Surveys
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- Highest overall satisfaction score (82%) in a survey of 10,000 UK magazine readers on complementary healing - beating reflexology, massage therapy, osteopathy,
chiropractic and reiki.
- UK Editor of Men's Health Magazine asked a journalist to test 20 complementary health regimens and identify the most effective 'stress buster'. Yoga won.
- According to the American Journal of Cardiology - 80% of patients eligible for bypass avoid surgery by participating in Yoga - part of the post-heart-attack programme
at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.
- New York Presbyterian offers all heart patients undergoing cardiac procedures Yoga during recovery.
- Director of the Yoga Therapy Centre at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital says GP's are increasingly advising patients of the benefits of Yoga in coping with
stress.
- Research shows that it teaches alignment that burns twice the kilojoules we normally use.
- US study of remedies for backache (orthodox and alternative) - Yoga was most effective.
- Pennsylvania (USA) study shows that it significantly increases range of motion, decreases pain and tenderness in people with osteo-arthritis.
- "I have found Ashtanga Yoga to be the most complete and balanced routine of physical training for the development of stamina, strength, and flexibility. Further, its
application as a therapeutic tool in the treatment and recovery from sports related injury is unsurpassed."
- Dr. R. Calvo, MS, MD, President Texas Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery
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