Influence of Yoga & Ayurveda on self-rated sleep in a geriatic population

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 683-690

  Manjunath, N K ^a   Telles, Shirley ^a  

^a Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Ayurveda; Geriatric population; Self rated sleep; Yoga

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; YOGA;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA; PIPER; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SLEEP; TERMINALIA; TIME FACTORS; WITHANIA; YOGA;

EID: 20544432222     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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