Journal of Yoga & Physical Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2157-7595
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2157-7595
+44 1478 350008
Kalpana Ojha
Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan,
Jaipur-302 004
India
Case Report
A Case Study: Investigation of Yoga?s Potential to Treat Breast Cancer Survivors Facing Cancer Related Fatigue
Author(s): Kalpana Ojha, Ravi Kumar Goyal, S. Sharma, Prof. Subhasini Sharma and Nivideta YadavKalpana Ojha, Ravi Kumar Goyal, S. Sharma, Prof. Subhasini Sharma and Nivideta Yadav
Purpose of this study was to investigate efficiency of Yoga as an adjuvant therapy for breast cancer survivors who faced Cancer Related Fatigue, after post treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy etc. We prepared a randomized trial with yoga in Stan Cancer Rogi Seva Kendra, Radiotherapy Dept, SMS Hospital, Jaipur (India) in collaboration with the “Koshish” and the “Green Earth Foundation”. The authors of the manuscript are associated with both of them. We organized Yoga classes for 5 days in a week for two months (Monday to Friday) non stop. Among 93 of the participants, 62 were allowed to attend Yoga sessions and 31 were kept as control. There was a slow decrease in depressive symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) for experimental group of participants that were age above fifty from first intervention to second intervention of the sessi.. View More»