Is one yoga style better than another? A systematic review of associations of yoga style and conclusions in randomized yoga trials

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages 178-187

  Cramer, Holger ^a,b   Lauche, Romy ^a,b   Langhorst, Jost ^a   Dobos, Gustav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementary therapies; Randomized controlled trial; Yoga

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; YOGA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

HUMANS; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; YOGA;

EID: 84960875942     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: 18736963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2016.02.015     Document Type: Review

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