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Can yoga combat Multiple Sclerosis?

AIMAN INAM

 

TEHRAN: Scientists from the University of Basel and the Psychiatric University Clinics Basel in a combined research with contemporaries in Iran have noted that by performing yoga and marine exercises habitually, patients can cope with exhaustion, depression and paresthesia.

To observe the effect of yoga and aquatic exercise,  54 women suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS), aged up to 34, have been consigned to one out of three unusual sets.

The study demonstrated that the symptoms of MS have drastically diminished in patients who performed yoga or aquatic exercise. Whilst, some 35 percent depression (from moderate to stern) has increased in non-exercising group.

The researchers reporting the study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise held: “Exercise training programs should be considered in the future as possible complements to standard MS treatments.”

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.