YOGA FOR FIBROMYALGIA
About Yoga for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia sufferers experience widespread pain, sleep disturbance, stiffness, fatigue, headache, and mood disorders.
Yoga, meditation and mindfulness can help get to the root cause of Fibromyalgia by calming an over-active sympathetic nervous system. This makes them a useful fibromyalgia treatment.
Gentle stretches can ease stiff muscles and joints. Slow, deep breathing can encourage relaxation and improves mood and sleep quality, and meditation/mindfulness can enable sufferers to distinguish between the physical pain and the emotional issues around pain, thus improving mood and quality of life.
What the clinical studies say
Yoga
- Alleviates depression
- Decreases cortisol levels
- Improvement in Fibromyalgia
- Impact Questionnaire Revised (FIQR) score
- Improves mood
- Improves quality of life
- Increases work attendance
- Reduces anxiety
- Reduces fatigue
- Reduces pain
- Reduces stiffness
- Alleviates depression
- Improves mood
- Reduces fatigue
- Reduces stiffness
the clinical studies
Yoga
Effects of Yoga and the Addition of Tui Na in Patients with Fibromyalgia
An eight-week yoga intervention is associated with improvements in pain, psychological functioning and mindfulness, and changes in cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia
Meditation
The impact of a meditation-based stress reduction program on fibromyalgia
Efficacy and safety of meditative movement therapies in fibromyalgia syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
A protocol and pilot study for managing fibromyalgia with yoga and meditation
Mindfulness
Mindfulness Meditation for Symptom Reduction in Fibromyalgia: Psychophysiological Correlates
Treating fibromyalgia with mindfulness-based stress reduction: Results from a 3-armed randomized controlled trial
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Sense of Coherence Among Women with Fibromyalgia
Mindfulness meditation alleviates depressive symptoms in women with fibromyalgia: Results of a randomized clinical trial
The efficacy of mindfulness meditation plus Qigong movement therapy in the treatment of fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial.
