga-based intervention on academic burnout syndrome in medical students: A pilot study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Beyond conventional care: exploring complementary and alternative medicine for autoimmune disorders.Reumatologia · 2025Review
- Article
- Yoga as a complementary therapy in neuropathic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Review
- Tryptophan and Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites and Psychoneurological Symptoms Among Breast Cancer Survivors.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2023Article
- Yoga and pain: A mind-body complex system.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Characteristics of patients who use yoga for pain management in Indian yoga and naturopathy settings: a retrospective review of electronic medical records.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Yoga Module Development and Validation for Sickle Cell Disease.International journal of yogaArticle
- Persistent Relief: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Trial Comparing Yoga to Pain Education for Patients With Persistent Post-Surgical Pain.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Integrating Adjunct Yoga Therapy into Hemodialysis Care: A Feasibility Pilot Study for Improving Psychological Well-being in End-stage Kidney Disease Patients.International journal of yogaArticle
- Interoception-Based Yoga for Chronic Pain: A Pilot Feasibility Study.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Pain is an unpleasant and upsetting experience. Persistent pain has an impact on an individual's quality of life which causes stress and mood disorders. There are currently no pain-relieving techniques available that can eliminate pain and offer relief without causing any adverse effects. These factors draw attention to traditional treatments like yoga and meditation, which can reduce biological stress and hence increase immunity, as well as alleviate the psychological and emotional suffering produced by pain. Yoga reduces the stress response and the pain cascade via the downregulation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and vagal stimulation. Yoga is a cost-effective growing health practice that, unlike pharmaceuticals, has no side effects and can help patients stay in remission for longer periods of time with fewer relapses. Yoga not only reduces stress and depression severity but also improves functional status and reduces pain perception. This article highlights the impact of yoga on pain management and on a malfunctioning immune system, which leads to improved health, pain reduction, disease management, and improvement in overall quality of life.
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