Yoga can make cancer patients sleep better
Yoga is being seen as a low-risk and low-cost treatment for sufferers of cancer-fatigue
Yoga can dramatically boost the well-being of cancer patients, research reveals. Many people are diagnosed with the disease every year. It can be an extremely difficult disease to live with on a daily basis.
But now experts say new evidence shows that patients will sleep better and suffer less pain and fatigue if they practise yoga. New studies presented at the world’s largest cancer conference found just four weeks of practising yoga, including gentle hatha yoga, can improve well-being and reduce tiredness.
The first study on 321 cancer patients examined the impact of yoga on cancer-related fatigue and sleep. Patients in the study, 77 per cent of whom had breast cancer, were split into two groups, with one receiving usual care and the other following a four-week yoga programme.
The yoga course was a gentle hatha programme with poses, breathing exercises and mindfulness. Women were invited to take part for 75 minutes twice a week for four weeks. Some 86 per cent attended at least five of the eight classes.
The results showed that yoga significantly improved both fatigue and sleep quality, with around a fifth of the effect on fatigue due to better sleep.
But 37 per cent of improvement in fatigue was actually put down to less daytime napping. A researcher who worked on the study, said: “One of the most striking results was that the yoga group felt less fatigued but actually spent less time asleep.
“Cancer-related fatigue is not like other fatigue that you can sleep off or rest away. Our data suggests that by adding yoga practice into their daily lives it helped them to remain more active and sleep less.”
She said doctors should prescribe yoga as a “low-risk, low-cost treatment” to all cancer patients with cancer-related fatigue. “We would like them to prescribe gentle hatha yoga.” She said sleep disruption affects 30 per cent to 90 per cent of cancer patients, while cancer fatigue affects 60 per cent to 100 per cent.
The second study on 850 women with early-stage breast cancer saw half the group encouraged to do yoga while the other half were given usual care.
After 18 to 22 months, women in the yoga group were experiencing fewer side-effects of treatment (44 per cent versus 56 per cent), experienced lower fatigue and said they were suffering less detriment to their general activity (41 per cent versus 59 per cent). They also had lower levels of pain.
Researcher said: “Yoga showed numerically better scores in all aspects of quality of life, which reached statistical significance in domains related to fatigue, emotional score and pain score.
“In overall quality of life, 52 per cent women on yoga showed an improvement from baseline compared to 42 per cent in the control arm.” She said 72 per cent of women reported worsening of pain in the usual care group, while the figure was only 28 per cent in the yoga group.
A researcher said: “This intriguing research suggests that yoga could help alleviate some of the very difficult side-effects following breast cancer treatment, such as pain, fatigue and sleep deprivation.”
A nurse, said: “Fatigue is a problem for many cancer survivors and it can be difficult to know how best to help because it affects people differently. Research like this is important and may help health professionals assist survivors and improve their quality of life.”
Yoga could help alleviate some of the very difficult side-effects following breast cancer treatment, such as fatigue and sleep deprivation.
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Yoga can dramatically boost the well-being of cancer patients, research reveals. Many people are diagnosed with the disease every year. It can be an extremely difficult disease to live with on a daily basis.
But now experts say new evidence shows that patients will sleep better and suffer less pain and fatigue if they practise yoga. New studies presented at the world’s largest cancer conference found just four weeks of practising yoga, including gentle hatha yoga, can improve well-being and reduce tiredness.
The first study on 321 cancer patients examined the impact of yoga on cancer-related fatigue and sleep. Patients in the study, 77 per cent of whom had breast cancer, were split into two groups, with one receiving usual care and the other following a four-week yoga programme.
The yoga course was a gentle hatha programme with poses, breathing exercises and mindfulness. Women were invited to take part for 75 minutes twice a week for four weeks. Some 86 per cent attended at least five of the eight classes.
The results showed that yoga significantly improved both fatigue and sleep quality, with around a fifth of the effect on fatigue due to better sleep.
But 37 per cent of improvement in fatigue was actually put down to less daytime napping. A researcher who worked on the study, said: “One of the most striking results was that the yoga group felt less fatigued but actually spent less time asleep.
“Cancer-related fatigue is not like other fatigue that you can sleep off or rest away. Our data suggests that by adding yoga practice into their daily lives it helped them to remain more active and sleep less.”
She said doctors should prescribe yoga as a “low-risk, low-cost treatment” to all cancer patients with cancer-related fatigue. “We would like them to prescribe gentle hatha yoga.” She said sleep disruption affects 30 per cent to 90 per cent of cancer patients, while cancer fatigue affects 60 per cent to 100 per cent.
The second study on 850 women with early-stage breast cancer saw half the group encouraged to do yoga while the other half were given usual care.
After 18 to 22 months, women in the yoga group were experiencing fewer side-effects of treatment (44 per cent versus 56 per cent), experienced lower fatigue and said they were suffering less detriment to their general activity (41 per cent versus 59 per cent). They also had lower levels of pain.
Researcher said: “Yoga showed numerically better scores in all aspects of quality of life, which reached statistical significance in domains related to fatigue, emotional score and pain score.
“In overall quality of life, 52 per cent women on yoga showed an improvement from baseline compared to 42 per cent in the control arm.” She said 72 per cent of women reported worsening of pain in the usual care group, while the figure was only 28 per cent in the yoga group.
A researcher said: “This intriguing research suggests that yoga could help alleviate some of the very difficult side-effects following breast cancer treatment, such as pain, fatigue and sleep deprivation.”
A nurse, said: “Fatigue is a problem for many cancer survivors and it can be difficult to know how best to help because it affects people differently. Research like this is important and may help health professionals assist survivors and improve their quality of life.”
Yoga could help alleviate some of the very difficult side-effects following breast cancer treatment, such as fatigue and sleep deprivation.
this is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.
https://gscrochetdesigns.blogspot.com. one can see my crochet creations
https://gseasyrecipes.blogspot.com. feel free to view for easy, simple and healthy recipes
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