How Do You Apply Yoga for Rehabilitation?
Using yoga for rehabilitation has a wide range of applications. Yoga is so holistic that whether you need physical, psychological, or social rehabilitation, you can count on yoga to see you through.
Yoga has helped people with recovery from coronary heart disease and stroke. Yoga breathing (pranayama) has also benefited patients with Chronic Obtrusive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Parkinson’s syndrome, etc.
On the psychological front, yoga has helped restore mental balance and psychological function in people who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and even certain psychotic conditions. Yoga has also proven useful for mood disturbance and anxiety in young professionals.
Yoga can also rehabilitate people with certain social disadvantages such as those in jail, elders in community centers, children in remand homes, etc.
