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Medical Therapeutic Yoga
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Target Audience
Health professionals.
Objectives
- Define Medical Therapeutic yoga
- Explain how yoga fits into holistic physical therapy practice
- Discuss the evidence regarding yoga’s affect on health
Speaker
Laura Covill, DPT, OCS, COMT
Associate Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Des Moines University
- Doctorate in Physical Therapy, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts
- Masters of Health Science, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Bachelors of Science in Physical Therapy, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
Resources
- Mason H, Vandoni M, deBarbieri G, Codrons E, Ugargol V, Bernardi L. Cardiovascular and respiratory effect of yogic slow breathing in the yoga beginner: What is the best approach. Evidence based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013; 7 pages
- Yoga for Healthy Aging
- Streeter C, Gerbarg P, Saper R, Ciraulo D, Brown R. Effects of yoga on the autonomic nervous system, gamma-aminobutyric acid and allostatsis in epilepsy, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Medical Hypothesis. 2012. 78:571-579.
- Gard T, Noggle J, Park C, Vago D, Wilson A. Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2014
- Abel A, Lloyd L, Williams J. The effects of regular yoga practice on pulmonary function in healthy individuals: A literature review. J Alt Comp Med. 2013. 19(3): 185-190.
- Gomez-Castillo BJ, Hirsch R, Groninger H, Baker K, Cheng MJ, Phillips J, Pollack J, Berger AM. Increasing the number of outpatients receiving spiritual assessment: A pain and palliative care service quality improvement project. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015. 05.012 epub ahead of print
- Buttle H. Measuring a journey without goal: Meditation, spirituality and physiology. Biomed Res Int. 2015, online Jun 7th 2015.
- Arora S, Bhattacharjee J. Modulation of immune responses in stress by Yoga. Int J Yoga 2008 1(2) 45-55.
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Available Credit
- 1.00 CE Contact Hour(s)